After restarting the journey, Lin Xiaowan still talked about the elephant herd just now, especially the stupid baby elephants, you must know that many baby elephants are not proficient in using their noses at the age of one or two, and the long trunks are swaying on their faces like they are constantly calling.

Talking about baby elephants, Bell told them about the animal orphan adoption center in the reserve, Bell said that elephants are really special and very loving, elephants are mother clans, elephant orphans caused by their own reasons will be temporarily adopted by them, until they reach adulthood will be released back to nature, and their age difference is not much different baby elephants will be arranged together, they will also form a new elephant herd themselves, even one or two year old baby elephants will choose a mother patriarch by themselves, it is incredible that the mother patriarch may only be one or two years old, But she will shoulder the same responsibilities as the elephant herd in the wild, which is to protect the herd, unite the herd and take the initiative to take care of the baby elephants smaller than her, and if there is a conflict or fight between the members of the herd, she will mediate it. “

A one- or two-year-old baby will take care of other baby elephants? Lin Xiaowan thought it was amazing.

"Yes, I've been to the shelter to see it before, most of the baby elephants there are left behind because the mother elephant was killed by poachers, many babies are anxious and don't trust humans, they can easily die in this situation, if they have a patriarch, it's different, the baby elephant will rely on the patriarch and treat it as a mother, and the patriarch, although it may only be a few months older than it, will really take care of it like a mother, a very interesting group of guys, at that time I was most impressed by a shy baby elephant, It will not come into contact with the rest of the elephant herd, it will only follow the little patriarch, and whenever it sees it, it is sucking the ears of the little patriarch, and the little patriarch has never refused it. Bell talked about his previous experiences at the baby elephant shelter.

Thinking of such a warm and lovely scene, Lin Xiaowan was already a little star in her eyes, but when she thought of the poacher Lin Xiaowan, she was very angry, thinking that they should all be cut with a thousand knives.

But Bell's next words stunned Lin Xiaowan and Xia Wencai.

Bell said that foreign poachers kill all kinds of precious animals for money, of course, but they are only a minority, in fact, most poachers are locals. Xia Wencai didn't know much about this aspect, and he was puzzled after hearing this, so he asked: "Local poachers are also poachers, shouldn't they die?"

"I used to think the same way as you, but then I came to Africa a few times, and I had a lot of contact with the rangers here, and they told me that the locals here are indeed big poachers, but they are not for money, they are just for living." Bell said with a sigh.

"What do you mean?" Lin Xiaowan didn't turn a corner.

"In other words, if they don't poach, they will starve to death, and we seem to take it for granted, and we have forgotten that this is arid and poor Africa when we saw the prosperity of Nairobi." Xia Wencai also sighed and said.

Bell nodded and said: "Yes, I have also seen their living conditions, how can I really say that you eat as long as you can eat anyway, poaching is not to sell for money, just to eat meat, can you imagine monkeys, orangutans, baboons, is also one of their food."

It's the first time Xia Wencai and Lin Xiaowan have heard of such a thing, if this is the case, it's really hard to say who is right and who is wrong, they can only say that they are all forced.

Seeing that Xia Wencai and the two were a little depressed, Bell smiled: "Now the situation is much better, and the local government often does work for them, so that the aborigines know the importance of animals here, and with animals there is tourism, tourists, tourism taxes, and they can also get some support funds, so now relatively speaking, poaching is much less."

Soon after Bell finished speaking, the convoy stopped, Xia Wencai and Lin Xiaowan thought they had found some interesting animals again, but found that many rangers got out of the car and walked towards a bush.

"Xia, let's go, let's go take a look, we just talked about poaching, it seems that they have found something." After Bell finished speaking, he motioned for Simon and Hans to follow with the camera.

After Xia Wencai and a few people got out of the car, the rangers did not stop them, because they also knew the nature of Xia Wencai's trip.

After Xia Wencai and the others passed, they found that there were traps placed on the bushes and the branches next to them, the very simple kind, the steel wire was put into a live buckle and placed between the bushes, if there were passing animals were covered, they would move more and more tightly until they slowly died.

"This kind of trap is used by the locals to hunt large animals such as buffaloes, but often this kind of trap ends up catching very precious animals, lions, rhinos, elephants and other animals if they fall into it, and we have encountered many such things." The ranger removed the trap and explained to Xia Wencai and the others.

It was the first time Xia Wencai had seen such a simple trap, and he really couldn't imagine that such a simple wire ring could kill an animal like an elephant.

"What if you catch the guy who set the trap?" Xia Wencai asked curiously.

After several rangers looked at each other, one of them spoke: "It depends, if they have killed a rare animal, we will arrest him and lock him up, if it is just an ordinary thief to hunt some food, we will educate him and release him, if he does not succeed, we will warn him to release it, of course, this article is only for the aborigines who want to live, of course, there are more special ones, just like me, to become one of them."

Although the black man was full of smiles, Xia Wencai and the others seemed to feel deep helplessness, they didn't expect that he was once a poacher, yes, he can live a normal life, who wants to break the law.

The ranger said disapprerovingly: "After coming here to work, I also found that it seems that it is more useful to let the animals here be kept for more people to pay for them than to eat them, at least no one in our village is hungry now, so I am now more concerned about their survival than anyone else."

Xia Wencai and others were very emotional after hearing this, there is no big reason, there is no compassion and love for nature, it is indeed so real and moving, no matter what their starting point is, but the purpose is the same as them, to make these animals live better.

They were chatting, a ranger came over to report something, this person spoke the local language, they couldn't understand, seeing that the ranger just now hurriedly left, Xia Wencai and others also followed.

After walking a hundred and ten meters, they came to another bush, these rangers were obviously quite angry, Xia Wencai and the others followed over to take a look, and found that there was something strange hidden in the grass on the ground, that is, a flat round iron plate, covered with sharp iron nails.

"It's done by outsiders, and it's a trap that's used to hunt elephants and rhinos." The ranger explained to Xia Wencai and the others while clearing the trap.

"This pegboard can hunt elephants and rhinoceros? Their size hurts at most, right? Xia Wencai was a little puzzled......

"It's a cruel way to hunt, the nails are not clean, and if the elephant rhinoceros steps on it, the feet will slowly become infected and rot until they die in agony, and the poachers just have to track them down and remove their precious teeth."

Xia Wencai is really knowledgeable, the poaching in his impression before was a few thieves and thieves on TV, holding shotguns, and he could get it with one shot when he saw an elephant or something, but he didn't expect there to be so many ways in it. (To be continued.) )