• Hong Kong: likelihood to support illegal wildlife market closure 2020

According to the survey on wildlife trade in Hong Kong, about 93 percent of respondents would like to support the efforts of the local governments and health ministries in taking actions against illegal and unregulated markets that sell wild animals. Approximately 80 percent of the respondents believed the closure of the illegal wildlife market would prevent the spread of a similar disease in the future.

Likelihood to support illegal and unregulated wildlife market closure in Hong Kong as of March 2020

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Release date

April 2020

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Region

Hong Kong

Survey time period

March 3, 2020 to March 11, 2020

Number of respondents

993 respondents

Method of interview

Questionnaire

Supplementary notes

Original question: How likely would you be to support the efforts by governments and health ministries to close all illegal and unregulated markets selling wildlife (i.e., animals coming from the wild, direct from nature such as bats, pangolins, and civet cats, not livestock which are farmed)in your country?

Respondents were randomly selected and were representative of gender and age of the online population of their respective market.

For the purpose of this survey, ‘wild animals’ are defined as non-domesticated, non-livestock terrestrial animals (non-insect and non-aquatic).

Note: Values may not add up to 100 percent due to possible non-responses or other reasons not stated by the source.