A Japanese national has been ordered to leave China for poaching wild butterflies in violation of Chinese laws, Chinese police said on Tuesday.
Kosima Kawa, 68, was detained on July 13 while illegally catching butterflies in Yanchi Township, Yiwu County, Hami Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said Yu Jingxin, head of the forest police in the prefecture.
Police confiscated 354 wild butterflies and seven butterfly nets, Yu said.
Kawa confessed during questioning on July 17 that he entered China on May 25 as a tourist and the butterflies were caught in Sichuan Province and Tibet Autonomous Region in the country's southwest, and Qinghai Province and Xinjiang in the country's northwest, Yu said.
He allegedly said he had collected butterflies for more than 50 years and he had been acting on his own in China.
Kawa acknowledged that he had broken Chinese law on wildlife protection and offered an apology to China, said Yu.
Local police ordered Kawa, who is in the regional capital of Urumqi, to leave the country within 10 days, Yu said.
Source: Xinhua
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