Establishment and Perfection of the Crime of Endangering Precious and Endangered Wild Animals

The crime of endangering precious and endangered wild animals is a new crime coming into effect from March 1, 2021.The establishment of this crime not only improves the public awareness of this crime and the convenience of judicial application, but also solves the confusion and difficulties in judicial practice as to whether the original crime needs to be punished for multiple crimes and the selection of the crime, which is of considerably positive significance. However, the nature of artificially bred wild animals, the characterization of the carcasses and organs of precious and endangered wild animals, and the determination of the subjective "knowledge" of the perpetrator of the act still need to be further discussed and clarified. The nature of artificially bred wild animals should be further clarified through typological provisions, and it needs to clarify that wild animal carcasses and organs are wild animal products and optimize the presumption process of the subjective "knowledge" of the object of the act, in order to further promote the scientific and perfect protection of the criminal law of precious and endangered wildlife resources.