Early in the morning of October 10, Xining Wildlife Park's official Weibo published a special obituary:
Xiye's celebrity animal, internet celebrity rabbit horn horn simiao, because of careless eating, he went to Meow Star early that morning at the age of 7. As soon as the news came out, countless netizens and fans expressed their condolences for Simiao.
The first time I met the rabbit horn was because of the emoticons that were circulating on the Internet.
This little animal looks like a cat, but it has three points of wildness and five points of silly cuteness, which is a must-have for many people to fight pictures on their mobile phones.
small legs, big square face, and dot-shaped pupils show wisdom.
No matter how you look at it, they are all a big "cat" that carries the madness and the madness to the end.
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It is not only an internet celebrity "cat" who became popular with emoticons.
also represents the country's achievements in the field of wildlife protection :
It is the only male rabbit in China that is raised in captivity.
is also the first rabbit in China to successfully breed the next generation.
science popularization V Infinite Xiaoliang has made a special trip to meet with Jing Si Miao.
The fox star in the same frame has also become a famous scene that many fans talk about.
Rabbit horn, it is the only species under the genus Rabbit horn of the feline family, mainly distributed in the plateau area of about 4,000 meters above the Eurasian continent.
From the forests of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in my country, to the deserted beaches of Siberia, to the hills of Central Asia, there were once a large number of rabbits active.
The reason why html is once because the number of rabbit worm population is declining sharply.
According to data statistics, in 2020, there are only about 58,000 mature rabbit zombies left.
The number of rabbit horns has been greatly reduced, which is inseparable from human activities.
poaching behavior is the most direct reason for the reduction of rabbit trolls.
Rabbit horn has thick fur and is a precious treasure in the eyes of hunters.
In the 1950s, when rabbit trolls were not yet protected, nearly 10,000 rabbit trolls were harvested in western my country alone in a year.
As poaching is rampant, the amount of rabbit fur is also decreasing year by year.
By the mid-1970s, only 500 to 700 pictures were collected every year, and in the 1980s, there were only dozens of pictures left.
Rabbit is gradually dying under the gun of a hunter.
Fortunately, with the efforts of the animal welfare agency, rabbit worms have been listed as a national second-level endangered protected animal, and neighboring countries have successively banned the hunting and killing of rabbit worms.
However, even if you escape the hunter's gun by chance, the rabbit still has to face the consequences of human expansion.
Horse is an animal that relies heavily on the living environment.
They have short legs, run slowly, and are not good at digging pits, so they can only live in caves and forests with complex terrain.
The gradually increasing range of human activities allows the living space of rabbits to be squeezed and divided bit by bit.
In desperation, the rabbits could only retreat to the deep mountains and forests that were getting farther and farther away from the place where humans lived.
And those rabbits who try to make a living around humans are at risk of being poisoned to death by mistake.
Rabbit is not the raccoons in the Ghibli animation " Heisei raccoon ". They can transform and use illusions.
can still unite and deal with humans.
They can only survive in the gaps in the human world.
Fortunately among humans, there is also a group of people committed to protecting these natural elves.
is like the home of Simiao: Xining Wildlife Park .
Ten years since its establishment, Nishino has rescued more than 1,500 different endangered wild animals.
Despite the shortage of funds and the equipment is old, Nishino still goes to rescue the rare animals with full enthusiasm.
Today's rabbit horn has been demoted from being in the IUCN red list, from "near danger" to "no danger".
This also means that on the road to saving rabbits, Nishino and the world's animation organizations have achieved phased success.
While mourning the departure of Si Miao, we must also see the "good luck" that Si Miao brings to the entire ethnic group.
If you know this, Simiao can also go to Meow Star with confidence.
Thanks to Nishino and Kassi Miao, rabbit snails can be valued and protected by more people.
But not all animals will have such good luck.
For example, white sturgeon , it will never be possible to obtain its own "现子子".
On July 21, 2022, World Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that the paddlefish was officially extinct.
White sturgeon is a unique fish in our country and has lived in the Yangtze River basin for thousands of years.
As a few large carnivorous fish in China, the white sturgeon is nearly 3 meters long and rarely encounters an opponent in the Yangtze River. It is called " King of Freshwater Fish ".
Because the head is larger, the nose kiss is longer, and it looks like an elephant, the white sturgeon is also called "elephant fish".
In ancient times, the white sturgeon was widely distributed. Because of its domineering appearance, it was also considered a "Internet celebrity" animal.
The poem "Have tuna and pine" in " Book of Songs " describes the white sturgeon again.
In " Book of Rites " and "The Book of Zhou", there are also sentences describing the white sturgeon, such as "The emperor first took a boat and recommended tuna to the temple".
has been in the Yangtze River Basin for thousands of years. The fish king who witnessed the development of Chinese civilization has suffered a catastrophe in recent decades.
The source of the disaster is naturally the increasingly greedy human beings. Since the 1970s, people have increased their efforts to develop the Yangtze River, and many dams, factories and docks have risen from the ground.
However, some fishermen have set their sights on the huge and delicious white sturgeon. After
Afterwards, what awaits the paddlefish are no longer clear and free river water, as well as fishing nets and fishing boats all over the sky.
Throughout the 1970s, as many as 25 tons of white sturgeons were caught on the shore every year.
The former freshwater fish king once became a struggled prey in the fishing net and was sent to the dining table .
