These wild animals not only have great economic value, but also have important scientific research value. Protecting wild animals and making them multiply reasonably is of great significance for improving the natural environment, enriching people's cultural life and carrying out scientific research.
However, in recent years, the survival and reproduction of wild animals have been greatly threatened, and their numbers have become less and less. Among them, climate change or natural disasters lead to animal discomfort, human deforestation destroys the living environment of animals, and human beings kill wild animals at will. These precious animals are in danger of extinction if they are not protected.
1988165438+10 In October, China promulgated the Wildlife Protection Law, aiming at protecting and saving rare and endangered wildlife, protecting, developing and rationally utilizing wildlife resources, and maintaining ecological balance.
The state divides key protected wild animals into first-class protected wild animals and second-class protected wild animals. In addition to the national key protected wild animals, there are also local key protected wild animals in all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.
National first-class protected wild animals include 97 species such as giant panda, golden monkey, gibbon, crested ibis and red-crowned crane.
The second-class protected wild animals include 238 species such as red panda, pangolin, black bear, swan and parrot. There are also many kinds of wild animals specially protected in the local area.
Protecting wildlife is the obligation of citizens, because wildlife resources belong to the state and are part of public property. In addition, wildlife resources are natural resources with economic, ecological and social benefits. From the perspective of maintaining ecological balance, protecting wildlife resources means protecting human beings.
For example, swallows can help us eat pests in the field. If we humans kill them, will they eat mosquitoes that often disturb us and make us live better? Without swallows, there are many pests around us, which are very harmful to us!
Frogs, for example, can also help us eat field pests, which can be said to be field police. We killed them. Once there are no frogs, there will be more and more pests in the field, and pests will keep eating vegetables. Will we have a good harvest? Woodpeckers, for example, are doctors in the forest. They can help us eat pests on trees and make them healthy. If we kill them, there will be more and more pests on the trees and the number of trees will gradually decrease. There are no trees on earth, so there will be floods and earthquakes.
For example, owls, owls catching voles are good for us, but humans often hunt them. Without owls, voles will increase. Micro-holes eat more crops and vegetables, and we humans have no good harvest. Therefore, we should protect the above animals. Meanwhile, we should protect other wild animals! "Endangered animals" is a worrying sentence, which appears before our eyes again. Golden monkeys, seals, golden eagles, blue whales ... these lovely animals are left under the influence of the environment and the killing of human beings.
Whale Crisis:1On the morning of June 30, 980, in Silkrocks in northern South Wales, Australia, a group of sperm whales suddenly rushed to the narrow Tarecheri beach. In order to save these precious marine animals, people have tried everything to no avail. The whale was forcibly dragged back to the deep water, dragged in the sea for a while, and then returned to the beach, struggling painfully on the beach. For whales that have not been in the water for a long time, blood bubbles began to appear on the dry skin, and blood flowed out from the rupture.
It is reported that 58 whales died this time. There are many similar whale collective suicides: 1979, 16 In July, in Pauline Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada, 100 many whales were washed ashore, but none survived; June 5438+October 2003 10, 165 sperm whales ran aground on Stewart Island, South Island, New Zealand. ......
Why do whales commit mass suicide? Japanese scientist Yujiro Iwata uncovered the secret: he found a high concentration of toxic substance tributyltin (TBT) in Beijing. TBT corrodes nerves and destroys the sense of direction of animals. Tributyltin compounds are the most toxic substances that pollute the ocean. Tens of millions of liters of tributyltin compounds have been dissolved in the ocean!
Tiger's sad voice: the tiger is the largest cat in the world and is close to extinction. At present, there are only about 6,600 tigers left in the world, while the Barry tiger, the Java tiger and the Lihai tiger were gradually extinct in the 1930s.
Although governments around the world have repeatedly banned the killing of tigers, some people who love money often regard tigers as cash cows, which even the government can't restrain and the law can't subdue: 1967, 480 tigers were killed in India; 199 1 year, a large number of Siberian tigers were poached; 1993 In India, 867 Jin of tiger bones were seized from poachers. ......
However, there is still a ray of hope for a tiger. As long as each of us tries our best to help them, it is still possible for them to escape this do or die!
The newly exposed cases of killing giant pandas in Chongqing and selling panda skins and northeast tiger skins and bones in Jilin are shocking. It is hard to believe that such a thing will happen today when China has stepped into modern civilization and the concept of protecting the ecological environment has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Unfortunately, it did happen. The victims were not only giant pandas and Siberian tigers, but also thousands of national key protected animals.
