"Peng Cheng, what are you tease me about?" Xiao Peng looked around with wide eyes.

They finally arrived at Isla de la Juventud. But the problem arises, the island of Juventud has only two ports, one in the west of the island and one in the north of the island, all of which are small passenger terminals, and the connection between the island and the island of Cuba depends on these two small piers. These two wharves are at least 100 years old, right? In addition to the ferry passenger boats, there are small fishing boats of Cuban fishermen, although the 'Vladimir' is not a super large fishing boat, but it is also troublesome to moor here------ there is no shipyard at this wharf!

The most important thing is: there are really a lot of people at this ferry terminal. Isla de la Juventud, where the old card was held, is now a tourist attraction, and many people come here to visit the prison-turned-museum. And the circle around Pinos Island is definitely a diving resort, and the most beautiful shark watching diving in Cuba is here, so it attracts a large number of tourists. With so many tourists moving treasure down, today the whole world will know about it!

This is not the most nonsense, the most nonsense is the airport on the island of Pinos, that is, a piece of land, pull out the grass and tamp the ground to become the airport. Around the airport, it was really a state of 'wind blowing grass and seeing cattle and sheep', and large planes could not take off and land at all. Xiao Peng actually saw four old fortune fives that he was extremely familiar with here。。。。。。 Oh, it's not the Yun 5, but the predecessor of the Yun 5, the An-2 transport aircraft of the former Soviet Union, I didn't expect it to become the mainstream transport aircraft on the island here,

It is not surprising that the An-2 was put into production in 1947 and was discontinued in 1991, more than half a century. The total production is nearly 20,000 aircraft! It can now be seen in almost every country in the world.

But the stuff is good, and the durability is durable, but it really can't hold so many treasures! Although the treasure of three containers does not seem to be much, it adds up to at least 70 or 80 tons! And the carrying capacity of the An-2 is only two tons, how many times will it take to transport it? Besides, there are so many gold coins and gold ingots, what should we do if people steal them like this?

Sun Pengcheng laughed: "Brother Peng, don't be nervous. We have other arrangements. We'll be on the island for two days now. ”

"Playing a fart!" Xiao Peng said speechlessly: "There are so many things on the ship, no one dares to leave the ship, who is responsible for a little problem?"

Sun Pengcheng smiled and took out a sturdy little crocodile tied from the trunk of the car and said with a smile: "Okay, Brother Peng, don't be nervous, the Cuban military and the fierce son are all on the ship, how can there be a problem? Let's go to Havana first." ”

Xiao Peng pointed to the crocodile and said, "It's because of this that I'm not at ease." ”

When they arrived at the port just now, the Cuban side sent three cars to the dock to pick up Xiao Peng to take him to the airport, but as soon as they left the dock, the car was stopped, and several people on the side of the road directly asked them where they were going. I heard that after going to the airport, I had to take a ride directly. And the Cuban side just let those people get on the bus.

Sun Pengcheng explained: "The Cuban law stipulates that if these green government cars meet ordinary people to ride, they must be allowed to ride unconditionally. There have been Cuban government officials who have been dismissed because someone did not let the people get a ride. ”

Xiao Peng blinked: "Then what if the foreign leader comes? Let people reach out to stop it?

Sun Pengcheng said with a smile: "The leader wants to take a black car. That's the car of the diplomatic mission. ”

Xiao Peng said speechlessly: "This should be considered diplomacy, right? Why don't we use a black car?"

Sun Pengcheng pointed around and said, "There's no way, there is no black car on this Youth Island, and we will be able to do it when we get to Havana." ”

Xiao Peng nodded after hearing this, and looked at the crocodile: "Why does this crocodile look so weird? Why does it still have a bone frame on its eyes? Wait, this is a Cuban crocodile?"

The owner of the crocodile was a dark-skinned old man, although his hair was gray, but he was in good spirits, and he nodded directly after listening to Xiao Peng's words: "That's right, you are very discerning!"

Xiao Peng and Sun Pengcheng were stunned in place, because the old man spoke Chinese!

The old man looked at the eyes of the two and smiled: "Cuban Chinese friendship lasts forever, isn't it strange that I know Chinese? My name is Fernando, I used to be a biology professor at the University of Havana, and now I'm an ordinary farmer. However, he is also involved in some scientific research projects, such as the conservation of Cuban crocodiles. ”

This Cuban crocodile is the rarest crocodile in the world, less than the famous Chinese alligator. This is because its living environment is so narrow, it only survives in the Zapatista Marshes and the Isla de la Juventud on the main island of Cuba. So several times endangered. However, the Cubans are also interested in this crocodile, actively protect them, establish three Cuban crocodile reserves, actively study artificial breeding technology, and rescue this crocodile again.

