is about 30 meters, that is the closest time between Li Yang and Tiger.
In late July, it was the hot summer of Hunchun in Jilin Province. In the primitive mountain forests, dense grass and bushes blocked the sight of people and tigers-Li Yang did not see the Siberian tiger .
The Siberian Tiger might not have seen Li Yang either-he was wearing a grass-green patrol suit, submerged in the dark or shallow green plants around him.
But obviously, both the human and the tiger rely on their sense of smell or hearing to confirm the existence of each other-the forest is quiet, and the sound of the foot on the fallen leaves is very clear.
The first warning was the tiger. Those two suppressed low roars were lower and more majestic than Li Yang had imagined. "It's like a person is angry and wants to behave."
But Li Yang didn't have a trace of fear. "Tigers are afraid of people, no animals are not afraid of people", he was convinced. Behind the tiger's active "demonstration" is actually mixed with fear and anxiety-cats have a strong sense of territoriality.
There is no need to overreact, Li Yang stood there, and then heard a rustling sound-the tiger is gone, it didn’t know that the strange smell in front of him was just to protect it and the same kind. The captain of the "Recreation Patrol Team".
This unexpected encounter made Li Yang secretly happy-in his daily patrols, his close contact with the Siberian tiger is usually limited to different shades of footprints, or feces and hair.
More and more people meet each other, which means that the number of Siberian tigers is increasing-this is the goal of his work. In the next more than a month, Li Yang did not talk about the unexpected "meeting" with the team members, "I was afraid that they would be upset."
Compared with Li Yang’s close encounters, Feng Limin’s relationship with the Siberian tiger is too shallow-as the deputy director of the Siberian Tiger and Leopard Monitoring and Research Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and the National Field Scientific Observation of Siberian Tiger and Leopard Biodiversity The deputy head of the research station, he has been studying Siberian tigers for more than ten years, and he has only seen them in the video, and has never seen them in reality.
Wang Ying has never seen a Siberian tiger, she has only seen the footprints of a Siberian tiger.Roll up your trousers, walk through the cold knee-high water, or through the soybean field, you can find two plum blossom-shaped tiger footprints, like beautiful and clear seals.
As the founder and CEO of RELX, she is accustomed to using numbers to make decisions. Statistics in 2014 show that at that time, there were only 27 wild Siberian tigers and 42 wild Northeast tigers in China. Leopard, this figure makes her unbelievable and very worried. This is the origin of the "Northeast Tiger and Leopard Returning to the Northeast" project initiated by RELX.
In early September, farmer Li Yang, scholar Feng Limin, and entrepreneur Wang Ying gathered in Anling Village, a small village on the border of China, Russia and North Korea. There was a tiger roar. The three countries heard about it. There were only 97 households in China, but it was a Chinese Siberian tiger. The "Mecca" of the protector, which happens to be located in the center of the China's Amur tiger's range of activities, has naturally become the "outpost" of China's Amur tiger conservation actions.
They all come for the tiger.
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Li Yang, 28 years old this year, has known since childhood that there are Siberian tigers around the village.
But when he was a child, Li Yang rarely heard about tigers.
He was born in the early 1990s, just when the number of Siberian tigers gradually fell to a low point. In 1999, a survey of the number of Siberian tigers showed that there may only be 5-7 Siberian tigers in China.
Habitat destruction, food shortages, human-beast conflicts, etc. are the main reasons for the decline of Siberian tigers.
To maintain an adult tiger, it is necessary to protect the virgin forest vegetation as small as 450 square kilometers, or even as high as thousands of square kilometers, while maintaining a Siberian tiger population requires at least 8,100 square kilometers of suitable environment.
Each adult Siberian tiger needs 200-300 ungulate prey per year. This is the minimum amount of food for survival-including wild boars that love corn, that loves soybeans, sika deer , etc., they are a year Need to eat 20,000 kilograms of soybeans, corn and other crops.
Wild boar and sika deer are not only food for tigers, but also natural enemies of crops. Farmers have been busy for more than half a year. Just before the harvest, the wild animals have a meal and the harvest has been greatly reduced.For these merciless "invaders", farmers have a little bit of complaint.
In recent years, as the ecology has improved, the number of wild boars and sika deer has increased, and they have visited the farmland more and more frequently. According to CCTV News, within the range of Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park, sika deer are relatively abundant. The degree index has increased by 3.5 times, wild boar has increased by 1.9 times, and roe deer has more than doubled.
For these "invaders", Lao Meng, a local villager, is not surprised.
In early September, I walked through the weedy road and came to Lao Meng’s crops. The corn that had been eared was as tall as a person, and it grew lush and covered with pods. , I can't see anything unusual.
