"It's almost impossible to push the government to enact laws on insecticides and herbicides, or to establish a sanctuary for monarch butterflies in the wilderness, but researchers have made some models and found that increasing the amount of food available to monarch butterflies in cities could help protect them."

The diet of the monarch butterfly is milkweed, which is a sap-rich plant, and people thought, can we use much less money to send a bag of milkweed seeds to the residents of this area, and ask the residents to sprinkle this seed in the small garden of the city, sprinkle it in their own backyard or on the field, and the network of these milkweed can reverse the fate of the monarch butterfly.

There were failures and dramatic successes, and it was discovered that the idea was actually valid, and when the seeds of the milkweed were sent to the residents, one milkweed garden after another appeared in the city.

Some worthless wilderness itself, because of the presence of these flowers, has become a more beautiful urban landscape, attracting more wildlife, improving the quality of residential areas, and even attracting commercial investment.

So the city may not be a biodiversity-poor place, but perhaps in the future, the city can serve as a habitat for the protection of keystone species. Although the scale of green space in the city is small, there are many organisms that are very small. ”

Fang Ye wrote down this story in his heart: "I think this is a good example, thank you, teacher." ”

Wang Yan added: "The number of monarch butterflies has dropped a lot in the past two years, hitting new lows repeatedly, and the situation seems to be particularly bad this year, which should also have something to do with the wildfires in the United States." ”

Fang Ye is helpless, in recent years, global warming, extreme weather has occurred frequently, the impact on butterflies is very fatal, coupled with the use of pesticides and herbicides, planting some milkweed in the city may be a drop in the bucket.

How effective it is is another matter, but this kind of experiment is still very positive, allowing visitors to understand a way of thinking about getting along with animals, and that symbiosis is a friendly and mutually beneficial thing.

In the future, if you build an urban animal exhibition area, you can get some king butterflies and a garden landscape.

The zoo not only shows the star animals such as tigers and pandas, but also needs to guide visitors to pay attention to the inconspicuous animals such as insects, which are also very important, and it is even more difficult to count and study their population survival.

I chatted with Wang Yan about other things.

Wang Yan is not only a researcher, but also a teacher at the school.

One of the rough feelings of scientists who talk about their own conservation biology is to see the changes in the world before others, and to see the threats and dangers that may arise.

One of the tasks to prepare for this semester is to conduct a survey to see the distribution and habits of raccoon dogs in Linhai City.

When I saw the raccoon dog last night, I was not only shocked by its courage and spirit of exploration, but also had a faint premonition of a conflict behind it that might contain in the future.

Maybe in another ten or eight years, the raccoon dog will be fully adapted to the city, and its habits will also change, and it may become the same existence as the North American raccoon.

At that time, there may be some problems of human-animal conflict, such as the parasites and germs brought by raccoon dogs, so doing some research in advance can also prepare for the future.

Fang Ye mentioned that because of the milk tea wild boar incident, some infrared cameras were placed around the village near Linhai City, and the data collected by these infrared cameras could be handed over to Wang Yan and them for analysis and research.

Not only scientific research cooperation, but also to invest money and sponsorship for Wang Yan's team.

Although they only chatted for half a day, he felt that Wang Yan was worthy of being a researcher at Galaxy University, and the scientific research work was still handed over to professional people.

Wang Yan is happy!

Isn't the most worrying thing about doing scientific research is funding, I didn't expect Fang Ye to be so bold, and he started talking about money not long after they met.

Before I came, I heard from a friend who matched him that Fang Ye was a very rich second generation, who had set up a zoo by himself, and he was very level, and he was usually very humble to ask them questions, not the kind of gentleman who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it.

When I saw it today, it was true.

The impression of Fang Ye is also good, and the two have a good conversation.

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Recently, the zoo has become more lively.

The introduced Sichuan snub-nosed monkey and Japanese macaque were transported to the zoo and entered the stage of quarantine.

The exhibition hall has been almost built, and the system construction team does not have such a statement as a holiday and rest, and is still working diligently during the New Year!

After the quarantine is completed, the exhibition will be held in about March.

The two climbing pavilions also introduced some new animals, such as king cobras and so on.

The new animal brought a large amount of green leaf coins into the account, which was timely renewed for the follow-up construction of the elephant house.

The elephant exhibit area is so large that it is estimated that it will take April to be completed, which is already super fast.

The pavilion of the panther is under construction, also in April, and the jaguar is on its way.

There was already a panther, so I didn't go out of my way to buy a panther, and one of the males introduced was of a normal color.

The leopard's pavilion can be smaller, mainly to provide them with some trees to climb.

In contrast, in order to save green leaf coins, the hot spring hotel is to spend money to hire the construction team to build, the speed is extremely slow, it is expected to be completed in May, and the decoration is estimated to take another month or so, and it will be officially opened in June.

In addition to patrolling the zoo every day, Fang Ye will also go to the quarantine to see the new Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey, contact the black panther to get in touch, go to the animal hospital to see the lion cubs, and go to Xiaoyu's delivery room to visit a few wolf cubs.

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Quarantine site.

Fang Ye chatted with the staff, asked about the animals, and came to the cage of the Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey.

Two golden snub-nosed monkeys were squatting on a log in the middle of the cage, grooming each other's fur, and the other was sitting nearby, and a smaller one was walking around.

Fang Ye watched with relish!

The head and limbs of the golden snub-nosed monkey are brownish-red, and the fur of the belly is snow-white, with a little light gold on the outside.

The fur on his back is golden, strands and long strands, and the image is a bit like a beggar gang in martial arts, wearing several layers of tattered clothes, and the clothes are torn into long strips.

However, compared to the beggars, the golden fur of the Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey is undoubtedly much gorgeous!

Moreover, the people in the beggar gang are all bearded, have long hair, look dirty and messy, and the head of the golden monkey is round and fat.

There are a total of 4 golden snub-nosed monkeys introduced this time, and the most burly and majestic in the middle of the cage is the leader Dabao, whose wife Yaya will comb Dabao's hair, and the other Lili, who is Dabao's wife.

There is also a one-year-old little golden snub-nosed monkey Xiaobao, walking around and looking quite lively.

The golden snub-nosed monkey is also a very rare animal, and the introduction of four at a time is already a big deal.

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