Fang Ye said: "The dilemma faced by giant pandas at that time was far from being as simple as bamboo flowering, and there was no food to eat, and they were about to starve to death.

Investigators went over to investigate and found more than 20,000 traps in one place.

Although pandas have no edible and medicinal value, so poaching against giant pandas is not serious, but these traps arranged for other animals will be stepped on by giant pandas, and the slightest carelessness will be pinched and broken legs, and even killed.

And at that time, people's awareness of ecological protection was generally very weak, and some county leaders said that people could not eat enough, so why should they protect giant pandas?

In the homes of some villagers, more than 400 giant panda skins were confiscated, as well as some golden monkey skins. ”

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The surrounding tourists all exclaimed in amazement.

With 400 giant panda skins, what is the number of giant pandas in the wild now? It's only about 1,000, right?

With so many giant panda skins, you can imagine how dangerous their situation was back then.

"Of course, there are still some villagers who are kinder, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, have the simple truth passed down from their ancestors, and know sustainable development, although there was no such word back then.

When pandas come to the house for help, they will provide them with food to eat. At that time, there were no roads convenient for walking in the reserve, and the foreign staff were not familiar with the terrain, so when they went into the mountains to investigate and look for giant pandas, the villagers took the initiative to lead the team, and some villagers directly rescued the giant pandas on the front line and carried out the dying giant pandas. ”

Fang Ye said: "The trap is actually not the main factor, the most important thing is the disappearance and fragmentation of the habitat!"

It was said before that pandas are not afraid of bamboo flowering, which is based on the premise of intact habitat.

Road paving, deforestation, farmland reclamation, dam construction, the panda's habitat is divided into small patches, like isolated islands.

Originally, the bamboo blossoming of this mountain could go to another mountain, but now because of the blockage of roads, farmland, and deforestation, they can only wait to starve to death.

There is one person to mention here, Professor Pan.

At that time, everyone thought that the bamboo was blooming, and the pandas were going to starve to death, so they might catch all these wild pandas, and artificial captivity could save them.

However, after Professor Pan's investigation and research, it was found that although a large number of bamboos died, it was far from the extent that pandas starved to death. The photo of the death of the giant panda is also in an area where there are no bamboo flowers.

Resisting the pressure, he wrote a research report and submitted it, expressing his firm opposition to the breeding of wild pandas, which would only destroy the population structure of wild pandas and may lead to their loss of breeding.

Because of the detailed report, the plan for the captive farm was stopped. It can be said that he single-handedly saved the fate of the panda group. ”

Liu Xueqing listened, and there was a thrilling feeling!

Thinking about the giant pandas being captured and kept in captivity, I feel that the consequences are very serious.

Japan's crested ibis is a lesson from the past, and the last few seedlings were caught, but they were not successfully bred and went extinct.

Giant pandas have a strong ability to reproduce in the wild, and they all become frigidity in captivity.

"At that time, the deforestation in the 80s, especially in the 90s, when the national timber market was opened, more trees were cut down if they wanted to make a fortune, and the survival of pandas was greatly threatened. Fortunately, the nature reserve was established and the logging stopped.

Protecting animals and habitats is the most fundamental thing, and captive breeding is just a remedy.

But now there is a new threat. Overgrazing, livestock will also gnaw on bamboo, leading to changes in the panda's habitat. Because we now have increased demand for meat, increased grazing, and in some places even a third of the panda's habitat has been degraded. ”

Fang Ye saw everyone contemplating and said, "When we talk about protecting animals, it is not enough to just study animals and the environment in which they live, and people are also one of the key factors.

It does not mean that the protection of animals will ignore the survival of people, but that the economic form of the protected area should be changed as much as possible, and some alternative economies should be found, so that both residents and the environment can benefit, and the best protection is when the community participates in the conservation.

For example, in the big cat valley in Angsai, Qinghai, where herders' livestock are preyed upon by snow leopards, the reserve hires herders as environmental monitors, arranges infrared cameras on the mountains to monitor the activities of snow leopards, provides scientific data, and develops eco-tours, where experienced herders take tourists to visit snow leopards.

In the Guanba area of Sichuan, which used to rely on felling trees and hunting as a source of income, the environment has deteriorated, but now it has tried to replace cutting down trees through beekeeping, and the environment has improved, all kinds of rare animals have returned, the number of special cold-water fish has increased, and the income has also become higher.

Let me tell you another story about Professor Pan.

After finishing his expedition to the wild giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains in '96, he set his sights on the white-headed langurs in Guangxi.

At that time, the natural environment was also greatly damaged, and the population of white-headed langurs was less than 100.

Professor Pan found that local residents are accustomed to cutting down trees to make fires for cooking, and many people's yards are full of firewood, and the surrounding land has reached saturation, and the annual demand for firewood is much greater than the natural growth rate of trees.

If this situation continues, not only will the number of trees continue to decline, but the survival of the white-headed langur will face greater difficulties, the environment will become harsh, and the local people will become more and more impoverished.

So Professor Pan thought about it, and if he wanted to protect the white-headed langur, he first had to let the people eat without cutting down trees.

At first, he paid 1,500 yuan out of his own pocket to help two families carry out biogas transformation, but due to lack of experience and insufficient funds, the results were not ideal.

Later, he received a bonus of 100,000 yuan, which he used to build a biogas digester in the village.

After posting a notice to buy cow dung, every household rushed to deliver cow dung, and soon discovered the benefits of biogas. Later, the Ministry of Agriculture funded the construction of biogas digesters in more than a dozen surrounding villages, and since then, the local villagers' centuries-old habit of cutting firewood for cooking has changed.

When Professor Pan asked again, the villagers said that they would not cut down trees, that it was not much more convenient to use biogas, and that cutting trees was like killing piglets, which was really a poor family and had no choice but to do so.

Instead of going over mountains and mountains to cut down trees, the villagers have time to do other things, and they have planted sugarcane in the fields.

The local vegetation has gradually recovered, the trees have increased, and the range of the white-headed langur has increased, and the population has increased year by year, and the total number has now reached about 1,000. ”

The tourists listened attentively and were amazed!

"Yummy!"

"What a great scientist, unparalleled in the country!"

"Being responsible for animals is also responsible for people. Harmony with nature is what we are looking for. ”