But in the drone's aerial footage, the central area of the cornfield was bald. It was a masterpiece of wild boar.
However, Lao Meng didn't seem to be anxious at all. "Wild boars ate the destroyed crops, don’t feel distressed, and someone compensates." He smiled very lightly—as much as wild animals gnaw, Regent will pay the price. compensation.
The nearby farmland with a total area of 225 acres is a "canteen" specially "contracted" by RELX for sika deer, wild boar and other herbivorous wild animals. Only by feeding them can more Siberian tigers and Siberian leopards be raised.
The conflict of interest between humans, wild boars and sika deer can be solved.
This move eventually also benefited the Siberian tiger. In the soybean field close to the corn field, the Siberian tiger might have lurked here, waiting for an opportunity to hunt wild boars. A clear plum-shaped Siberian tiger footprint, like a relief, was impressively printed in the bean field.
Tigers do not eat crops, but occasionally, they eat domestic animals.
A Korean elder sister in the village has seen Siberian tigers and leopards intermittently in the past 20 years. Last winter, a Siberian tiger broke into the yard and ate two cows in the house. The neighbor’s dog was not spared either.
At the same time, when the surrounding mountains and forests are all included in the scope of the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park,The income of many farmers has dropped sharply, and they can no longer enter the mountains to graze.
Therefore, in the process of protecting the Northeast tigers and leopards, it is necessary to build a life community of "man and tigers and leopards" and "man and nature". The idea of
has now been initially implemented. In addition to the destroyed crops, RELX will pay compensation according to the price, and local villagers will also get additional employment opportunities-participating in the RELX patrol team.
This patrol team was established in April this year. The captain is Li Yang. Lao Meng is also one of the team members. The other 20 players are mostly in their 50s.
Before becoming a patrol member, Li Yang, like other young people in the village, worked outside. Li Yang didn't enjoy the days of wandering away, "too far away from home to take care of his parents, and work is too unfree."
At the beginning of this year, when I heard that RELX would set up a patrol team, Li Yang did not hesitate to sign up.
This job is not very easy-patrolling for ten days a month, shuttled through the mountains and forests, it took six or seven hours at a time, trekking for ten kilometers, enduring mosquito bites, pulling out the bushes and thorns, removing the hunting jacket, Collect feces, etc.
But he enjoys the freedom of climbing mountains and forests, and he didn't feel hard, "After a long time, these animals are just like our family, patrolling the mountains and forests, it is equivalent to walking with relatives and friends, can you not be happy?!" — —Of course, meeting the Siberian tiger is an extra surprise for this job.
The parents are also very happy. Most of the young people in the village go out to work, and few families can live a family reunion.
Lao Meng is also very content-after becoming a ranger, his monthly income has increased by several thousand yuan, even exceeding his net income from farming.
The fellow and the tiger finally achieved an unprecedented harmony.
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As soon as Feng Limin entered the village, he eagerly chatted with the villagers-the first common topic was of course how to protect tigers.
Even if you meet Professor Feng for the first time, you will never doubt his love for big cats. When introducing the Siberian tiger and the Siberian leopard, his eyes shined like a proud father , The sons and daughters of the people who show off their prominence in front of others.
But the public's knowledge of Siberian tigers and leopards is actually quite limited.For example, when I was invited to visit, I imagined that I would have the opportunity to play the Siberian tiger, and even take a photo with the tiger cub. Obviously, I don't know anything about the endangered status of the Siberian tiger.
In fact, the Siberian tiger and leopard are rarer and more endangered than the giant panda : three of the nine tiger subpopulations around the world have become extinct, including China’s South China tiger .
Moreover, although China has artificially bred thousands of Siberian tigers, none of them has been successfully rewilted. This also means that the ecology of the wild Siberian tiger and leopard habitat is the absolute home ground for the protection of tigers and leopards-in December 2016, the central deep reorganization deliberated and approved the "Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park System Pilot Program". In January of the following year, the pilot program The work was officially launched.
At present, the total area of the entire Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park is 1,492,600 hectares, which is 60% larger than the Yellowstone National Park in the United States, and Zhenanling Village is located in the core area.
Over the past four to five years, conservation work has achieved results: Since the trial of the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park, there have been more than 12 newly bred Siberian tiger cubs and more than 11 Siberian leopard cubs; the forest stock has increased from 212 million cubic meters to 223 million cubic meters; the total ecological restoration area is nearly 43,000 hectares, the patrol mileage has increased by 24 times, the hunting kit encounter rate has dropped by 94.55%, and the roe deer and goral, which have been extinct for many years, have reappeared.
