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  3. Coronavirus, China plans penalties for wildlife trade

Coronavirus, China plans penalties for wildlife trade

May 22, 2020

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  • A protester holds a sign standing in front T & S Live Poultry as PETA holds a protest urging closures to live-animal markets in order to stop animal-borne diseases from spreading in New York City on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The Coronavirus is believed to have originated in a wet market in China, where live and dead animals were sold for food. NYP20200421115 JOHNxANGELILLO

    A protester holds a sign standing in front T & S Live Poultry as PETA holds a protest urging closures to live-animal markets in order to stop animal-borne diseases from spreading in New York City on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The Coronavirus is believed to have originated in a wet market in China, where live and dead animals were sold for food. NYP20200421115 JOHNxANGELILLO

  • In the market town of Indiana you can buy alligator or crocodile meat, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru. Peru Copyright: xSergixReboredox SRE-034-BJ1081

    In the market town of Indiana you can buy alligator or crocodile meat, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru. Peru Copyright: xSergixReboredox SRE-034-BJ1081

  • Uyghur men look over sheep lined up for sale in Kashgar Sunday market, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China, Asia Copyright: AnniexOwen 805-1391 Editorial Use Only

    Uyghur men look over sheep lined up for sale in Kashgar Sunday market, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China, Asia Copyright: AnniexOwen 805-1391 Editorial Use Only

  • 20 04 2009, Tomohon, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Asia At the traditional meat market in Tomohon, roasted fruit bats and giant bats are offered for consumption. Bats are considered to be transmitters and hosts of pathogens and after the outbreak of coronavirus a general ban on trade and sale of wild animals is being discussed

    20 04 2009, Tomohon, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Asia At the traditional meat market in Tomohon, roasted fruit bats and giant bats are offered for consumption. Bats are considered to be transmitters and hosts of pathogens and after the outbreak of coronavirus a general ban on trade and sale of wild animals is being discussed

  • 20 04 2009, Tomohon, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Asia At the traditional meat market in Tomohon, roasted fruit bats and giant bats are offered for consumption. Bats are considered to be transmitters and hosts of pathogens and after the outbreak of coronavirus a general ban on trade and sale of wild animals is being discussed

    20 04 2009, Tomohon, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Asia At the traditional meat market in Tomohon, roasted fruit bats and giant bats are offered for consumption. Bats are considered to be transmitters and hosts of pathogens and after the outbreak of coronavirus a general ban on trade and sale of wild animals is being discussed

  • Shark Fins - Hong Kong Market Copyright: KurtxAmsler 10750350

    Shark Fins - Hong Kong Market Copyright: KurtxAmsler 10750350

  • 09 12 2017 Hong Kong Hong Kong CHN Hon

    09 12 2017 Hong Kong Hong Kong CHN Hon

  • Food at the Donghuamen Night Market near Wangfujing Street in Beijing, China. BEW1D215F1C

    Food at the Donghuamen Night Market near Wangfujing Street in Beijing, China. BEW1D215F1C

  • Indonesia: The coconut pickers monkey A monkey helped harvest and husking the coconut. Long-tailed monkeys or long-tailed macaque in Pariaman, not just animals that live in the wild, but these monkeys are also utilized by the local community as a means to harvest coconuts. These monkeys are captured from the wild and sold in the livestock market. Once purchased by its new master, the long-tailed monkey must went through a very long training process before they graduate and ready to pluck coconuts. During this training process, very often the monkeys had to endure pain and subjected to abuse from the owner. Indonesia AndrixMardiansyah

    Indonesia: The coconut pickers monkey A monkey helped harvest and husking the coconut. Long-tailed monkeys or long-tailed macaque in Pariaman, not just animals that live in the wild, but these monkeys are also utilized by the local community as a means to harvest coconuts. These monkeys are captured from the wild and sold in the livestock market. Once purchased by its new master, the long-tailed monkey must went through a very long training process before they graduate and ready to pluck coconuts. During this training process, very often the monkeys had to endure pain and subjected to abuse from the owner. Indonesia AndrixMardiansyah

  • CHENGDU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 23: Cats are rescued from bags at Banzhuyuan Town on November 23, 2016 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. Fake cat lover Huang Pingfu bought over 100 live cats from cat catchers everyday. He would picked out a few precious breeds to raise in a decorated house for cats only and then sale them for money. The rest cats would be killed and sold as rabbits, civets and other wild animals in Sichuan or Guangxi. Chengdu food and drug administration, local public security bureau, local market and quality supervision commission, local animal husbandry bureau investigated treated Huang s cat business on Nov 22. CFP496242017

    CHENGDU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 23: Cats are rescued from bags at Banzhuyuan Town on November 23, 2016 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. Fake cat lover Huang Pingfu bought over 100 live cats from cat catchers everyday. He would picked out a few precious breeds to raise in a decorated house for cats only and then sale them for money. The rest cats would be killed and sold as rabbits, civets and other wild animals in Sichuan or Guangxi. Chengdu food and drug administration, local public security bureau, local market and quality supervision commission, local animal husbandry bureau investigated treated Huang s cat business on Nov 22. CFP496242017

