Reporter: Hello, Director Guan. Thank you very much for our telephone interview, March 3 is World Wildlife Day, please briefly introduce the theme of World Wildlife Day 2020 and its origin.
Guan Jianfeng: March 3, 2020 is the seventh World Wildlife Day, and this year's theme is "Preserving All Life on Earth", while China's theme is "Preserving the Global Community of Life". On December 20, 2013, the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly declared March 3 as World Wildlife Day to raise awareness of the world's wildlife. This day also marks the signing of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973. World Wildlife Day has quickly become the world's most important annual wildlife event. World Wildlife Day celebrates the beauty and diversity of wildlife and also provides an opportunity to raise public awareness and increase public understanding of the many benefits of wildlife conservation to people. This international day also reminds us of the need to increase efforts to combat wildlife crime and reduce human-caused species declines, which can have negative economic, environmental and social impacts.
Reporter: In the special period of the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control, around the World Wildlife Day, Changde City Forestry Bureau will carry out what activities?
Guan Jianfeng: the protection of wildlife, the national level attaches great importance. February 24, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress promulgated the "decision on a comprehensive ban on illegal wildlife trade, eradicate the bad habit of indiscriminate consumption of wildlife, and effectively protect the lives and health of the people"; February 27, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration issued seven measures to implement the "decision" and knowledge of relevant laws and regulations, requiring Crack down on indiscriminate hunting, illegal trade in wildlife and other activities, resolutely outlaw illegal wildlife markets, a comprehensive overhaul of wildlife breeding and operation and utilization of institutions, and strictly regulate the approval of non-edible use of wildlife activities, etc.
Taking the World Wildlife Day as an opportunity, the Municipal Forestry Bureau will carry out a series of wildlife protection science and publicity activities throughout the year to raise public awareness of wildlife protection, especially among young people, to achieve harmony between human beings and nature, to maintain the natural ecological balance, to protect biodiversity, to prevent major public health risks, to protect people's life and health safety, to promote ecological civilization and to build a beautiful Changde.
On the day of World Wildlife Day, we joined hands with the People's Government of Wuling District to carry out activities to promote the knowledge of wildlife protection volunteers into the community, distribute leaflets on wildlife protection knowledge to the public, launch the latest wildlife protection knowledge and laws and regulations on the micro letter public number of the Municipal Forestry Bureau, publish wildlife protection related knowledge on the local mainstream media, and broadcast on the radio "On the Protection of Wildlife Initiative" and other activities to raise public awareness of wildlife protection.
Reporter: Since the COVID-19 outbreak, wildlife protection has attracted widespread attention from the community, what has the Municipal Forestry Bureau done in this regard?
Guan Jianfeng: Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Municipal Forestry Bureau has carried out a series of epidemic prevention and control work in a timely and strict manner.
January 23, the Provincial Forestry Bureau issued an emergency notice "one control four strictly prohibited", the Municipal Forestry Bureau immediately issued a document, the first time the spirit of the notice reached every wildlife operators and artificial breeding households, a comprehensive seal control isolated artificial breeding sites, strictly prohibit wildlife trading, and the organization of forest public security, forestry Law enforcement officers to seal artificial breeding sites, markets, hotels, bazaars for sampling, inspection; crack down on illegal hunting, business use of wildlife.
City Forestry Bureau set up three inspection groups, the city's "one control four strictly prohibited" implementation of supervision and inspection, to prevent lax paralysis and other phenomena; to carry out research, and actively explore the transformation of wildlife breeding industry to the road of production.
Through a series of measures, up to now, all wild animals in the city's 365 breeding farms issued with artificial breeding licenses and 35 unlicensed breeding farms have been sealed and isolated, with 44.8 million animals (strips and heads) sealed and controlled, including 38.4 million frogs, 6 million toads, more than 340,000 snakes and 19,690 bamboo rats; the city's forestry system has deployed 8,044 law enforcement officers to inspect The city's forestry system has deployed 8,044 law enforcement officers, inspected 400 artificial breeding sites, closed 3 wildlife exhibition sites, handled 26 administrative cases, seized and confiscated 164 wild animals and their products; the city's monitoring stations at all levels have deployed 1,648 patrols and patrolled 9,513 kilometers.
Reporter: In terms of wildlife protection, what are the key tasks of the Municipal Forestry Bureau in the next phase?
Guan Jianfeng: Wildlife protection is a continuous long-term process, but also the subject of our continuous research and exploration. In the next phase, the Municipal Forestry Bureau will focus on the following tasks.
In-depth study and understanding of the National People's Congress Standing Committee promulgated the "decision on a comprehensive ban on illegal wildlife trade, eradicate the bad habit of indiscriminate consumption of wild animals, and effectively protect the lives and health of the people" spirit, and based on the State Forestry and Grassland Administration issued seven measures to raise the political stance, strengthen responsibility; crack down on indiscriminate hunting, illegal trade in wildlife and other acts, resolutely outlaw illegal wildlife Market, a comprehensive overhaul of the artificial breeding and operation of wildlife institutions, the region all for food purposes engaged in artificial breeding of wild animals, the operation of institutions, a thorough inspection and reorganization; stop accepting applications for hunting and operating wildlife for food purposes, and strictly regulate the approval of non-edible use of wildlife activities; strengthen the use of non-edible wildlife To strengthen the follow-up supervision of non-edible use of wildlife activities, prevent abuse, abuse and other inappropriate ways, and resolutely eliminate the use of legal channels to engage in illegal trading activities and food; actively play the role of various types of wildlife protection social groups, public welfare organizations and the majority of volunteers as a bridge, encourage and guide the public to consciously resist, take the initiative to report the indiscriminate use of wildlife, the formation of government-led, community-wide participation, and common eradication of indiscriminate use of wildlife The new situation of the government-led, social participation, and common efforts to eliminate the indiscriminate consumption of wild animals.
Wildlife is our friend, protecting wildlife is protecting ourselves, let's work together to build a beautiful home where people and nature live together in harmony!