The man spent 750 yuan to buy a pet fox as a gift for the young man He, whose girlfriend lives in Hejiang, Sichuan. By chance, he found that there were foxes on the online shopping platform, and the little foxes were particularly cute. He spent 750 yuan to buy one for his girlfriend, but it was such a little fox that made He a criminal.
After arriving at the case, he admitted to buying a fox, but he was puzzled. How can he be identified as a crime by the public security organs because he bought a fox on a regular shopping platform? So, does He's behavior constitute a crime?
He's behavior constitutes a crime of endangering precious and endangered wild animals, including the national first-and second-class protected wild animals listed in the National List of Key Protected Wild Animals. He admitted the fact that he bought a fox. He bought a red fox, which belongs to the national second-class protected wild animal. He bought it privately to feed it, which has constituted a crime of endangering precious and endangered wild animals.
Protecting wild animals is the responsibility of every citizen. Don't keep the red fox at home just because it is cute, like He in this case, which makes it lose its ability to survive in the wild and affects the stability of the ecosystem.
Crime of Endangering Rare and Endangered Wild Animals Article 341 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Whoever illegally hunts and kills rare and endangered wild animals under special state protection, or illegally buys, transports or sells rare and endangered wild animals under special state protection and their products shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years and shall also be fined or confiscated.