NE China Province Banning Hunting of Wild Animals

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NE China Province Banning Hunting of Wild Animals

Northeast China's Liaoning Province has instituted a five-year ban on hunting as part of plans to better protect local wild animals.

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Northeast China's Liaoning Province has instituted a five-year ban on hunting as part of plans to better protect local wild animals.

The ban will become effective on Oct. 1 this year, according tothe provincial Forestry Bureau.

The ban targets hunting of any species of terrestrial animals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, said Qiu Yingjie, an official in charge of wild animal protection in the Forestry Bureau, on Thursday.

Qiu said the province launched a ban on animal hunting between 1987 and 1993. By the middle of the 1990s, the number of wild animals such as black bears, wild boar, roe deer, pheasants and hares had increased markedly.

More than 20 departments of the provincial government have vowed to make concerted efforts to guarantee the implementation ofthe ban.

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