In addition to uncontrolled fishing, gradually serious pollution and increasingly busy shipping have made the living space of the paddlefish worse.
Since 1985, the number of paddlefish has begun to decline in a cliff-like manner.
When people realize that the paddlefish is about to endanger extinction, it is too late. In the past 10 years from
1985 to 1994, Dr. Wei Qiwei, who has devoted his life to protecting the paddlefish sturgeon, has only rescued 4 paddlefish in total.
But only one white sturgeon survived with the rescue and was released to the Yangtze River.
The last time the paddlefish appeared was in the early 2003.
Scientists have rescued a dying white sturgeon with a terrifying wound on his body.
After being stitched for 24 stitches, it slowly recovered, and scientists installed a tracker to observe it after release.
One day in 2004, this paddlefish disappeared into the surging Yangtze River water together with the faint tracker signal.
Since then, the paddlefish has completely disappeared in this world.
There are many pessimistic scientists who published a paper ten years ago that the paddlefish has become extinct, but there are still some people who maintain a glimmer of hope.
It was not until 2022 that the white sturgeon was officially declared extinct, and the last glimmer of hope was shattered.
January 1, 2021, Ministry of Agriculture issued a notice on banning fishing in the Yangtze River Basin. Since then, the Yangtze River has entered a "ten-year fishing ban period".
This may be the last remedy we can make to the paddlefish and countless fish in the Yangtze River.
In 2019, the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation released a regrettable news: China's wild pangolin has become functionally extinct.
" functional extinction " has caused a lot of controversy, and many industry bigwigs are questioning this conclusion.
But it is undeniable that the survival of Chinese pangolin is indeed very bad.
According to a 2021 report, in the past decade, only 142 wild pangolins have been confirmed in my country.
On the IUNC list of endangered animals, Chinese pangolins have always been a "critically endangered" species, and they are only one step away from real extinction.
The reason for the extinction of pangolins is a helpless misunderstanding.
Since ancient times, pangolin scales have been said to have the effects of "unblocking menstruation and treating rheumatism".
But in fact, modern biologists have long issued a statement saying that the composition of pangolin scales and human nails is no different.
. Traditional medical community also says that pangolin stewing soup is actually similar to pig's trotters.
Even so, some people still stubbornly believe that "pangolin scales have different effects!
people ignore science and facts and choose to succumb to the most primitive greed.
If there is greed, there is a market, there is a market, there is a hunting.
If there is greed, there is a market, there is a hunting.
If there is greed, there is a market. 0 Hunting pangolins is undoubtedly a simple task for hunters.
In danger, pangolins will instinctively shrink their body and curl up into a big "pine cone".
as usual, use thick scales to protect the cubs and fragile abdomen.
thick armor can resist the sharp teeth of natural enemies, but The hunter's backpack cannot be stopped.
Hunter is like picking up pine cones. He picks up pangolins curled up on the ground. What awaits them is the fate of being thrown into boiling water and then breaking out of his stomach.
s in the past few years, the popular movies and novels of tomb-robbing themes have turned the flipside theory of "roasting pangolin scales with fire can ward off evil spirits."
Pangolin scales have become the cultural relics that some young people are keen on, and have once again become the focus of poachers.
From 2000 to 2013, about 1 million pangolins were hunted nationwide, and the overall number has dropped by 95%.
Even old hunters who had been engaged in hunting decades ago admitted that they rarely saw pangolins recently.
Pangolins that were once scattered all over the mountains are hard to find now.
When calls for protecting pangolins rose, people began to boycott pangolin products.
In order to make people put aside their guard, some illegal vendors began to declare that "their pangolins are breeded."
But little do you know that pangolins, which are extremely sensitive to the environment and have extremely strong stress response, cannot be cultivated on a large scale at all.
Currently, there are only 4 zoos that have successfully bred pangolins artificially, with only 4 zoos in the world.
In China, only the Taipei Zoo in Taiwan Province has successfully bred pangolins to the third generation.
. Raising pangolins is simply a lie made up by merchants against their conscience.
But compared to cold-blooded hunters and merchants against their conscience, ordinary people who consume pangolins are not the source of sin?
Some people say that the extinction of species is the result of natural selection and the only way for nature to evolve.
However, the evil consequences caused by human greed will always accelerate this process.
even sounds the death knell for species that are completely unnecessary to extinction.
Every year, more than 140,000 species in the world are extinct.
Among them, many people are sent to the execution ground by humans themselves or indirectly.
In Nanhaizi Miluyuan in Daxing District, Beijing, a group of "extinct animal tombstones" are erected.
Every year, the tombstones of each animal fall down one after another, appearing to the shape of a pouring domino.
And on the last few monuments that have not yet fallen, it is clearly written "human".
Just like this big hand that blocks the fall of the stone tablet, more and more people are now preventing all this from happening.
There is Xining Wildlife Park, which has been saving wild animals for more than ten years despite poverty;
also has Dr. Wei Qiwei who is guarding the Yangtze River every day and paying attention to the paddlefish, , Yangtze River Sturgeon ;
As ordinary people, what we can do is actually very limited.
In addition to rejecting animal performances and boycotting wildlife trading.
We can also follow more and more interesting wild animals just like we follow Simiao.
If one can save the entire rabbit sacred clan.
so nature may need more "玉子子".
They are not only cloud suck pets, but also our neighbors on this planet and are closely related to the fate of mankind.
Rescue them is saving ourselves.
