Off the menu: China moves to protect endangered species

Curbing China’s hunger for wild game is just the starting point of the battle against illegal poaching according to the people who advocates or acts for the protection and preservation of the environment and wildlife.

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) explained the laws of the country on the unauthorized wildlife trade. Person who is proven guilty of eating endangered species or buys them for other intentions is sentenced by up to ten years imprisonment according to state-run news agency Xinhua.

China has four hundred twenty animals which were listed on the official preserved endangered species such as giant panda and golden monkey.

Most species on the list were market illegally for their meat and organs and considered expensive food and valued extremely for their generally assumed medicinal properties.

Domestic to China, the seriously at risk of extinction pangolin can be found on the list of dishes available in a restaurant selling it for as much as three hundred twenty four dollars per dish.

The high price connected in consuming on endangered species means the menus are possessions that is taken to indicate high social or professional status..

Today, those craving for a taste of the endangered wildlife will have to consider a course of action carefully before taking a bite.

Z. Li