Chapter 648: The story of the white-headed leaf monkey

Fang Ye said: "The plight facing giant pandas at the time was far from flowering bamboo, it was not as simple as starving to death after eating.

After investigating in the past, the investigators found more than 20,000 traps in a certain place.

Although pandas have no edible and medicinal value, the poaching of giant pandas is not serious, but these traps for other animals will be stepped on by giant pandas. If they are not careful, their legs and feet will be severed. Then died.

Moreover, people's awareness of ecological protection was generally very weak at the time. Some county leaders said that people can't get enough to eat, so why protect giant pandas?

In some villagers' homes, more than 400 giant panda skins and some golden monkey skins were confiscated. "

"Fuck!"

The surrounding tourists all cried out in exclamation.

With 400 panda skins, what is the current population of wild pandas? Only about 1,000, right?

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

"Of course, there are still some fellow villagers who are more kind, who rely on mountains and eat mountains, have simple principles handed down from their ancestors, and know sustainable development, although there was no such word back then.

When pandas come to home for help, they will provide food for them to eat. Back then, there were no easy-to-walk roads in the reserve, and outside workers were unfamiliar with the terrain. When they went into the mountains to investigate and search for giant pandas, the villagers took the initiative to lead the team, and some villagers directly rescued giant pandas on the front line and took the dying giant pandas. Carry it out. "

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

I said before that pandas are not afraid of bamboo blooming. This is based on the premise that the habitat is complete.

Road paving, deforestation, farmland reclamation, dam construction, panda habitat is divided into small pieces, like isolated islands.

It used to be that the bamboo blooming in this mountain can go to another mountain, but now it can't go because of roads, farmland, and deforestation, so I can only wait to starve to death.

There is one person mentioned here, Professor Pan.

At that time, everyone felt that the bamboo was blooming and the pandas were going to starve to death. It was possible to catch all these wild pandas, and then they could be rescued by artificial captivity. The state plans to establish 13 captive farms, and many pandas were caught back.

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

Withstanding the pressure, I wrote a research report and submitted it to express my firm opposition to raising wild pandas. Doing so would only destroy the population structure of wild pandas and may also cause them to no longer reproduce.

Because the content of the report was very detailed, the plan of the captive farm stopped. It can be said that the destiny of the panda tribe was saved by one's own efforts. "

Liu Xueqing listened, with a thrilling feeling!

Think about the giant pandas being arrested and kept in captivity, and the consequences are serious.

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

Giant pandas are very capable of reproducing in the wild, and all of them have become cold in captivity.

"At that time, deforestation in the 1980s, especially in the 1990s, when the national timber market opened up. If you want to make a fortune, you can cut down more trees. The survival of pandas was greatly threatened. Fortunately, the nature reserve was established and felling stopped.

Protection of animals and habitat protection are the most fundamental, and captive breeding is only a remedy.

But now there is a new threat. Over grazing, livestock will also eat bamboo, leading to changes in panda habitat. Because of our increased meat demand and increased grazing, even one-third of the panda habitat has been degraded and disappeared in some places. "

Fang Ye saw the people concentrating and preaching: "When we talk about protecting animals, it is not enough to study animals and the environment in which they live. People are also one of the key factors.

It does not mean that the protection of animals is to ignore the survival of people, but to change the economic form of the protected area as much as possible, find some alternative economies, so that the residents and the environment can benefit, and the community participation in the protection is the best protection of.

For example, in Qinghai Angsai Big Cat Valley, herders' livestock will be preyed by snow leopards. The reserve hires herders as environmental monitors, arranges infrared cameras on the mountains, monitors the activities of snow leopards, provides scientific research data, and develops ecological travel at the same time, with experience. Of herders took tourists to visit the snow leopards.

In the Guanba area of ​​Sichuan, the environment has been deteriorating because of tree felling and hunting as a source of income. Now it is trying to use beekeeping instead of tree cutting. The environment has improved. Various rare animals have returned. The number of special cold-water fish has increased, and the income has also increased. .

Let me tell you a story about Professor Pan.

After finishing his inspection of wild pandas in Qinling Mountains in 1996, he set his sights on the white-headed langurs in Guangxi.

The natural environment here was also greatly damaged at that time, and the population of white-headed langurs was less than one hundred.

Professor Pan discovered that local residents are accustomed 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 much greater than the natural growth of trees. speed.

If this situation continues to develop, not only will the number of trees continue to decrease, the white-headed langur will face greater difficulties for survival, the environment will become worse, and the local people will become more and more impoverished.

Therefore, 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 the tree.

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

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

After posting a notice for the purchase of cow dung, every household at rushed to deliver cow dung, and soon discovered the benefits of biogas. Later, the Ministry of Agriculture funded the construction of biogas digesters in a dozen surrounding villages. Since then, the local villagers' habits of cutting wood and cooking for hundreds of years have changed.

Professor Pan asked again. The villagers said that they would not cut down trees. It is not much more convenient to use biogas. Cutting down trees is like killing a pig. It is really a poor family and helpless thing.

There is no need to cross mountains and ridges to chop down trees. The villagers have time to do other things. They planted sugarcane in the fields. They used to be impoverished, but now their incomes have risen, and their living standards have been greatly improved.

The local vegetation is gradually restored, there are more trees, the range of activities of the 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 listened attentively and admired one after another!

"Great!"

"Really an amazing scientist, Wushuang Guo Shi!"

"Being responsible for animals is also responsible for people. It is our pursuit to live in harmony with nature."