It's a wild life out there

By Zhang Lei | China Daily | Updated: 2020-02-21 15:53
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Green peacock, Yunnan province, 2017 [Photo by Xi Zhinong/Wild China Film]


Xi concludes from the document: "The market is the hub of the wildlife trade. Focusing on reducing illegal trade, or in some cases eliminating it, is an effective way of reducing the risk of to humans, livestock, wildlife and the ecosystem."

After the SARS outbreak in 2003, keeping wildlife off dining tables was widely discussed. Zhang Jinshuo, of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, once helped trace the source of SARS wildlife, and confirmed with other researchers that the source of the SARS virus was bats, in particular, Chinese chrysanthemum bats.

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