In recent years, forest public security organs at all levels have always maintained a high-pressure situation against illegal crimes of destroying wildlife resources, and organized many special actions to crack down on illegal hunting, smuggling, trafficking, transportation and acquisition of wildlife, which basically curbed the upward trend of the number of cases and showed the firm determination of the China Municipal Government to protect wildlife and maintain ecological balance. However, cases of wanton destruction of wildlife resources still occur from time to time. Last year alone, more than 7,000 such cases were investigated and dealt with, and 0.4 million wild animals (heads) were collected, including more than 56,000 animals under special state protection. Moreover, major cases are increasing day by day, the number and level of animals involved are increasing, criminals' means of committing crimes are more concealed, and crimes tend to be organized.
We often say that "animals are friends of human beings", but according to the above facts, does human beings regard animals as friends? Everyone is contributing to the protection of animals, but some people are keen on killing wild animals. Did our "commitment" to animals fail? Haven't we all thought about the serious consequences of doing so? Don't harm endangered wild animals in any way, and ecological disasters can't be repeated!
Finally, as an earthman, I appeal to everyone: it is everyone's responsibility to protect animals.
On August 29th, in Hunchun, a small town located on the border between China, China and North Korea, Jilin Province and the neighboring Primorsky Territory of Russia signed the first cross-border protection network agreement for Siberian tigers. This agreement stipulates that China and Russia should regularly exchange information on the habitats of the Northeast Tiger and the Far East Leopard, send scientists and frontline protection personnel to each other's protected areas for training, adopt a unified method to monitor the tigers and leopards, and enjoy the information collected by radio tracking collars and other equipment.
This transnational protection network, which looks more like a scientific alliance, aims to allow tigers to spread to a wider space on the basis of existing protected areas. However, the shortcomings of knowing little about the territorial boundaries, areas and activities of tigers can also be broken through cross-border cooperation.
In the past 100 years, the number of wild tigers in China and Russia was like sitting at both ends of a seesaw. Today, 90% of the wild Siberian tigers in the world live in Russia, and only about 20 tigers remain in China. In the 1950s, the situation was completely different. At that time, there were only 50 tigers in Russian territory, while there were 200 tigers in China.
On August 29th, the Northeast Tiger signed the first cross-border protection network agreement with China, Russia and North Korea in Hunchun, a small border town, Jilin Province of China and the neighboring Primorsky Krai of Russia. This agreement stipulates that China and Russia should regularly exchange information on the habitats of the Northeast Tiger and the Far East Leopard, send scientists and frontline protection personnel to each other's protected areas for training, adopt a unified method to monitor the tigers and leopards, and enjoy the information collected by radio tracking collars and other equipment.
This transnational protection network, which looks more like a scientific alliance, aims to allow tigers to spread to a wider space on the basis of existing protected areas. However, the shortcomings of knowing little about the territorial boundaries, areas and activities of tigers can also be broken through cross-border cooperation.
In the past 100 years, the number of wild tigers in China and Russia was like sitting at both ends of a seesaw. Today, 90% of the wild Siberian tigers in the world live in Russia, and only about 20 tigers remain in China. In the 1950s, the situation was completely different. At that time, there were only 50 tigers in Russian territory, while there were 200 tigers in China.
Siberian tiger
Potential Habitat Distribution Map of Siberian Tiger in China (WWF/ map)
The former Soviet Union has a vast territory and a sparse population. Hunting of Siberian tigers was banned from 1947, and five years later it officially became the first country in the world to ban tiger hunting. During the same period, deforestation, hunting, war interference and intensive human activities in China pushed the Siberian tiger from Daxinganling and Changbai Mountains to the east and north further, and finally it was gradually pushed out of the border.
So far, there are only 20 Siberian tigers left in China, mainly distributed in Hunchun Nature Reserve and south of Laoyeling. Although the habitat environment is improving day by day, they are still in an extremely endangered state. At the same time, in recent years, the growth rate of tiger population in Russia has suddenly and unexpectedly decreased, which is considered to be due to the fact that the number of tigers in Russia is almost saturated and the carrying capacity of habitat environment is limited.
The changing history of the Northeast Tiger between China and Russia shows Zhu Chunquan, executive director of the Conservation Project of the World Wide Fund for Nature (China), the complementary space of tigers in the two countries. "This is the need of both sides." Wu Zhigang, a researcher at Jilin Academy of Forestry, has been tracking the tiger trail in Shan Ye for decades, and he feels the urgency of cooperation.
