People eating wild animals again in Guangdong

时间：2007-02-25 01:39:07

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Chinanews, Beijing, Feb. 17 – According to Guangming Daily, eating wild animals has surfaced again in Guangzhou and some other places in Guangdong. Animals like masked palm civets, pangolins, lizards1, ants and snakes.

 

Chu Guozhong, chief expert of animal protection from Chinese Academy of Forestry2 (CAF), said eating wild animals has once again become common in these places. This phenomenon means that people have learned little from the SARS epidemic3 in 2003.

 

Qian Fawen, a researcher from CAF, said that scientific research finds that some 65-75% of illnesses are derived4 from animals. He stressed that as some wild animals are inedible5, which people who eat them may easily be infected by virus existing on animals.

 

Recently several criminal suspects who had sold wild animals to restaurants illegally were arrested in Guangzhou. Local police reveals that since March 2006, more than 70 thousand national-protected animals have been captured, and now 304 criminals have been arrested.

 
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1 lizards 9e3fa64f20794483b9c33d06297dcbfb     
n.蜥蜴( lizard的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Nothing lives in Pompeii except crickets and beetles and lizards. 在庞培城里除了蟋蟀、甲壳虫和蜥蜴外，没有别的生物。 来自辞典例句
  • Can lizards reproduce their tails? 蜥蜴的尾巴断了以后能再生吗？ 来自辞典例句
2 forestry 8iBxk     
n.森林学；林业
参考例句：
  • At present, the Chinese forestry is being at a significant transforming period. 当前, 我国的林业正处于一个重大的转折时期。
  • Anhua is one of the key forestry counties in Hunan province. 安化县是湖南省重点林区县之一。
3 epidemic 5iTzz     
n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的
参考例句：
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
4 derived 6cddb7353e699051a384686b6b3ff1e2     
vi.起源；由来；衍生；导出v.得到( derive的过去式和过去分词 )；（从…中）得到获得；源于；（从…中）提取
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  • Many English words are derived from Latin and Greek. 英语很多词源出于拉丁文和希腊文。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He derived his enthusiasm for literature from his father. 他对文学的爱好是受他父亲的影响。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 inedible PQQzU     
adj.不能吃的，不宜食用的
参考例句：
  • The food was totally inedible.食物完全无法下咽。
  • These chemicals make the fruit inedible.这些化学品使这种水果不宜食用。

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