Biodiversity plays a crucial role in the balance of the ecological environment on the earth. From species like blue whales and towering trees to species like small mice and microorganisms, they are indispensable to nature, and one less will cause great trauma to the natural environment.
Recently, after careful research by Chinese scientists, they found that humans evolved from fish billions of years ago. In the process of human evolution in , the ocean created a warm and safe ecological environment for us, and gradually developed onto the land.
As the top human at the wisest food chain at present, it has an unshirkable responsibility for the protection of the natural environment. The disappearance of any species is a huge loss for us. For example, what consequences will it bring if a tiger disappears from the earth? In fact, the lessons that Xinjiang tiger taught us back then cannot be forgotten.
From civilization ruins to King of beasts
Tigers are not a rare species on the earth, and they often appear in literary works in various countries. This is also easy to understand. After all, tigers and lions, one commands hundreds of beasts and the other dominates the forest, are symbols of ferocity and courage. There are still some primitive tribes who still regard tigers as their tribe's totem. It is also a very common phenomenon for foreigners to name their children "tigers".
Tigers belong to the feline family and are considered to be in places with a very high food chain. Most tigers live in jungles, swamps, grasslands and other places. Because these places can allow tigers to obtain sufficient energy, a large number of wild animals are the targets of tigers.
However, what we are going to introduce today, the Xinjiang tigers that existed in our country have nothing to do with these habitats. As a branch of tigers, this group of Xinjiang tigers have been living in Xinjiang before, and there are also traces of their lives in the Lop Nur area. To clarify this king of beasts, we must start with the discovery of the remains of our country's civilization.
At the beginning of the last century, although there were wars in various regions, this also gave many adventurers a lot of adventure opportunities. One of the famous explorer Sven Heding in modern history is one of them. He conducted adventures in many places, most of which were through archaeological excavations. He once came to China.
While exploring in Xinjiang, Sven Heding accidentally discovered the ancient city of Loulan in the desert, which was the capital of the ancient Loulan Kingdom that existed a thousand years ago. Whether it is world history or Chinese history, these are huge discoveries with far-reaching influence.
Extinction of Xinjiang tiger in the Gobi Desert
Sven Heding himself did not expect that this trip to Xinjiang would have such great gains. After returning home, Siwen Heding recorded the entire process of this expedition. In addition to the historical landscape of the Loulan Ancient City, he also introduced in detail the situation of the residents around the Tarim River Basin. In these introductions, he wrote about the image of local residents hunting tigers.
It is precisely because of these contents that the books written by Sven Heding not only attracted the attention of archaeologists, but also biology experts have become very interested in them. Svenheding's books record that Xinjiang tigers have been active in Lop Nur and other places at that time, and their main habitats are bushes and Populus euphratica , where wild boars and other creatures are for tigers to eat, but these are not enough.
Tigers can only move towards residential areas. Many of the poultry of local residents have been hunted by tigers. Residents usually raise cattle and sheep, and once the tiger eats it, they don’t eat it, and the residents don’t have any good feelings for Xinjiang tigers.
After a long time, people began to find ways to hunt these Xinjiang tigers. Compared with ordinary tigers, Xinjiang tigers are not very large, so they are more convenient to hunt. After people became familiar with the movement trajectory of Xinjiang tigers, they began to set up animal traps along the way.
After the Xinjiang tiger was caught, he basically had no ability to move, and people killed these dying tigers. After death, the meat will be eaten.However, this is not the greatest value of Xinjiang tigers. Any tiger with the greatest economic value is the skin on its body.
Local residents also realized the economic value of Xinjiang tiger skins, and more and more hunting actions for Xinjiang tigers. At that time, just a single skin could get their economic income for several years, which was a great temptation. is like this. After a large-scale hunt, Xinjiang tiger disappeared from the Earth's species list in 1979.
Many people have gained a lot of benefits from Xinjiang tigers. After Xinjiang tigers are gone, their lives are relatively safe and they have also obtained a lot of RMB, so everyone does not think there is anything wrong. But soon after, the local ecology began to change.
First of all, after the lack of natural enemies, the herbivores on the Gobi Desert began to breed in large numbers, just like Australian rabbits. The number of herbivores such as has increased sharply, resulting in the Gobi Desert, which has not had much vegetation, and cannot even find an oasis.
Ecology cannot destroy
The existence of species is the creation of nature. Only by reuniting and restraining these species can the balance within the ecological environment be maintained. However, after Xinjiang tigers were separated from stubbornness, herbivores were no longer threatened, and the vegetation of desert oasis was not as fast as the animals could eat.
In this way, the large ecology in Xinjiang was most severely damaged, the desert area increased, and the economic income of selling tiger skins was all lost in a few years. Only then did the local residents realize the serious consequences of destroying the ecological balance.
Nature is the best and most stable ecosystem in the world, and has been in a balance for millions of years. At that time, some biologists tried to deal with some ecological problems, and they wanted to know whether the artificial ecosystem was feasible.
They have built several ecological environments that simulate the earth, including various plants, animals and microorganisms, forming a closed-loop biosphere . However, these biospheres collapsed a few years later.
Conclusion
This point shows that the artificial "natural environment" cannot be equated with a real natural ecosystem. No matter how complete the biological conditions are in advance, they will still collapse in the end. The ecosystem of nature is our blessing. Apart from the existing nature, nothing is suitable for people to survive.
We should also deeply understand this point, and it is urgent to protect the ecological environment. Currently, there are still many poaching phenomena in various wild ecological zones, and various countries have also introduced corresponding protective measures. The responsibility of every person on earth to protect the ecological environment.
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