Source: People’s Daily
This newspaper, Beijing, April 11 (Reporters Ni Yi, Jin Xin) The Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate recently issued the “Applicable Law on Handling Criminal Cases of Destruction of Wildlife Resources” Interpretation of Certain Issues (hereinafter referred to as the Interpretation). The “Interpretation” aims at the new situation and new problems of the crime of destroying wildlife resources, from the judicial link, to promote the whole chain to punish the crime of destroying wildlife resources, and provide a strong judicial guarantee for promoting the construction of ecological civilization.
The crime of destroying wildlife resources involves the crime of smuggling precious animals and precious animal products, the crime of illegal fishing of aquatic products, the crime of endangering precious and endangered wild animals, the crime of illegal hunting, the crime of illegally hunting, purchasing, transporting and selling land Offences such as the crime of living wild animals. In the past, judicial interpretations stipulated the standards for conviction and sentencing of relevant crimes according to the number of animals involved, and practice reflects that there are problems that cannot fully adapt to the complex circumstances of the case. In this regard, the “Interpretation” adjusts the standards for conviction and sentencing for crimes of destroying wildlife resources. The crime of destroying wildlife resources is no longer based on quantity theory, but instead takes value as the basic standard for conviction and sentencing, so as to better reflect the requirements of the principle of adapting guilt and punishment. .
At present, the crime of destroying wildlife resources has formed an interest chain of “fishing/hunting-purchasing-selling”. In judicial practice, it is not only necessary to punish the front-end illegal fishing and hunting links, but also punish the follow-up. the sale of stolen goods. Based on this, the Interpretation makes it clear that those who purchase or sell illegally caught aquatic products or illegally hunted wild animals shall be convicted and punished for the crime of covering up or concealing the proceeds of crime. “People’s Daily” (11 edition on April 12, 2022)