Chapter 652

Fang ye said: "at that time, the dilemma faced by giant pandas was far from bamboo flowering, no food and starvation.

After investigating in the past, investigators found more than 20000 animal traps in a certain place.

Although pandas have little edible and medicinal value, so the poaching of giant pandas is not too serious, giant pandas will step on the traps arranged for other animals. If they are careless, they will be pinched off their legs and feet, or even die.

In addition, people's awareness of ecological protection was generally weak. Some county leaders said that people could not eat enough. Why protect giant pandas?

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

"Lying trough!"

The tourists around heard a cry of surprise.

400 giant panda skins. How many wild giant panda populations are there now? Only about 1000?

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

"Of course, there are still some villagers who are kind-hearted, rely on mountains and eat mountains, have the simple truth handed down by their ancestors, and know sustainable development, although there was no such word in those years.

When pandas come home for help, they will provide food for them to eat. In those years, there was no convenient road in the reserve, and the external staff were unfamiliar with the terrain. When they went into the mountain to investigate and look for giant pandas, the villagers took the initiative to lead the team. Some villagers directly rescued the giant pandas on the front line and carried out the endangered giant pandas. "

Fang ye said: "the trap is not the main factor, but the disappearance and fragmentation of habitat!

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

With road laying, deforestation, farmland reclamation and dam construction, the habitat of pandas is divided into small pieces, just like isolated islands.

Originally, the bamboos in this mountain can go to another mountain. Now, because of the barrier of roads, farmland and deforestation, they can't go, so they can only wait to starve to death.

There is one person to mention here, Professor Pan.

At that time, people thought that the bamboo blossomed and the pandas would starve to death. They might catch these wild pandas and save them in captivity. The state planned to establish 13 captive farms and catch many pandas back.

However, Professor Pan's investigation and research found that although a large number of bamboos died, they were far from starving pandas. The photos of giant pandas dying were also in areas where there were no bamboos.

Withstanding the pressure, he wrote a research report and submitted it, expressing his firm opposition to the breeding of 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 has stopped. It can be said that it has saved the fate of the panda population on its own. "

Liu Xueqing listens and has a thrilling feeling!

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

The Crested Ibis in Japan is a lesson from the past. The last few single seedlings were caught. As a result, they were not successfully bred and directly extinct.

Giant pandas have a strong ability to reproduce in the wild. In the captive environment, they become sexually indifferent one by one.

"At that time, forests were cut down in the 1980s, especially in the 1990s, when the national timber market was open and more trees were cut down if you want to get rich. The survival of pandas was greatly threatened. Fortunately, the nature reserve was established and the cutting stopped.

Protecting animals and habitats is the most fundamental. Captive breeding is only a remedial measure.

But now there is a new threat. Excessive grazing will also lead to the eating of bamboo by livestock, resulting in the change of panda habitat. Because of the increase in meat demand and grazing, even one-third of panda habitat has been degraded and disappeared in some places. "

Fang ye saw the people thinking attentively and said, "when we talk about protecting animals, it is not enough to just study animals and their living environment. People are also a key factor.

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

For example, in Qinghai Ansai big cat Valley, herdsmen's livestock will be preyed on by snow leopards. The reserve employs herdsmen as environmental monitors, arranges infrared cameras on the mountain to monitor the activities of snow leopards, provides scientific research data, and develops ecological travel. Experienced herdsmen take tourists to visit snow leopards.

In guanba area, Sichuan Province, the environment used to rely on cutting down trees and hunting as an economic source, and the environment is getting worse and worse. Now we try to replace cutting trees by beekeeping. The environment is getting better. All kinds of rare animals come back, the number of specialty cold water fish is increasing, and the income is also getting higher.

Tell you another story about Professor Pan.

After his investigation of wild giant pandas in Qinling Mountains in 1996, he turned his attention to the white headed langur in Guangxi.

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

Professor Pan found that local residents are used to cutting down trees to make a fire and cook. 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 the natural growth rate of trees.

If this situation continues to develop, not only will the trees continue to decrease, but also the survival of white headed langurs will face greater difficulties, the environment will become worse, and the local people will become poorer and poorer.

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

First, I paid 1500 yuan to help two families carry out biogas transformation. However, due to lack of experience and lack of funds, the effect is not ideal.

Later, he won a bonus of 100000 yuan, all of which was taken out by him to build biogas digesters in the village.

After posting the notice of purchasing cow dung, every family rushed to send cow dung, and soon found the benefits of biogas. Later, the Ministry of agriculture funded the construction of biogas digesters in more than a dozen surrounding villages. Since then, the local villagers' habit of cutting firewood and cooking has changed for hundreds of years.

Professor Pan asked again. The villagers said they wouldn't cut trees. It's not much more convenient to use biogas. Cutting trees is like killing pigs. It's really a helpless thing for the poor family.

There is no need to climb mountains and mountains to cut trees. Villagers have time to do other things. They have planted sugarcane in the fields. They used to be poor, but now their income has come up, and their living standards have been greatly improved.

The local vegetation is gradually restored, there are more trees, the activity range of white headed leaf monkeys is increased, and the population number is increasing year by year. Now the total number has reached about 1000. "

The tourists were fascinated and praised one after another!

"Great!"

"What a great scientist, unparalleled in the world!"

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