What Are the National Second-Class Protected Animals? A Complete List of Common Species Names
The "List of National Key Protected Wild Animals" was originally jointly formulated and issued by the former Ministry of Forestry and the Ministry of Agriculture in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Wild Animal Protection Law of the People's Republic of China." It is a list of precious and endangered wild animals under national key protection, in which the protection levels are divided into first class and second class. Let's take a look below at what the national second-class protected animals are!
Birds
Horned Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Pelicans (all species), Boobies (all species), Sea Cormorant, Pacific Reef Heron, Hainan Partridge, Little Bittern, Painted Stork, White Ibis, Eurasian Spoonbill, Black-faced Spoonbill, Red-breasted Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose, Swans (all species), Falconidae (all species), Accipitridae (all other hawks except first-class species), Black Grouse, Willow Ptarmigan, Rock Ptarmigan, Snow Partridge, Blood Pheasant, Red-bellied Tragopan, Tibetan Eared Pheasant, Blue Eared Pheasant, Red Junglefowl, Koklass Pheasant, Reeves's Pheasant, Golden Pheasants (all species), Common Crane, Demoiselle Crane, Corn Crake, Baillon's Crake, Brown-backed Crake, Band-bellied Crake, Nordmann's Greenshank, Grey Pratincole, Little Gull, Black Tern, River Tern, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Green Pigeons (all species), Black-chinned Fruit Dove, Imperial Pigeons (all species), Band-tailed Pigeon, Coucals (all species), Strigiformes (all species), Grey-throated Needletail, Crested Treeswift, Orange-breasted Trogon, Black-throated Bee-eater, Green-throated Bee-eater, Bucerotidae, White-bellied Woodpecker, Broadbills, Kingfisher, Psittacidae (all species), Little Curlew, White-naped Crane, Hazel Grouse, Chinese Egret, Glossy Ibis, Silver Pheasant, Black-necked Cormorant, Pittidae (all species), Black Ibis, Blue-eared Kingfisher, Cuckoo-Doves (all species), Chinese Crested Tern, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Sandhill Crane, Black Partridge, Siberian Grouse, Mandarin Duck, Crested Serpent Eagle.
Mammals
Stump-tailed Macaque, Rhesus Macaque, Tibetan Macaque, Dhole, Asiatic Black Bear, Red Panda, Beech Marten, Yellow-throated Marten, Otter, Oriental Small-clawed Otter, Banded Linsang, Large Indian Civet, Small Indian Civet, Steppe Polecat, Desert Cat, Jungle Cat, Eurasian Lynx, Pallas's Cat, Asian Golden Cat, Fishing Cat, Chinese Water Deer, Red Deer (including White-lipped Deer), Sambar Deer, Moose, Goral, Tibetan Gazelle, Goitered Gazelle, Serow, Mongolian Gazelle, Argali, Blue Sheep, Hainan Hare, Mountain Hare, Tarim Hare, Giant Squirrel, Pinnipedia (all species), Cetacea (all other whales except first-class species), Wolf (excluding species not of its subspecies).
Reptiles
Sharp-nosed Pit Viper, Banded Krait, Ball Python, Big-headed Turtle, Three-striped Box Turtle, Green Sea Turtle, Indotestudo elongata, Yunnan Box Turtle, Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Tokay Gecko, Asian Giant Softshell Turtle, Geoemyda spengleri, Olive Ridley Sea Turtle, Hawksbill Sea Turtle, Leatherback Sea Turtle.
Amphibians
Guizhou Warty Newt, Daliang Warty Newt, Chinese Warty Newt, Zhenhai Warty Newt, Rough-skinned Warty Newt, Tiger Frog.
Fish
Chinese Bahaba, Roughskin Sculpin, Kellogg's Seahorse, Chinese Sucker, White Cloud Mountain Minnow, Golden-line Barbel, Dali Schizothoracin, Marbled Eel, Sichuan Taimen, Qinling Lenok, Lancelet, Multi-scaled Shovel-jaw Fish (Multi-scaled Barb).
Invertebrates
Tiger Cowrie, Conch, Large Pearl Oyster, Buddha's Ear Mussel, Giant Water Bug, Chinese Dwarf Dragonfly, Northern Dwarf Dragonfly, Chinese Wingless Insect, Medog Wingless Insect, Carabus lafossei, Carabus smaragdinus, Flower Beetles (all species), Fork-horned Rhinoceros Beetle, Bhutan Glory, Chinese Three-tailed Swallowtail, Chinese Tiger Swallowtail, Apollo Butterfly.