I Have a Safari Park

Fang Yedao: "At that time, the difficulties faced by giant pandas were far from the flowering of bamboo, and it was not as simple as dying of starvation after eating.

After the investigators went to investigate, they found more than 20,000 animal traps somewhere.

Although pandas have little edible and medicinal value, the poaching of giant pandas is not serious, but these traps for other animals will also be stepped on by giant pandas. will die.

Moreover, people's awareness of ecological protection was generally very weak. Some county leaders said that people could not eat enough, why should they protect giant pandas?

From the homes of some villagers, more than 400 giant panda skins and some golden monkey skins were confiscated. "

"Fuck!"

The surrounding tourists exclaimed in surprise.

400 giant panda skins, how many giant pandas are there in the wild? Only about 1000?

With so many giant panda skins, you can imagine how dangerous they were back then.

"Of course, there are still some kind-hearted fellows, who rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, have simple principles passed down from their ancestors, and know sustainable development, although the word did not exist in those days.

When pandas come to their house for help, they will provide them with food. At that time, there were no convenient roads in the reserve, and the outside staff were not familiar with the terrain. When they went into the mountains to investigate and look for giant pandas, the villagers took the initiative to lead the team. lift out. "

Fang Ye said: "The trap is not the main factor, the most important thing is the disappearance and fragmentation of the habitat!

It was said before that pandas are not afraid of bamboo flowering, which is based on the premise of a complete habitat.

Paved roads, deforestation, farmland reclamation, dam construction, panda habitats are divided into small pieces, like isolated islands.

It used to be that the bamboo blossoms in this mountain can go to another mountain, but now they can't go because of the road, farmland, and deforestation, so they can only wait to die of starvation.

There is one person to mention here, Professor Pan.

At that time, everyone thought that the bamboos were blooming and the pandas were going to starve to death. It is possible to catch all these wild pandas and raise them in captivity. The state planned to build 13 captive farms, and many pandas were captured.

However, after Professor Pan's investigation and research, he found that although a large number of bamboos died, they were far from starving to death. The photo of the death of the giant panda is also in an area where there is no bamboo blooming.

Resist the pressure, write down a research report and submit it, expressing firm opposition to raising wild pandas. Doing so will only destroy the population structure of wild pandas, and may also cause them to stop breeding.

Because the report is very detailed, the plan of the captive farm was stopped. It can be said that he saved the fate of the panda clan by himself. "

Liu Xueqing listened with a thrilling feeling!

When you think about all the giant pandas being caught and kept in captivity, the consequences are very serious.

The crested ibis in Japan is a lesson from the past. The last few single seedlings were caught, and they went extinct without successful breeding.

Giant pandas have a strong reproductive ability in the wild, and they all become frigid in captivity.

"At that time, deforestation was in the 1980s, especially in the 1990s, when the national timber market was opened, and more trees were cut down if one wanted to make a fortune. The survival of pandas was greatly threatened. Fortunately, the deforestation stopped after the establishment of a nature reserve.

Protecting animals and protecting habitats is the most fundamental, and captive breeding is only a remedy.

But now there is a new threat. Excessive grazing, livestock will also eat bamboo, resulting in changes in panda habitat. Because we now have increased meat demand, increased grazing, and in some places even a third of panda habitat has been degraded. "

Fang Ye saw that everyone was thinking deeply and said: "When we talk about protecting animals, it is not enough to just study animals and the environment in which they live, and people are also a key factor.

It is not to say that protecting animals means ignoring the survival of human beings, but to change the economic form of protected areas as much as possible, to find some alternative economies, so that both the residents and the environment can benefit, and it is best for the community to participate in the protection. protection of.

For example, in Angsai Big Cat Valley in Qinghai, herdsmen’s livestock will be preyed on by snow leopards. The reserve employs herdsmen as environmental monitors, and deploys infrared cameras on the mountains to monitor the activities of snow leopards, provide scientific research data, and develop ecological travel. Experienced herders take tourists to visit snow leopards.

The Guanba area in Sichuan used to rely on felling trees and hunting as a source of income, and the environment is getting worse. Now we try to use beekeeping instead of felling trees. The environment has improved, and various rare animals have returned. .

Let me tell you a story about Professor Pan.

After he finished his inspection of wild giant pandas in Qinling Mountains in 1996, he turned his attention to the white-headed langurs in Guangxi.

At that time, the natural environment here was also greatly damaged, and the population of white-headed langurs was less than 100.

Professor Pan found that local residents are used to cutting down trees to make fires for cooking. Many people's yards are filled with mountains of firewood. The development of the surrounding land has reached saturation, and the annual demand for firewood is far greater than that of trees that grow naturally speed.

If this situation continues, not only will the trees continue to decrease, but the survival of the white-headed langur will face greater difficulties, the environment will become worse, and the local people will become increasingly poor.

So Professor Pan thought about it, and wanted to protect the white-headed langur, first of all, he had to let the people eat without cutting down trees.

First, they paid 1,500 yuan to help two families carry out biogas transformation. However, due to lack of experience and insufficient funds, the effect was not satisfactory.

Later, he won a bonus of 100,000 yuan, which was all used by him to build a biogas digester in the village.

After posting the notice to buy cow dung, every household rushed to send cow dung, and soon discovered the benefits of biogas. Later, the Ministry of Agriculture invested again, and biogas digesters were built in more than a dozen surrounding villages. Since then, the local villagers' habits of chopping firewood and cooking for hundreds of years have changed.

Professor Pan asked again, and the villagers said that they would not cut down trees anymore. It is not much more convenient to use biogas. Chopping down trees is like killing a pig.

There is no need to go over the mountains to chop down trees. The villagers have time to do other things. They plant sugar cane in the fields. They used to be very poor, but now their income has also increased, and their living standards have been greatly improved.

The local vegetation has gradually recovered, there are more trees, the range of white-headed langurs has increased, and the population has increased year by year, and now the total number has reached about 1,000. "

The tourists were fascinated and praised one after another!

"Great!"

"What an amazing scientist, a national scholar!"

"Being responsible for animals is also responsible for people. Harmonious coexistence with nature is our pursuit."