No Touching, Buying and Eating of Wild Animals

Wild animals refer to all kinds of animals that live in a natural environment without artificial rearing. Many wild animals carry multiple viruses that can be transmitted to humans through contact. Viruses like AIDS, Lyme disease, Ebola virus, Hendra virus, monkey pox, SARS, MERS, and novel coronavirus can spread to humans through wild animals.

China promulgated the Law on the Protection of Wildlife in 1988, which prohibits the sale, purchase and utilization of wildlife that are under special state protection and their products, and prohibits the production and sale of food made of wildlife that are under special state protection and their products, or of food made of wildlife that are not under special state protection and their products without proof of legal source.

After the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the prominent problem of eating wild animals and the huge potential dangers to public health have aroused wide concerns. On February 24, the 16th plenary meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress decided to thoroughly ban illegal wildlife trade and break the bad habit of eating wild animals, so as to effectively guarantee the safety of the people's lives. This decision provided strong legislative guarantee to safeguard public health and ecological security and to protect people's lives and health. For the sake of human health, people must not touch, hunt, sell, buy, process, or eat wild animals.

不接觸、購買和食用野生動物

野生動物是指所有非經(jīng)人工飼養(yǎng)而生活于自然環(huán)境下的各種動物。許多野生動物帶有多種病毒,如果人與之接觸,可能將病毒傳播給人類。如艾滋病、萊姆病、埃博拉病毒、亨德拉病毒、猴痘、SARS、MERS以及新冠病毒等,都是通過野生動物傳播到人類。

中國早在1988年就頒布了《中華人民共和國野生動物保護法》,規(guī)定禁止出售、購買、利用國家重點保護野生動物及其制品,禁止生產(chǎn)、經(jīng)營使用國家重點保護野生動物及其制品制作的食品,或者使用沒有合法來源證明的非國家重點保護野生動物及其制品制作的食品。

新冠肺炎疫情發(fā)生以來,濫食野生動物的突出問題及其對公共衛(wèi)生安全構(gòu)成的巨大隱患,引起社會廣泛關(guān)注。2020年2月24日,第十三屆全國人民代表大會常務(wù)委員會第十六次全體會議通過全面禁止非法野生動物交易、革除濫食野生動物陋習(xí)、切實保障人民群眾生命安全的決定,為維護公共衛(wèi)生安全和生態(tài)安全,保障人民群眾生命健康安全提供有力的立法保障。為了人類健康,個人不要接觸、捕獵、販賣、購買、加工、食用野生動物。