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Legal pathways for wildlife trade under the Wildlife Protection Law before the ban.
China’s Wildlife Protection Law adopts a supply-side approach through legalizing and regulating wildlife trade with a complex license system. The current system is distributed across different departments related to wildlife management, quarantine, food safety and market supervision. ‘Other species’ in the grey box are not regulated by any laws for hunting or farming.
