o Joint control efforts with cities/districts and private organizations for next four months 

o Legal measures will be taken against those who eat the meat of illegally hunted animals from February 10, 2005. 

Gyeonggi-do announced that special poaching control teams will be organized and operated in different local governing bodies until February 2005, with the aim of eliminating illegal hunting activities. Unit governing bodies will also exercise the appropriate force against poachers whenever necessary. Cooperation with private organizations is also being pursued to heighten the efficiency of the control effort. 

– The province saw a significant decrease in gun poaching as a result of its aggressive control efforts, yet there still exist possibilities for habitual poaching activities that rely upon snares and traps. 

– Enforcement activities will take place mainly in Ecosystem Protection Areas and natural habitat preserves for major migratory birds. 

– All businesses and persons that are involved in poaching-related illegal transactions, such as health food stores and taxidermy shops, will be subject to surprise inspections. 

The province is promoting the collection of illegal poaching tools such as snares, traps, and guns in collaboration with city and district offices, private NGOs, and army bases to put an end to habitual poaching activities. 

Regular offenders and professional poachers (hunters, transporters, keepers) will be sentenced the maximum punishment based on an in-custody investigation carried out through close cooperation with the police. 

A provincial official stated, “The poaching control and public campaign will have a positive effect on eliminating poaching-related illegal transactions to ultimately protect wild animals. Those who eat the meat of illegally hunted animals will be punished (imprisonment of less than a year/ fine less than \5 million) based on the Wild Animal & Plant Protection Act to be implemented on February 10, 2005. We ask for the public’s cooperation.”