Wu Zhigang and many scientists who study tigers have long realized that without cross-border cooperation, it is even impossible to leave a suitable corridor for tigers to cross the Sino-Russian border. As early as seven or eight years ago, China's border guards planned to rebuild barbed wire. Through the coordination of the provincial government, Jilin Provincial Forestry Department put forward a suggestion to the border guards to leave a passage for tigers. The border guards gladly accepted it, but because they didn't know the overall route of the tiger crossing the border, they didn't know how alert the tiger was and couldn't cope. "Leave a hole for the tiger and build a corridor. Both China and Russia should consider it." Wu Zhigang regretted it.
Poaching, which has threatened the tiger's survival for many years, also needs transnational cooperation to combat it. Every time China tiger protection experts cross the border to Russia, Russian customs will arrange for China people to watch a documentary, which is full of footage of Russian border people illegally crossing the border, poaching in Russia and finally being caught with stolen goods. Wu Zhigang felt ashamed and resentful, but also more aware of the value of joint anti-poaching operations.
In addition, Russia has more than 60 years of protection experience, such as banning the felling of Korean pine and Mongolian oak, investigating and evaluating the current situation of tiger population in key areas of 16, and organizing teams of "tiger inspectors" (tiger patrol and anti-poaching teams). These experiences have been considered and adopted by government departments and protectors in China.
In fact, as early as ten years ago, at the first international conference to discuss the recovery plan of wild Amur tiger population in China, the idea of establishing a cross-border nature reserve was put forward. However, at that time, the idea was shelved because "the timing was not right, and the protection of the Northeast Tiger was not on the national priority agenda", which led to the birth of the first Northeast Tiger Reserve in China in Hunchun.
Until 2006, the State Forestry Administration and the World Wide Fund for Nature once again jointly discussed the topic of "the restoration of cross-border wild populations of Amur tigers". This time coincided with the ten-year hunting ban in Jilin Province, the number of wild Siberian tigers in China showed signs of increasing, and the speed of Russian Siberian tigers spreading to China also began to accelerate. Participants confidently suggested that Changbai Mountain area is the distribution center of Northeast Tiger in history, and China should adjust the protection intensity to the level that can allow Northeast Tiger to return to the whole Changbai Mountain forest area.
However, the agreement signed by Jilin and Russia's Primorsky Territory did not establish a transnational protected area, but established a protection network. Perhaps this is the beginning of tiger protection cooperation between China and Russia.
Shi Quanhua, an official of WWF's species project, explained that the cross-border protection network is to link the business units such as protected areas, protected communities and forest farms in the two countries, set consistent protection goals and act together. Yan Xun, deputy director of the Protection Department of the State Forestry Administration, also explained to the Southern Weekend reporter that in the past, you built the tiger reserves of the two countries and I built mine. Because it involves territorial sovereignty, we don't interfere with each other, but exchanging tiger information and taking the same action is the next step that both sides can take.
According to Changchun, director of the Protection Department of Jilin Provincial Forestry Department, signing an agreement with Primorsky Krai means that the Russian Far East and Jilin Province have reached an understanding on protecting the Siberian tiger, and both sides have * * * protected its habitat and cracked down on illegal poaching. The Sino-Russian border is an important corridor for the cross-border exchange of Siberian tigers. If the two regions cooperate well, "the Northeast Tiger will migrate to China without any obstacles, which will play a vital role in the recovery of the Northeast Tiger population in the future".
Zhu Chunquan said that the signing of the cross-border protection network agreement is "a milestone in the global protection of wild tigers this year". With the signing of local agreements, it is expected that China and Russia will carry out cross-border cooperation at the national level. Wu Zhigang's wish, simply put, is that the tiger can return to Changbai Mountain, its historical hometown.
Potential Habitat Distribution Map of Siberian Tiger in China (WWF/ map)
The former Soviet Union has a vast territory and a sparse population. Hunting of Siberian tigers was banned from 1947, and five years later it officially became the first country in the world to ban tiger hunting. During the same period, deforestation, hunting, war interference and intensive human activities in China pushed the Siberian tiger from Daxinganling and Changbai Mountains to the east and north further, and finally it was gradually pushed out of the border.
