Can you buy a giant panda as a pet?

“When can I raise a giant panda!!!”
"Can you buy a giant panda as a pet?"
"How can I adopt a giant panda as a pet?"
"Can I keep giant pandas as pets in China?"
"Can wild giant pandas be kept at home?"

Pandas are round, soft and fluffy. Many people want to raise a giant panda with its own "cute" attributes. If a "stray" giant panda is found on the mountain road in China, they cannot bear to let it go. Is it okay to take it home as a pet if it strays?

The answer is: No and it is illegal.

1. First of all, giant pandas are not cats, they are bears. Giant pandas in the wild are extremely ferocious and dangerous. They can really hunt animals. As omnivorous animals, giant pandas are not vegetarians!

2. Secondly, the feeding conditions are high and the cost is high. It costs about 3 million RMB (400,000 US dollars) to raise a giant panda a year, which averages more than 8,000 RMB (1,100 US dollars) a day;
Giant pandas are also very particular about their living environment. Even if you buy a mountain, they may not be able to live in it...

3. The most important thing is that pandas are China’s national treasures. Illegal hunting, trading, and private breeding are prohibited.

Specific legal provisions are as follows:
China's "Wildlife Protection Law" not only protects China's wild animals, but also covers China's wild animals and their habitats, artificial breeding, prohibition of illegal hunting, prohibition of illegal trade, prohibition of illegal consumption, law enforcement and supervision, etc. standards. There are clear provisions on the ownership, domestication, slaughter, acquisition, and breeding of wild animals!

"Wildlife Protection Law of the People's Republic of China"
Article 17 China encourages the domestication and breeding of wild animals. Those who domesticate and breed China's key protected wild animals must hold a license. The management measures for licenses shall be formulated by the wildlife administrative department of the State Council.
Article 22 It is prohibited to sell or purchase China's key protected wild animals or their products. Due to special circumstances such as scientific research, domestication and breeding, exhibitions, etc., if it is necessary to sell, acquire, or utilize China's first-level protected wild animals or their products, it must be approved by the wildlife administrative department of the State Council or its authorized unit; if it is necessary to sell, acquire, or utilize China's second-level protected wild animals or their products must be approved by the wildlife administrative department of the provincial, autonomous region, or municipal government directly under the Central Government or its authorized unit. Units and individuals that domesticate and breed nationally protected wild animals may sell China's majorly protected wild animals or their products to purchasers designated by the government with a domestication and breeding license in accordance with regulations. The industrial and commercial administrative departments shall supervise and manage wild animals or their products entering the market.

Criminal law punishment
Article 341 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China [Crime of Endangering Rare and Endangered Wild Animals] stipulates that illegal hunting and killing of rare and endangered wild animals under key state protection, or illegal purchase, transportation, and sale of key under state protection Whoever steals precious or endangered wild animals and their products shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to ten years The above shall be punished with fixed-term imprisonment, and shall also be punished with a fine or confiscation of property.
If the illegal breeding of wild animals does not constitute a crime, the illegal income shall be confiscated by the wildlife administrative department and a fine of not more than 3,000 yuan may be imposed. The wild animals may also be confiscated and the domestication and breeding license may be revoked.

Legal warning:
It is not illegal for units and individuals to keep wild animals if they comply with relevant laws and regulations. However, in some countries, protected animals cannot be kept privately. You must apply for a license in accordance with relevant regulations, including large-scale activities. panda.
Without the permission of the wildlife authorities, no citizen or unit may engage in the acquisition, transportation, or sale of precious and endangered wild animals and their products under national key protection, whether for personal interests or profit purposes, let alone illegal hunting. , killing, otherwise they will face criminal punishment. If the circumstances are particularly serious, they may be sentenced to up to fifteen years in prison.

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