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Front. Anim. Sci.
Sec. Animal Welfare and Policy
This article is part of the Research TopicWildlife ConservationView all 7 articles
Optimization of the Wildlife Protection List System from the Biodiversity Conservation Perspective
Provisionally accepted
- Shandong University, Jinan, China
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China's list of wild animals under state protection, as a core supporting system of the "Wildlife Protection Law," has been lagging for 32 years without systematic updates and has four major systemic defects: missing revision procedures, unclear listing standards, conflicting connections with international convention lists, and insufficient implementation guarantees. To strengthen biodiversity protection, this paper proposes five major optimization strategies: establishing a dynamic update mechanism with a three-year cycle, solidifying the entire process of standardizing the revision of the list, improving the legal standards for species inclusion and classification, improving the domestic conversion and application rules of international lists, and constructing a phased implementation path guarantee system, to save endangered species and maintain ecological balance through system improvement.
Keywords: biodiversity conservation, Endangered Species, wildlife, Wildlife List System, Wildlife protection law
Received: 17 Oct 2025; Accepted: 10 Feb 2026.
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* Correspondence: Guoqing Han
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