Recently, CBCGDF has found that many retailers on Pinduoduo (a Chinese e-commerce platform) had sold live crocodiles as pets. We later posted an article "alive crocodiles for sale on Pinduoduo, what is the bottom line?" on Weibo. Recently, we searched again on Pinduoduo and found several products have been off shelves.
However, an e-store selling electric crocodile toys was still demonstrated. We found that the so-called "electric crocodile toys" sold in this store turned out to be live crocodiles, and that the store promised to offer "free shipping of live toys". In addition, it was noticed that three other stores were selling live crocodiles.
If Pinduoduo can see this article, we hope the products listed below can be removed from the shelves:
1. Electric Earthworm Catchers: Large-scale earthworms catch through electricity, with large sales volume, destructive to the land.
2. Wild Saussurea involucrata: an endangered plant under the second-grade state protection
3. Electric Fish Catchers: Large-scale fish catch, with serious ecological impact and banned by the state.
4. Scorpion Lamps: attracting and catching scorpions with light, bad for the ecology
5. Thuja and related products: a plant under the second-grade state protection
6. All kinds of plant roots and wild orchids: Both of them are plants dug from the wild environment, which is environmentally harmful.
7. Hunting tools such as animal traps, spring sleeves, and steel ball slingshots.
8. Yuhua shellfish (Clamaceae): under first- or second-grade state protection
9. Bird Catching Nets: Most bird catching nets use thin and transparent strings, which makes birds and other animals easy to be trapped and difficult to escape.
10. All kinds of wild birds: The platform sells many wild birds, such as larks, magpies, etc.
11. Dried Gecko (great gecko): an animal under the second-grade state protection, which had been removed from the shelves before, but now Pinduoduo has begun to sell it again.
These are the 11 products that we found on Pinduoduo that should be removed from the shelves. If you find other products that are illegally sold or should be removed, you can also leave a message or contact us via WeChat: ishghy.
We call for Pinduoduo to remove these products, assume its social responsibilities, and reduce public safety hazards. The removal of these products will help us protect related wild animals and promote ecological civilization.
Translator/Yue Zhang
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