From the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Rt Hon The Lord Goronwy-Roberts
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You wrote to Peter Shore on 29 July enclosing a letter from the Fauna Preservation Society in which they asked if our Embassy in Peking had obtained any further information from the Chinese authorities about the preservation of wildlife in China. I understand that the Department of Trade have written to you explaining why they have only recently forwarded your letter to my office.
In my letter to you of 29 April I said that our Ambassador in Peking had raised this problem with the Chinese authorities. We have not yet had a formal reply from them, but in further informal contacts our Embassy have been able to elicit a fair amount of information about the treatment of rare species in China which may be of interest to the Fauna Preservation Society.
The Chinese were at great pains to emphasise the importance which their Government attached to wild life conservation (and everything that we hear suggests that this concern is genuine). Chinese regula- tions for the protection of wildlife, forests and plants are the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and of the local authorities.
The regulations are based on a system of rewards to individuals for contributions to the preservation of wildlife and plants; and of education and criticism (and sometimes even punishment) of anyone who contravenes the regulations.
Tam Dalyell Esq MP
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