To Protect the Pangolins | CBCGDF Sued the National Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Department of Forestry of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Beijing Today
2018/12/13 19:53:00 本站

Today, CBCGDF officially filed an administrative lawsuit with the People’s Court of Dongcheng District, Beijing. The defendants were the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, and the Department of Forestry of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. CBCGDF believes that the Department of Forestry of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region provided false information in the reply to the information disclosure request about the 33 living pangolins seized by the Customs in August 2017 and did not fully respond to the information requested by the plaintiff. The National Forestry and Grassland Administration did not fully perform its duties of clearing facts and comprehensively reviewing and made an administrative reconsideration decision to maintain the public information reply of the Department of Forestry of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in case of unclear facts and insufficient evidence. The administrative actions of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Department of Forestry of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region clearly lack legal basis.

 

As a national environmental public welfare organization, CBCGDF has been actively carrying out rescuing work on pangolins. However, the two defendants, as the state's administrative organs, perfunctory the CBCGDF's efforts to explore the truth and participate in the protection of endangered species. CBCGDF filed an administrative lawsuit in accordance with the provisions of “Administrative Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China”.

 

The claim includes:

 

1.    Request the Department of Forestry of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region revoke the “Letter of the Department of Forestry of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Re-replying the Information Disclosure Application” submitted by the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation on April 12, 2018 (Guilin Letter2018No. 914);

 

2.    Request to revoke the administrative reconsideration decision made by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (Lin Fu Zi [2018] No. 76);

 

3.    Request the Department of Forestry of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to re-reply to the CBCGDF application for information disclosure submitted to it on April 12, 2018;

 

4.    Request the legal costs of this case were borne by the two defendants.


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(Photo credit: CBCGDF)


Original Chinese version is written by Sophia