Chapter 673 How to protect animals?
On the 'Huaxia', in Xiao Peng's room, Xiao Peng took a hot bath, washed the two dogs by the way, and chose a suit from the closet to change into. Now how can Xiao Peng have the shadow of the backpacker who led his dog to play in the Scottish Highlands?
After Xiao Peng came out, he saw that Rebecca was still there pouting and angry------ when she was watching the circus just now, Xiao Peng was angry enough, she didn't understand what was wrong with her love for animals, and as a result, Xiao Peng was criticized for a long time.
If Xiao Peng knew what he thought, Xiao Peng would definitely say: It's not wrong to like animals, but don't stand on the moral high ground and say this and that to others, then it's not interesting.
Throughout history, there are only three kinds of animals that have gone extinct at the same time as human beings: those that rob human beings of living space, those that are too beneficial to human beings, and those that are too beneficial to human beings.
The first type is represented by various beasts of prey, such as the Newfoundland white wolf, the Bali tiger, the Kenai mountain wolf, the Cascade brown wolf, the Antarctic wolf, the Cape lion, the Barbary lion, the Hokkaido wolf, the Asian cheetah, the Caspian tiger, the Javan tiger, the Xinjiang tiger, all the wolves on the British islands, and so on.
The reason for the extinction of this group of animals is very simple: it is too dangerous for humans, affects the living space of humans, and competes with humans for living space?
In the final analysis, all human wars are for the sake of living space. Even kill people for the sake of living space, let alone this messy animal!
The vast majority of extinct animals are extinct because of this------ and their habitats are occupied by humans, and almost all animals and birds that live in the rainforest are because of this.
And there are many animals that go extinct because humans like them too much, and the key word is one: eat! Westerners say that Chinese people eat wild animals all day long, but in fact, there are really not many extinct animals in China because of eating them. Most of the animals in China are extinct because of the first reason------ occupying living space, such as white-sided dolphins, Yangtze white sturgeons, etc., all of which are extinct because a dam project has squeezed their living space.
The most pity should be the white sturgeon, now in the Yangtze River basin there is also a "thousand catties of lazi (Chinese sturgeon) ten thousand catties of elephant (white sturgeon)", this is a very precious big fish, but the white-sided dolphin in 2003 and 2007 have completely extinct.
Most of the extinct species are eaten by Westerners, probably because of their conscience, and the West is only now paying so much attention to wildlife protection.
For example, the famous manatee。。。。。。 The manatee is the only species of the manatee mother that has adapted to cold climates. From the discovery to the extinction, people found that this thing is full of treasures, whether it is skin, meat or fat, especially the legend that manatee fat tastes like almond oil, which is supremely delicious, so it only took 27 years for humans to extinct this species.
There are many animals that have been eaten extinct by humans, such as the domed Mauritian giant tortoise, the domed Rogliggs giant tortoise, and the saddle shell Rogrigues giant tortoise, which is a variety of giant tortoises that only live on small islands in the Indian Ocean, because they are slow and not afraid of people, they are very easy to catch, and the body is huge and the meat is delicious, and there is a thick fat that can be used to refine oil, which just solved the food supply problem of the sailors during that period, so in just one hundred years, all these three giant tortoises were eaten and extinct.
Nowadays, when you visit Mauritius, you can see a lot of giant tortoises on the island, but in fact, these are all Aldabra tortoises introduced from the Seychelles to attract tourists.
In fact, giant tortoises are very pitiful, when Darwin found an archipelago, called the Galapagos Islands, the whole archipelago is a paradise for tortoises, there are more than 250,000 tortoises in the entire archipelago. A total of fifteen subspecies of tortoises. Today, there are less than 3,000 of them, and five subspecies have been extinct。。。。。。
There are many, many more such examples, such as the moa that was eaten and extinct by the Maori people. Many scholars have come up with a theory to escape guilt that moa, like mammoths, were giant animals of the Ice Age and died out after the Ice Age ended. But in fact, the moa continued to live happily in New Lancy after the end of the Ice Age, until the Maori landed in New Lansi in 1200, and two hundred years later, the moa became extinct。。。。。。
There is also the ancestor of the cattle, the original cattle, which was eaten extinct by Europeans, and the great puffin, known as the 'Arctic penguin', was eaten extinct during the Age of Discovery------ and the most ironic thing is that on July 3, 1844, the last pair of great puffins were killed during the hatching of eggs. The reason why the puffins were killed was because many museums at the time were paying high prices for puffin specimens to educate the public about the significance of protecting puffins。。。。。。。
These are not the most astonishing, the most striking examples should be the extinction of the North American passenger pigeon, which fully demonstrates how amazing the destructive power of human beings to nature is, and the complete extinction of a species of astonishing race just because of one 'eat'.