  • CHENGDU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 23: Dead cats are found and collected in the basket at Banzhuyuan Town on November 23, 2016 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. Fake cat lover Huang Pingfu bought over 100 live cats from cat catchers everyday. He would picked out a few precious breeds to raise in a decorated house for cats only and then sale them for money. The rest cats would be killed and sold as rabbits, civets and other wild animals in Sichuan or Guangxi. Chengdu food and drug administration, local public security bureau, local market and quality supervision commission, local animal husbandry bureau investigated treated Huang s cat business on Nov 22. CFP496242013

    CHENGDU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 23: Dead cats are found and collected in the basket at Banzhuyuan Town on November 23, 2016 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. Fake cat lover Huang Pingfu bought over 100 live cats from cat catchers everyday. He would picked out a few precious breeds to raise in a decorated house for cats only and then sale them for money. The rest cats would be killed and sold as rabbits, civets and other wild animals in Sichuan or Guangxi. Chengdu food and drug administration, local public security bureau, local market and quality supervision commission, local animal husbandry bureau investigated treated Huang s cat business on Nov 22. CFP496242013

  • Oct 04, 2009 - Guangzhou, Guandong, China - Animal rights activist Feng Minghe and Head of South China Nature Society, records the number of endangered Turtles traded at Huadiwan Market. There are 300 million Turtles sold each year in china, worth an estimated 750 Million (USD).Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a health care system that treats patients with plant, animal, and mineral remedies. With over 2,000 years, TCM has acquired a list in excess of 1,500 animals, many of which are endangered. - ZUMAth1_

    Oct 04, 2009 - Guangzhou, Guandong, China - Animal rights activist Feng Minghe and Head of South China Nature Society, records the number of endangered Turtles traded at Huadiwan Market. There are 300 million Turtles sold each year in china, worth an estimated 750 Million (USD).Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a health care system that treats patients with plant, animal, and mineral remedies. With over 2,000 years, TCM has acquired a list in excess of 1,500 animals, many of which are endangered. - ZUMAth1_

  • GUANGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 07: (CHINA OUT) Police ferret out an illegal breeding base in a residential block which nearby a Pets and Plants Market on November 7, 2013 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province of China. Policeman found that this apartment have a large number of tree lizards, snakes, spiders and yellow side neck turtles which at least 105 in total. CFP445803332

    GUANGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 07: (CHINA OUT) Police ferret out an illegal breeding base in a residential block which nearby a Pets and Plants Market on November 7, 2013 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province of China. Policeman found that this apartment have a large number of tree lizards, snakes, spiders and yellow side neck turtles which at least 105 in total. CFP445803332

  • (110619) -- BEIJING, Jun. 19, 2011 (Xinhua) -- A police officer demonstrates confiscated drugs in Beijing, capital of China, June 19, 2011. A batch of drugs, with a worth of 260 million yuan (40.2 million dollars) on the black market, was destroyed in Beijing on Sunday. Weighing 489.39kg in total, the batch of drugs, including heroin, methamphetamine, ecstacy pills, coccaine and marijuana, was confiscated by the police in Beijing in 2008 and 2009 as crime evidences. (Xinhua Zhang Yu) (lmm) CHINA-BEIJING-DRUG DESTRUCTION (CN)

    (110619) -- BEIJING, Jun. 19, 2011 (Xinhua) -- A police officer demonstrates confiscated drugs in Beijing, capital of China, June 19, 2011. A batch of drugs, with a worth of 260 million yuan (40.2 million dollars) on the black market, was destroyed in Beijing on Sunday. Weighing 489.39kg in total, the batch of drugs, including heroin, methamphetamine, ecstacy pills, coccaine and marijuana, was confiscated by the police in Beijing in 2008 and 2009 as crime evidences. (Xinhua Zhang Yu) (lmm) CHINA-BEIJING-DRUG DESTRUCTION (CN)

  • (100817) -- BOZHOU (ANHUI), Aug. 17, 2010 (Xinhua) -- Two officials of local commerce and industry bureau inspect radix paeoniae alba at a Chinese herbal market in Shijiuli Town of Bozhou City in east China s Anhui Province, Aug. 17, 2010. As radix paeoniae alba came into season, local farmers who produce herbal drugs gathered at the market and sold their products here. Shijiuli is dubbed as town of radix paeoniae alba , where some 4,000 people go in for trade in Chinese herbal drugs. (Xinhua Zhang Yanlin) CHINA-ANHUI-RADIX PAEONIAE ALBA-TRADE (CN)

    (100817) -- BOZHOU (ANHUI), Aug. 17, 2010 (Xinhua) -- Two officials of local commerce and industry bureau inspect radix paeoniae alba at a Chinese herbal market in Shijiuli Town of Bozhou City in east China s Anhui Province, Aug. 17, 2010. As radix paeoniae alba came into season, local farmers who produce herbal drugs gathered at the market and sold their products here. Shijiuli is dubbed as town of radix paeoniae alba , where some 4,000 people go in for trade in Chinese herbal drugs. (Xinhua Zhang Yanlin) CHINA-ANHUI-RADIX PAEONIAE ALBA-TRADE (CN)

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