In this respect, they are treated much better than the alligators: although the alligators have been classified as a national first-class protected animal since 1972, today there are probably fewer than 200 alligators in the wild. For example, Xuancheng in Anhui Province has the world's only alligator reserve, but to this day, local residents still use the water from the pond where the alligator lives to irrigate farmland, herd cattle, raise fish, and herd ducks.

Moreover, the Chinese alligator is docile and timid, and it is not difficult to poach the Chinese alligator. There has always been a situation of catching wild Chinese crocodiles to eat and catching small Chinese alligators to sell for money. Therefore, the number of wild Chinese alligators has not been high. Therefore, the situation of Chinese Chinese alligators is very embarrassing, on the one hand, the number of artificially bred Chinese alligators in the breeding center is piled up one by one, and the number has reached nearly six figures. On the other hand, there are only one or two hundred wild Chinese alligators, and the number has been declining.

However, there is another reason why wild Cuban crocodiles are easy to protect compared to wild Chinese alligators, that is, this thing is too aggressive. They can jump out of the water with their whole body to prey! That's a very aggressive existence.

Don't look at the Cuban crocodile's size, it is less than three meters, but its temper is definitely the most irritable of all crocodiles, and it is also the fastest moving of all crocodiles, if people encounter Cuban crocodiles, they are likely to be attacked by it. So its wild protection is much better than that of the Chinese alligator, and there are probably more than 3,000 Cuban crocodiles in the wild。。。。。。

Xiao Peng asked, "Fernando, are you holding this Cuban crocodile a wild Cuban crocodile?"

Fernando nodded, "Of course!"

"Why did you catch it?" Xiao Peng's face was puzzled: "Are you going to send it to the artificial breeding center?"

Fernando shook his head: "Of course not, now the protection of Cuban crocodiles has encountered a very serious protection problem." That's the American crocodile. ”

Xiao Peng was even more curious: "If you say it's a caiman, I can understand it, after all, caimans eat baby crocodiles, what does this have to do with American crocodiles?"

Fernando smiled after hearing this: "Wow, I didn't expect you to know this knowledge, you are right, caimans have the habit of eating underage Cuban crocodiles, but that's not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is hybridization." 49.1 per cent of Cuban crocodiles in the wild today have mixed funds for American crocodiles. If this continues, the Cuban crocodile will be miserable. ”

Xiao Peng thought about it for a while: "This matter doesn't seem to be too difficult to solve, the living environment of the Cuban crocodile is a freshwater environment, while the American crocodile needs brackish water waters, and it is okay to find a freshwater environment for the Cuban crocodile to live, right? Freshwater is often the environment for human beings, isn't it? Can humans make way for crocodiles?"

Fernando's eyes widened when he heard this: "Young man, are you also a biologist?"

Xiao Peng shook his head: "No, no, no, oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself just now, my name is Xiao Peng, just a fisherman, but I like animals very much, and I have a lot of animals myself." ”

Fernando gave a thumbs up: "People who love animals are people with good hearts. But you're right, that's what we did, and we're now looking for genetically purebred Cuban crocodiles to release in the Zapatista swamps on the main island of Cuba. It's all fresh water there, and there are no Cuban crocodiles. ”

Xiao Peng looked admiring after hearing this: "Your animal protection is indeed much better than ours." ”

Fernando laughed: "The key is that we Cubans have few people and enough space for animals to live." If there is a conflict with humans, the animals still have to be sidelined, to give a simple example, let's say that this island of youth, originally a whole forest, now what? only the south is a forest, and it is still being cut down and planted------- who makes the pine wood here valuable. ”

Xiao Peng sighed, ironically, the diversity of animals is very important to human life and the earth's environment, but to protect animals, but to establish the premise of not affecting human life, if the animal environment and human life conflict, it must be animals to give way。。。。。。

"Brother Peng, the plane is ready, we can go. Sun Pengcheng beckoned next to an An-2.

After hearing this, Xiao Peng said to Fernando: "Aren't you going to take this plane?

Fernando shook his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness." Our aircraft is the one arranged by the Agrarian University of Havana. Not this one, and there are a few groups looking for wild Cuban crocodiles that haven't come, and I'm going to have to wait for them. And we're not going to Havana, we're going to the Zapatista swamps. ”

Xiao Peng smiled: "In that case, then I'll go first, Fernando, it's nice to meet you." ”

Fernando shook hands with Xiao Peng and said goodbye: "Me too! To be honest, I'm really happy to see my friends from Huaxia, but I have to get these crocodiles in a hurry, and I will attend a fishery technology exchange meeting in a few days." Let's exchange phone calls, and when I get back to Havana, I'll invite my Chinese friends for a drink. ”

Xiao Peng smiled after hearing this: "Then it doesn't matter, according to what you say, we will meet again soon." ”