The Measures are enacted pursuant to the provisions of the Article 17 of the Wildlife Protection Law, aiming to protect, develop and utilize rationally wild life resources, and strengthen the wild life domestication and breeding.
Any entity or individual must obtain a national key protected wild animal domestication and breeding license before being engaged in the domestication and breeding activities thereof. The Text, consisting of 14 Articles, provides for the requirements to be satisfied and the procedures for application, review, issuance and cancellation of such licenses.
Where entities or individuals holding such licenses need to sell the national grade 1 and 2 protected wild animals and the products thereof, the approval must be obtained following the provision of Article 9.