The North American passenger pigeon is a small pigeon and is a migratory bird. When European colonists first arrived in North America, the number of North American passenger pigeons was probably around five billion. This is a staggering number, exceeding the size of most bird species, and it can be said that this is a very successful species, and it is unlikely that it will be in danger of extinction at all.
But the arrival of the Europeans changed all this, although the North American passenger pigeon is small, but the number is large, you can catch a large number of North American passenger pigeons, so the North American passenger pigeon became the best source of meat that year, and even many hunters went to the west to catch the North American passenger pigeon, which became a business.
As a result, this huge population, which was discovered in 1766, was completely extinct in 1914.
There are also many animals that are on the verge of extinction because people like to eat them, such as sharks and tuna. Well, the situation of sharks is related to China------ are Chinese people willing to eat shark fins, aren't they?
Now with the Chinese people have money, it is really what the Chinese people like to eat is about to become extinct, such as the famous 'Yangtze River Three Fresh': the Yangtze River anchovy is not found at all, the Yangtze River puffer fish is basically gone, and the farmed puffer fish is sold as the Yangtze River for a day in the Yangtze River. There is basically no real wild, and the price of ten wild Yangtze River puffer fish in the nineties is 20,000 yuan, which shows how precious it is, and the Yangtze River saury is now also a national protected animal, and it is illegal to catch it.
An example of the North American passenger pigeon is currently occurring in Huaxia as well, and that is the famous yellow-breasted bunting. You may not understand this name, but if you talk about Hehuaque, it will be a big name.
Cantonese people love to eat Hehua Finch, saying that it is 'heavenly ginseng', and its function is 'aphrodisiac and kidney'.
In China, no matter what it is, as long as it has something to do with 'tonifying the kidney', it must be very popular, who makes the obsession with aphrodisiac and health preservation in traditional Chinese culture a must?
In the past 13 years, bird dealers across the country have been selling their catch to Guangdong every year, turning this ubiquitous bird into a species that is more precious than the giant panda.
There are many such examples, what pangolin big yellow croaker and the like, speaking of big yellow croaker, uh, our domestic wild big yellow croaker is basically gone, so the rich Chinese people are eyeing the other side of the ocean, the Gulf of California totoaba fish, that is, the California big yellow croaker is now extremely rare, because the rich people in China want to collect their swim bladder, just like the rich collect big abalone。。。。。。 And what is the use of their swim bladders? Like pangolins and yellow-breasted buntings, they are 'aphrodisiac'!
The last animal to become extinct is extinct or on the verge of extinction because people don't like to eat it.
Many ancestral meats have tastes very different from mainstream meats, and since the emergence of the dominant breed in the industrial livestock industry a few decades ago, these traditional breeds have been greatly reduced or even extinct. Before World War II, farms were generally smaller, and crops and livestock were different in different regions, but these local breeds were not as good as those that grew faster after screening, required less space, and produced eggs, meat and milk, so they went extinct.
At least a few hundred species of livestock products that were once on the verge of extinction are now near-extinct, such as Texas longhorns, Ktonpa geese, modern cockfights, and San Clemente goats, to name a few.
Choctaw pigs, for example, are now less than 200 of them on the planet, and they can only be found on a few farms in a small town in Oklahoma, and that number could have gone extinct in a hurricane.
How to protect wildlife species is indeed a difficult problem. For example, a beast like a tiger and a crocodile has no living space at all! You say that a wildlife sanctuary should be established, where to build it, how to build it, who will pay for it, and if you run out of one, it will be troublesome!
As the protection of wild animals has become better and better in recent years, the number of wild boars that had almost disappeared in China has also returned, and many animal protectors have rejoiced. But what they don't know is that a wild boar can destroy 100 acres of fertile land overnight, and it is possible that a farmer's hard work in a year will be burned!
The greater the number of humans, the more animals will become extinct. It's good to know that protecting animals is a symbol of civilization, but it's an activity that has a long way to go. Instead of shouting a few slogans, this is a national problem, which requires national legislation and regulations.
It's like Rebecca has deep sympathy for the animals in the circus and thinks it's too cruel. However, the problem we need to face is that in the current world, if a species wants to survive, the first necessary condition is that it is beneficial to human beings! Xiao Peng even dared to say that if it were not for the fact that there were still so many circuses raising Siberian tigers, I am afraid that the number of Siberian tigers in China would not be as large as the South China tigers!
Just like the red gold acacia pig and the Randall cow, two species that were once on the verge of extinction, they turned out to be saved by the rancher because they were delicious!
Many people think that vegetarianism is to protect animals, and Xiao Peng can only give him a middle finger for such a person. Sometimes if you want to save a species, you have to use the method of 'eating' to save it, but don't eat them all.
As cruel as it is, it's just the way it is.
The 'human' species is so selfish.