This is a warning, the fight to protect wildlife is not only in the deep forest, but right in residential areas, restaurants and even "high-class" drinking tables.
40 civets, blue peacocks, white peacocks, pheasants, pheasants... were locked in the middle of the city. Among them, there are peacocks belonging to group IB - endangered, precious and rare species that are prioritized for strict protection.
It is worth mentioning that the subject knew clearly about the prohibition of captivity from the end of 2021 but still intentionally kept it for many years.
That is no longer lack of understanding, but disregard for the law.
If not handled strictly, such illegal "mini zoos" will continue to spring up in residential areas. Wild animals will continue to be pulled from the forest to the city, becoming commodities, hobbies, and snacks.
Behind each animal locked up is a whole line of hunting, transporting, and consuming. Without buyers, there will be no hunters, no eaters, and no animal traps stretched all over the forest.
But sadly, for a long time, in a part of society, there has been a distorted mentality: eating wild animals to show "class". Having money, you have to eat strange things. The more rare, the more "stylish". It is that "fake nobility" that has facilitated crimes against nature.
A Java pangolin discovered slaughtered in the kitchen of Hoa Nhan An Restaurant in Nha Trang last March raised a burning question, how many other pangolins have been on the drinking table before?
And not only pangolins, how many other precious birds, precious animals, and wild animals have been butchered in restaurants disguised as "specialties"?
No one can count it, only know that each "forest meat" drinking party is another stab wound to biodiversity.
Don't think that protecting wildlife is the job of forest rangers in the deep forest.
The place that determines the survival of many species is in the city, where there are buyers, consuming restaurants and those who make money from precious animals.
Therefore, it is necessary to thoroughly crack down on illegal farming facilities in residential areas, and strictly handle restaurants that slaughter, process, and advertise wild animal meat.
It is necessary to investigate the entire line of supplying, transporting, and legalizing papers.
When the law is strict enough, people will be afraid and change their perceptions.
And if eating wild animal meat is still considered "normal", keeping precious birds in captivity is still considered "play", then the forests will continue to be silent about wild animals.
Protecting wildlife is not an environmental slogan, but protecting life, protecting ecological balance and protecting the human future itself.
