At the beginning of July, the Swedish royal documentary crew finally arrived in the reserve.

They arrived in a minibus and two off-road vehicles, followed by a media van, South African national television.

South African National Television is owned by the South African National Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), which is the top television channel in Africa and the first television station launched in South Africa.

Yang Shubao was stunned when he saw the SABC and the logo in the shape of a colorful WiFi signal on the car, he did not expect the state television station to come to his reserve.

While the videographer was still debugging the machine, he first took out his mobile phone and turned on the front camera to look at his image, the hairstyle was not tidied up and was a little messy, he quickly poured some water into the palm of his hand and smoothed his hair.

Nicole saw his nervousness and smiled: "You don't have to worry so much, the national television and its SABC are no longer good, I read the news that the top management of SABC has recently discussed the bankruptcy of the group with the parliament, and their net loss in the past financial year has reached 56.8 billion rand." ”

Yang Shubao asked: "It's going bankrupt? This is a national television station, how can it go bankrupt?"

For the Chinese, this is a very amazing thing.

But Africa is a magical continent, and anything happens in the country here.

"There are a number of reasons for the current predicament, but the main one is the previous management team's disregard for the management process, and I see on the news that this is the main reason why SABC is in financial trouble," Nicole said. ”

Doris and Picklesson went up first to talk to the crew, they had worked together on a documentary about African lions, and they were old acquaintances.

After the greetings, Doris introduced them as an intermediary, this time the crew leader is Patrick Peters, the producer of the Swedish Royal Family Documentary Channel, the director is called Gardner Clive, and there are two videographers who are said to be very famous in Europe, namely Lawson Duncan and Pearson Shelley.

The crew also brought bodyguards, and the person in charge is called Dan Leslie, who is the captain and deputy captain of the Swedish special forces.

The reason why the media was brought over was because the crew wanted to donate money to the reserve, nominally a gift from the Swedish royal family, and the money was exactly the amount that Doris had told him before, 10 million crowns.

From this point, it can be seen that the Swedish royal family documentary channel has a lot of money, and people really take the protection of the environment and animals as a career, and they sent a large amount of money to support them when they learned that Yang Shubao had built a very effective protected area here.

The arrival of the crew not only brought them money, but also exposure and attention.

The Kandorf aid station, which had not been here for a while, also heard the news, and they sent a batch of animals and a batch of rabbits again.

When Yang Shubao received the call, he thought that the ambulance station was joking with him, so he also joked: "Why are you sending rabbits to me?

Wu Chenjie was stunned when he heard this: "Fortunately, it was me who called you, if it were our Meilin stationmaster, you wouldn't even think of a rabbit fur." ”

Yang Shubao smiled: "Nonsense, if the stationmaster Merlin calls, can I joke around?"

"You'd better be joking, this time you're giving you the most precious animal, the South African hare. You have to protect them, and it's better to have a separate living quarter, they're so precious. ”

Listening to Wu Chenjie's words, Yang Shubao was stunned: "South African mountain hare? is it the South African mountain hare I know?"

Wu Chenjie said: "Listen to your tone. ”

The South African mountain hare is the rarest and most endangered mammal in the whole of South Africa, with about one of them, and there are only so many of these animals left in the world, and it is listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List!

The team escorting the South African hare, simple and solemn, was transported by a large pickup truck, with a police car leading the way.

Stationmaster Merlin solemnly took him to the pickup truck and motioned him to look inside: "This time we brought five tribes, a total of thirty-five mountain rabbits, I hope you can protect them." ”

Five of the thirty-five mountain rabbits are males and the other thirty are females, and their habits are polygamous, with one male rabbit and multiple female rabbits in each group.

Yang Shubao looked at the South African mountain rabbits in five cages, these rabbits are not much different from grass rabbits, the biggest difference in appearance is that the corners of the mouth across the cheeks have a black marking. In addition, their abdomen and throat are milky white, and their hind feet are very broad, with large feet.

He opened a cage and reached inside, and a rabbit immediately stuck to his hand.

Seeing this, he gently stroked the big ears of the mountain rabbit and said, "Please rest assured, Stationmaster Merlin, I will definitely protect them." ”

Stationmaster Merlin said with some melancholy: "Yang, you have to do what you say, you have to pay more attention to them, if you can't keep this race, then they will become extinct in the next few years." ”

Yang Shubao asked, "Is the situation so grim?"

"Yes, it's grim," said the stationmaster Merlin, "and the state doesn't care if their population survives, because they're just rabbits. There are so many rabbits in Africa that they don't help the environment, so the government and the world don't pay much attention to them, unlike the northern white rhinoceros. ”

She went on to tell Yang that the South African hare, which is only found in some areas of the South African highlands, is not a protected area, so the hare's situation is very dangerous.

These five mountain hare groups are from the wild of Fort Fraser, and they were brought to the rescue station by Stationmaster Merlin using his family connections.

A small town was established a year ago, and if she hadn't taken the hares away, it was estimated that they would have faced a desperate situation of habitat loss, and even if they were not captured and killed by humans, they would have become extinct due to the loss of habitat.

The hares have been living at the rescue station for a year, and the stationmaster Merlin originally wanted to keep them at the rescue station forever, and directly switch them from wild to farmed, and do his best to preserve the species first.

But a Swedish royal documentary crew came to Yang Shubao's reserve to make a documentary, so she decided to send them to the reserve and let them appear in the documentary, so that the world can pay attention to this critically endangered species.

She is full of affection for these rabbits, and has been chatting with Yang Shubao about how to take care of them since they were delivered.

"Next month is August, Yang, you must pay more attention to them, they enter the breeding season in August, in the past year because of environmental changes, they have some problems, and they have not completed the breeding work, I hope they can continue to breed now back in the wild." ”

Rabbits are unlikely to be endangered, as they are so fertile that Australia was almost abandoned by them.

But mountain rabbits are one of the different species, their fecundity is very poor, a female rabbit will only produce one litter a year, a litter of one rabbit, so this fecundity of their population can continue to this day depends on Gou.

The South African mountain hare is a master of Gouzhong.