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Koronaviruset comes from the wild animals. The first man was probably infected after contact with a wild animal, or after contact with an infected domestic animals that had received the disease from a wild animal.
food market in China have received much of the blame for koronakrisen. On some of them sold it pangoliner and other wild animals as a medicine or for its exclusive meat.
because of koronaviruset came the chinese authorities recently with a ban on the purchase and sale of wild animals for food. Both the animals that are trapped, and the animals which are bred up.
But the new rules have an important exception: It should still be allowed to use wild animals to among other things, fur, pets, and medicinal purposes. This, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society that have analyzed the provision that came from the chinese authorities 24. February.
New regulations from the Chinese government shut down on the sale of wild animals.
Photo: Screenshot gov.cn/xinwen Thinks the ban is “cosmetic”
Kriminolog Ragnhild Sollund, University of Oslo, has conducted research on the trade with wild animals.
She thinks it chinese prohibition seems “cosmetic”.
– I do not think that this koronaviruset get chinese people or other asians to stop such practices, the use of wild animals for food, clothing and medicines, ” she says.
And with it the conditions will still be favorable for a new contagious virus could spread.
Ragnhild Sollund, professor of criminology at the University of Oslo.
Photo: Per Jørgen Ystehede / Private
the Professor gets the support from member of parliament and naturfilmskaper, Arne Nævra (SV).
– It does not go far enough.
– There are three strong reasons to stop this business: dyrevelferdsgrunner, prevent disease transmission and stop trading with the critical belief animals, ” he says.
Arne Nævra is a biologist and nature photographer in addition to stortingspolitiker for the SV.
Photo: Private China’s embassy: Also stricter when it comes to medicine
There are only a few in China who eat wild animals, according to a rundspørring from Peking university.
The chinese embassy in Oslo, writes in an e-mail to NRK that traditional chinese medicine uses ingredients from animals, but that most of medicine is based on herbs.
They also write that the chinese authorities have tightened the regulations regarding the use of wild animals for medicine. Illegal hunting, killing, and smuggling are punished.
It is also trading with dyredeler to have a healing effect.
Read the complete answer from the embassy at the bottom of the case.
Huge sums of money in circulation
the Trade with wild mammals takes place the most in South east Asia and parts of Africa, according to an article in the journal Science.
The global legal trade in wild animals and plants are worth about 86 billion euros a year, according to the Dutch kriminologen Daan P. van Uhm.
It is even more difficult to calculate the value of the illegal trade, but the CITES and Traffic estimate that it represents between 7 and 23 billion dollars annually (see the facts).
Predicts the global settlement
Arne Nævra predict a global settlement with this trade.
– the international community will push on when koronakrisen to be evaluated.
Possibly, the united nations and the World health organization to take the lead and finally get in place a ban on the trade of wild animals, ” he says.
Ragnhild Sollund also believe that countries should go along to ban all trade with wild animals.
– It is easier to enforce a total ban than a partial legalization. This is because of the problem of parallel legal and illicit markets, where the illegal products and animals can be washed into the legal market, ” says Sollund.
Pangolin and other wild animals sold at a market in Libreville, Gabon, west Africa.
Photo: STEEVE JORDAN / STEEVE JORDAN Believes Norway must tell
Nævra and Sollund believes the government should get on the path.
– Norway should say to China that by continuing this business puts the species in danger of extinction and they should at least not allow the import of such goods go smoothly. In addition, Norway should speak up about that we do not accept that China puts the health of the entire world in danger by continuing this harmful exploitation of animals, ” says Sollund.
NRK made contact with the Prime minister’s office, but we were referred to the ministry of Foreign affairs. They referred further to the ministry of Agriculture and food who said the following:
“the Chinese government sets the national requirements they find relevant to deal with the ongoing situation in China.”
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