So far, there are only 20 Siberian tigers left in China, mainly distributed in Hunchun Nature Reserve and south of Laoyeling. Although the habitat environment is improving day by day, they are still in an extremely endangered state. At the same time, in recent years, the growth rate of tiger population in Russia has suddenly and unexpectedly decreased, which is considered to be due to the fact that the number of tigers in Russia is almost saturated and the carrying capacity of habitat environment is limited.
The changing history of the Northeast Tiger between China and Russia shows Zhu Chunquan, executive director of the Conservation Project of the World Wide Fund for Nature (China), the complementary space of tigers in the two countries. "This is the need of both sides." Wu Zhigang, a researcher at Jilin Academy of Forestry, has been tracking the tiger trail in Shan Ye for decades, and he feels the urgency of cooperation.
Wu Zhigang and many scientists who study tigers have long realized that without cross-border cooperation, it is even impossible to leave a suitable corridor for tigers to cross the Sino-Russian border. As early as seven or eight years ago, China's border guards planned to rebuild barbed wire. Through the coordination of the provincial government, Jilin Provincial Forestry Department put forward a suggestion to the border guards to leave a passage for tigers. The border guards gladly accepted it, but because they didn't know the overall route of the tiger crossing the border, they didn't know how alert the tiger was and couldn't cope. "Leave a hole for the tiger and build a corridor. Both China and Russia should consider it." Wu Zhigang regretted it.
Poaching, which has threatened the tiger's survival for many years, also needs transnational cooperation to combat it. Every time China tiger protection experts cross the border to Russia, Russian customs will arrange for China people to watch a documentary, which is full of footage of Russian border people illegally crossing the border, poaching in Russia and finally being caught with stolen goods. Wu Zhigang felt ashamed and resentful, but also more aware of the value of joint anti-poaching operations.
In addition, Russia has more than 60 years of protection experience, such as banning the felling of Korean pine and Mongolian oak, investigating and evaluating the current situation of tiger population in key areas of 16, and organizing teams of "tiger inspectors" (tiger patrol and anti-poaching teams). These experiences have been considered and adopted by government departments and protectors in China.
In fact, as early as ten years ago, at the first international conference to discuss the recovery plan of wild Amur tiger population in China, the idea of establishing a cross-border nature reserve was put forward. However, at that time, the idea was shelved because "the timing was not right, and the protection of the Northeast Tiger was not on the national priority agenda", which led to the birth of the first Northeast Tiger Reserve in China in Hunchun.
Until 2006, the State Forestry Administration and the World Wide Fund for Nature once again jointly discussed the topic of "the restoration of cross-border wild populations of Amur tigers". This time coincided with the ten-year hunting ban in Jilin Province, the number of wild Siberian tigers in China showed signs of increasing, and the speed of Russian Siberian tigers spreading to China also began to accelerate. Participants confidently suggested that Changbai Mountain area is the distribution center of Northeast Tiger in history, and China should adjust the protection intensity to the level that can allow Northeast Tiger to return to the whole Changbai Mountain forest area.
However, the agreement signed by Jilin and Russia's Primorsky Territory did not establish a transnational protected area, but established a protection network. Perhaps this is the beginning of tiger protection cooperation between China and Russia.
Shi Quanhua, an official of WWF's species project, explained that the cross-border protection network is to link the business units such as protected areas, protected communities and forest farms in the two countries, set consistent protection goals and act together. Yan Xun, deputy director of the Protection Department of the State Forestry Administration, also explained to the Southern Weekend reporter that in the past, you built tiger reserves in both countries and I built mine. Because it involves territorial sovereignty, we don't interfere with each other, but exchanging tiger information and taking the same action is the next step that both sides can take.
According to Changchun, director of the Protection Department of Jilin Provincial Forestry Department, signing an agreement with Primorsky Krai means that the Russian Far East and Jilin Province have reached an understanding on protecting the Siberian tiger, and both sides have * * * protected its habitat and cracked down on illegal poaching. The Sino-Russian border is an important corridor for the cross-border exchange of Siberian tigers. If the two regions cooperate well, "the Northeast Tiger will migrate to China without any obstacles, which will play a vital role in the recovery of the Northeast Tiger population in the future".
Zhu Chunquan said that the signing of the cross-border protection network agreement is "a milestone in the global protection of wild tigers this year". With the signing of local agreements, it is expected that China and Russia will carry out cross-border cooperation at the national level. Wu Zhigang's wish, simply put, is that the tiger can return to Changbai Mountain, its historical hometown.