Can domesticated animals and wild animals be perfectly distinguished? The case of illegal hunting of spotted seal cubs that shocked the whole country in early 2019 involved seven aquariums. Most of these enterprises had certificates and could legally raise and breed spotted seal. But those animals actually were captured illegally in the wild. This is the so-called "poaching whitewashing".

As long as you have a certificate in your hand, the wild spotted seal will immediately become a "domesticated breeding individual". How to solve this problem?

Recently, at the 2021 "Two Sessions" Motions/Proposals Meeting held by CBCDGF, Han Yang, head of the Anti-Poaching Group of Let Migratory Birds Fly, pointed out that there was no technology or technique to distinguish "wild" and "domesticated" wild animals at present, and it was impossible to effectively distinguish them from each other in terms of management system. It was obviously unscientific, unreasonable and not rigorous to determine whether a wild animal was "domesticated " or "wild" only by relying on a certificate from the forestry department and the agricultural and rural department. Therefore, this matter should be approached with consideration.

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