Then Researcher Gu said to Fang Ye!

"When I did a survey of the distribution of green peafowl, they are only distributed in the three river basins of the Red River, the Lancang River and the Nu River, which may have the largest population of green peafowl, has been messed up by the hydropower station, and now there is a little left of the Lancang River and the Nu River, and the Red River is their largest habitat.

I haven't heard of the hydropower station you mentioned, but Xinping's words should be built on the section of the Red River.

The biggest crisis of the green peafowl right now is the loss of habitat!

Many people have a misconception that green peafowl live in dense tropical rainforests, but in fact they are not, the place where they live is a tropical monsoon forest, sparse and empty dry season deciduous vegetation, a bit like the African savanna environment.

Why do green peafowls like to be in this habitat? It may be that this dense and humid tropical rainforest, its thick feathers are prone to parasites, and it is uncomfortable to stay, right, this open habitat is conducive to the activity of green peafowl.

The most important thing is that the herbaceous layer of the tropical monsoon rainforest is very developed, the plants are grasses, ungulates and green peacocks like to eat this, the plants growing in the tropical rainforest are shade-tolerant but poisonous plants of the Araceae family, what Guangdong evergreen, many animals are at least green peacocks can not eat.

A lot of the monsoon forests over there have been cut down, so what are you doing, mainly planting mangoes and macadamia nuts as cash crops. So their habitat environment is now very retreating, in fact, deforestation is not counted, the river valley is the main area of tropical monsoon forest distribution, this hydropower station is built, as soon as the water rises, the habitat of the green peafowl is finished.

In the past, green peacocks were almost everywhere in Yunnan, and one of my predecessors who studied birds, in the 60s of the last century, was doing surveys there, and every day I could hear the call of the green peafowl and see the figure of the green peacock, but now this scene is of course impossible to see. ”

Fang Ye exclaimed, "Ah, what a pity. ”

Researcher Gu sighed: "Who says no, there used to be a large area of tropical monsoon forest over there in Pu'er, and once I went to investigate, a forest ranger told me that at the end of the last century, I took a boat all the way down the Lancang River, and in the morning I could see peacocks opening the screen by the river, elephants bathing in the river, bison and herons drinking water by the river, and hornbills flying overhead."

In such a beautiful place, how good it is to build a national park, no worse than those national parks abroad. However, after the construction of the hydropower station, the entire forest has now sunk to more than 100 meters below the surface of the water. It was so flooded that there was not even a single video material left, and I didn't even know how it disappeared.

The scenery is really special, special and beautiful. Especially in the dry season, the water is particularly clear, we have measured it, the water quality is a class of water, you can drink it directly, now you can find a few rivers in the main stream of the country, its water quality can also reach a class of water? You won't be able to find a few.

In addition to the beautiful scenery, the biodiversity here is also very rich, wild boar, leopard cat, red muntjac, there are turtles in the lower reaches of the Red River, there are their spawning grounds, in recent years a hydropower station has been built downstream, I don't know what the current situation of turtles is.

There are many beautiful birds, black-necked long-tailed pheasant, brown fishing owl, white-bellied golden pheasant, Chinese partridge, bee-eater, theoretically there are five species of bee-eaters, especially in May, a large number of this green-throated bee-eater and blue-throated bee-eater nest on the riverside of Shiyang River and Luzhi River.

I remember where Hainan was in order to protect the bee-eaters from nesting and breeding, and there was a protection area, and as soon as the hydropower station was built, it was gone anyway.

The plant is also very rich, the geographical environment of this place is very unique, the landscape of the dry and hot valley is not only in Africa, but also in China, in the Red River in Yunnan, the vegetation is also related, it may be that there is a piece of drift in the process of the Indian section drifting here, this is very complicated to expand. ”

Fang Ye couldn't help but ask: "With such a good natural resource, it stands to reason that the environmental impact assessment can't be passed when this hydropower station is built?" ”

Researcher Gu smiled bitterly: "Who knows." Anyway, too many places are so silently submerged, there is nothing to be done. No matter how good the foundation is, you can't help but make it! ”

Fang Ye thanked him: "Teacher Gu, I really thank you for taking the time to help me solve my doubts today, and it is so detailed!" The two teachers I asked before didn't really want to talk about this topic. ”

Researcher Gu said: "Teacher Gu is too uplifting, I am just younger, and I have fewer worries!" Because of mixing in the circle, the more qualified you are, the more inconvenient it is to say some things, and there may be background forces in all aspects behind you, and you may offend people when you say it. And somebody has to rely on this EIA to eat, you know. Eh, in fact, these words have been held back for a long time, and I will tell you in private. ”

"Okay, I'll ask you if there's anything I want."

After Fang Ye hung up the phone, he opened the website and frowned to find the EIA report of the Gaba River Hydropower Station.

It seems that except for some projects involving confidentiality, the EIA report must be publicized!

He was not very familiar with where to find the EIA report, and in the process of searching, he also saw some news about the large-scale "water abandonment" of hydropower stations.

Probably that is to say, the installed capacity of hydropower has grown explosively in recent years, the power generation capacity of the grid far exceeds the total electricity demand of the market, there is a serious surplus of hydropower, and a large amount of hydropower has been wasted.

Looking at the report, Fang Ye was speechless for a while, and continued to find the EIA report!

After a while, I finally found it on the public website, the full text is a total of 599 pages, quickly turn the page, and find the part related to the green peacock: "The project covers a total of 1800.03hm2 (10,000 square meters) of inundated forest land and reservoir inundation, and the vegetation within the submerged and occupied area will be destroyed, resulting in a certain amount of plant biomass loss, and the integrity of the terrestrial ecosystem in the local area may be affected to a certain extent, and the wild animals that originally inhabited here will be forced to relocate."

…… There is no obvious difference in the inundation habitat of different water levels, which will not change the flora and fauna of the region, and will not lead to species extinction, but will only have a certain impact on the number of species. ”

Fang Ye had nothing to say: "Is this the environmental impact assessment that does this?" What do you mean you're going to be forced to relocate? Translation, what does it mean that it will not lead to the extinction of species, but will only cause a certain impact? ”

When I was talking to researcher Gu on the phone just now, they made it very clear that the habitat of the green peafowl is the monsoon forest in the river valley, and it is impossible to live in other places.

Forced to relocate, the habitat is either cut down and planted with cash crops, or flooded by a hydropower station, and there is a small piece left, how to relocate?