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Top News Reporter Wang Jingjing Li Jiazi Intern Ding Boyang

Recently, Beligutai Town, Abaga Banner, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia organized a comprehensive administrative law enforcement team to carry out law enforcement activities to severely crack down on illegal picking of wild plants. Official news shows that as of now, 5 cases of illegal picking of wild plants (sand onions, leek flowers, etc.) have been cracked down and 24 people have been investigated and punished.

As soon as the news was released, it attracted the attention of many netizens. Is it illegal to pick sand onions and chives? Some netizens also think that once the picking behavior causes damage to the ecological environment, it should be restricted.

On August 23, a reporter from Dingdian News asked the Propaganda Department of the Abaga Banner Committee in the capacity of a citizen. The staff replied that the grassland in the relevant incident belonged to an individual, and the offenders were suspected of using tools to carry out large-scale profit-making picking of wild plants. More details about the incident will be responded to in a unified manner later.

This is not the first time that people have been caught picking sand onions and chives

Official news from the People's Government of Beligutai Town, Abaga Banner, Xilingol League shows that in order to protect wild plant resources, maintain biodiversity and ecological balance, and form a strong deterrent against illegal acts that damage grassland resources, Beligutai Town, Abaga Banner, Xilingol League organized a comprehensive administrative law enforcement team to carry out this law enforcement activity.

It is reported that since the operation was launched, the law enforcement team has concentrated its efforts on the key areas of each gacha based on the distribution of wild plants (sand onion, leek flowers, etc.) in the jurisdiction, and stopped many illegal acts such as illegal picking of wild sand onion and leek flowers.

Image source: Official account of Beiligutai Town Government of Xilin Gol League, "Beiligutai is at your service"

Image source: Xilin Gol League Eren Nur Sumu official account "Eren Nur Sumu"

Dingdian News reporters found that this is not the first time that such law enforcement actions have been taken in some parts of Inner Mongolia. In addition to Beligutai Town in Abaga Banner, Ernnaoer Sumu in Sunite Right Banner, Xilin Gol League, has also recently cracked down on the act of picking wild mushrooms.

Official news shows that the Erinnur Sumu Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Team has concentrated its efforts on launching a special campaign to crack down on illegal collection of wild plants, and has stopped a number of illegal acts of stealing wild mushrooms.

In addition, in July this year, the Xilin Gol League Media Center issued a statement that the Zhengxiangbai Banner Public Security Environmental Protection, Food and Drug Brigade received a report from the public, and the police found four people illegally picking plants on the spot, seized four picking tools and more than 200 kilograms of wild mountain chives. According to Article 67 of the Grassland Law of the People's Republic of China, administrative penalties were imposed on the people involved.

Image source: "Ximeng Rong Media" account

As early as August 16, 2021, the Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau of Wuliyastai Town, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, issued an announcement stating that after the video of collecting wild chives was spread on the Internet, the East Ujimqin Banner Natural Resources Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Brigade and the Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau of Wuliyastai Town immediately organized law enforcement personnel to conduct investigations at the wild chive collection sites and chive processing sites, seize collection vehicles and related tools, and investigate the collection personnel involved, and make investigation and interrogation records. This case is under further investigation and handling, and suspected illegal and irregular acts will be filed and investigated in accordance with the provisions of the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Basic Grassland Protection Regulations".

The grassland in the relevant incident belongs to an individual

Regarding the controversial incident of "24 people being investigated for picking sand onion and leek flowers", on the afternoon of August 23, a reporter from Dingdian News called the Party and Mass Service Center of Bieligutai Town as a citizen. The staff said that the propaganda department of the flag would have a unified reply.

Afterwards, Dingdian News contacted the Propaganda Department of the Abaga Banner Committee, to which Beligutai Town belongs, to inquire about more details of the illegal behavior. "We will reply to the reasons for the violation, the relevant penalties, and the legal provisions involved on the Abaga Banner WeChat public platform later." The staff member also revealed that the grassland in the relevant incident was personal, and the offenders were suspected of using tools to harvest wild plants on a large scale for profit.

Regarding the issue of picking wild mushrooms in Erinnur Sumu, Dingdian News reporters contacted the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Xilin Gol League. The staff said that law enforcement supervision will be carried out all year round for the picking of wild plants on the grassland. "If you pick the first or second level (plants) on the list of (national key protected wild plants), won't you be sentenced?"

In addition, reporters from Top News called the Xilingol League Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau many times but were unable to get through.

In response to this incident, Liu Kai, a lawyer at Beijing Zhongwen (Changsha) Law Firm, said that in ecologically fragile areas such as grasslands and forests, protecting biodiversity and ecological balance is of great significance. In recent years, the country has successively formulated and issued laws and regulations such as the "Grassland Law" and the "Wild Plant Protection Regulations". Picking wild plants in specific areas is prohibited. These laws are formulated to protect grassland ecology and biodiversity and ensure the sustainable use of resources. The actions of law enforcement agencies are based on legal provisions and are legal.

Liu Kai said that netizens' doubts mainly stem from their lack of understanding of laws and regulations. Many people are not aware that it is prohibited to pick plants in deserts, semi-deserts, grasslands that are severely degraded, desertified, salinized, rocky, and soil eroded, as well as grasslands in ecologically fragile areas.