Farmers in China are being offered cash to quit breeding exotic animals as pressure grows to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade that has been blamed for the coronavirus outbreak.
Authorities have for the first time pledged to buy out breeders in an attempt to curb the practice, animal rights activists say.
The deadly coronavirus -- first reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan -- is widely believed to have passed from bats to people before spreading worldwide. Hunan on Friday set out a compensation scheme to persuade breeders to rear other livestock or produce tea and herbal medicines. A civet cat -- the animal believed to have carried Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome to humans in another coronavirus outbreak nearly two decades ago -- is worth 600 yuan.
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