Illegal buying and selling ivory products actors should be criminal responsibility and civil compensation liability

Xinwang, August 12 (Reporter Wang Qi, correspondent Chen Xiao) "I am a handicraft, eat with craftsmanship, and also commit lawy?" "This is a small gadget sold on the Internet, and also committed the law?" "This is really possible! For example, Zhang ... "Recently, the Laoshan District Procuratorate filed a criminal lawsuit and civil public interest lawsuit at the same time, which caused a lot of shock in the sculpture circle.

Asian and African elephants are endangered wildlife stipulated in the state. Zhang was sentenced to one year in prison for acquisition and sale of precious and endangered wildlife products, two years of probation, and a fine of 20,000 yuan.

Elephant loses its teeth, it affects the survival of elephants and population reproduction, and loses its life. It causes sustainability and irreversible damage to the function of the ecological environment service and the ecological environment, which harms the public interest of the society. While the perpetrators bear criminal liability, they must also bear civil liability for ecological losses.

"How to pay this ecological loss? The elephant has no ivory, maybe die, or maybe not die?" Some citizens asked questions. The reporter learned that the "Rules for the Public interest proceedings of the People's Procuratorate" stipulates that this situation can clarify ecological losses in the way of expert opinions, that is, the functional loss of ecological environment service.

Experts believe that ecological losses involving ivory and its products can be calculated with reference to the value of ivory and its products. In this case, the court's judgment of Zhang's behavior caused by the value of the product compared to the value of the product is 48,000 yuan.

One year in prison, 20,000 fines, and 48,000 yuan of ecological compensation, Zhang's lesson can be described as painful! The number of more than 20 jewelry purchases has not yet constituted a crime due to the small amount, but it will also bear legal liability such as administrative penalties and compensation for ecological service functional losses.

Prosecutors said that although we are far away from elephants, the protection of elephants is also closely related to us. Raboh pocking behavior, seriously threatened the survival of elephants. "

26 million years ago, there were more than 400 types of elephants on the planet, but now there are only three types of genus: Asian elephants, African grassland phenomena, African forests, and they are being severely threatened. On average, every 15 minutes, they are, just, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are every 15 minutes. There is a elephant being hunted, and the survival situation has deteriorated.

In order to protect elephants, on August 12, 2012, the first world elephant day was officially established, and it is exactly the 10th anniversary. According to my country's "Notice on Orderly Stopping Commercial Processing Sales and Products and Products Activities", starting from January 1, 2018, the transactions of any ivory products in China are illegal, and even constitute criminal crimes. At the same time Criminal fines and compensation for loss of ecological service function.

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