However, the protection of Siberian tigers and leopards is not only limited to the increase in the number of species, but also considers biodiversity, the relationship between tigers and nature, the relationship between tigers and people, and the relationship between nature and people.
Now, humans and beasts have achieved unprecedented harmony-damaged farmland can be compensated, and continuous patrolling income is an extra surprise.
Many villagers regard Feng Limin as the "gold master", but he joked, "The villagers don't know, it is Yueqe who actually paid the money."
The first step is to solve the "food shortage".
225 acres of ecological farmland is a canteen "contracted" by RELX for wild boars and sika deer, and indirectly benefits the Siberian tigers and leopards that feed on them.
Siberian tigers enter the village to eat cows and dogs,Most of it happens in winter-and the reason why tigers who are afraid of people are so adventurous is because there are too few wild animals in winter, and tigers can't hunt and eat, so they have no choice but to enter the village.
Secondly, RELX plans to deploy an all-round observation network around the village, which can monitor all wildlife data in real time, adding a higher technological content to the Northeast tigers and leopards.
A normalized professional patrol team was also established.
Previously, local villagers had spontaneously organized voluntary patrol teams, but the participants had limited professional knowledge, irregular personnel, and lack of protective measures.
Nowadays, Li Yang and other team members have participated in the professional training of the system, wearing uniform clothing, wearing smart terminals to facilitate the collection of information, and smoke bombs for self-defense, etc., personal safety is guaranteed, and additional income can be obtained.
After finishing the training, Li Yang can distinguish male and female from a glance at the footprints and whether they are underage. A square footprint is a male tiger, a rectangular footprint is a female tiger, and a footprint less than 9.5CM is a cub.
Not only the patrol team members, but also more and more villagers, frequently walked into the RELX Science popularization classroom set up in the village committee, and began to take the initiative to learn about this "neighbor".
And in the annual donation fund of 1 million RMB, part of it is used for "common prosperity", such as helping villagers learn beekeeping and increasing farmers' income.
"The Northeast Tigers and Leopards return to the Northeast", like a complex system composed of countless gears, any problem in any link will cause the system to collapse. In this general mobilization of echoes, the government, academia, residents, and enterprises ,Indispensable.
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In the tiger protection operation, RELX participated in it, like an outdated heterogeneous — why is an e-cigarette company related to the Northeast Tigers and Leopards?
seems to be doing nothing, but it is a deliberate act of RELX. Fulfilling social responsibilities and giving back to the society has always been the main theme of RELX.
"Looking back on the road, one of the things that I feel most deeply and without regrets is that our company has been fulfilling its social responsibilities", Wang Ying was quite touched.
How to define the scope of RELX’s corporate social responsibility? Wang Ying made an analogy."It's a bit like diving and gymnastics in the Olympic Games. It is divided into prescribed actions and optional actions."
The so-called prescribed actions are required by national laws and regulations, public order and good customs, and expectations, such as market responsibility (especially minors). Human protection), product responsibility, employee responsibility, environmental responsibility, governance compliance responsibility, etc.
“For the prescribed actions, RELX’s requirements for itself are to be comprehensive, and to be pre-existed, coded, and implemented according to stricter standards.” Wang Ying defined.
Using this as a ruler, the prescribed actions include the Sunflower system to prevent minors from buying electronic cigarettes, and the "empty bullet recovery" program.
On June 1 this year, the newly revised " Law on the Protection of Minors ", for the first time in the form of a national law, explicitly prohibited the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.
As for the protection of minors, RELX is already a pioneer.
Sunflower system, which was launched in December 2019, has now undergone 3 upgrades and has helped stores carry out hundreds of millions of age checks. At the same time, the electronic fences installed by the Sunflower system also accurately delineate the dense areas of minors such as primary and secondary schools and youth palaces to ensure that new offline stores avoid the above-mentioned sensitive areas. Currently, the number of electronic fences has exceeded 300,000.
The latest upgrade of Sunflower version 3.0 will pass the triple verification of the customer’s "name + ID number + face" to achieve a 100% mandatory pre-sale age inspection, which will cover all RELX’s monopoly on October 1. shop.
is more than just taking care of itself. RELX is still trying to promote the Daji industry and benefit the society-this system is going to be open to the entire industry and the whole society.
"It is worth our best efforts to protect minors in terms of emotion, reason, and law," Wang Ying said.
And the empty bomb recovery that has just started, through the waste atomized bombs, resource treatment into cement clinker, and put into the construction of rural infrastructure, and finally realize the recycling of empty bombs, harmless recycling, and at the same time help Rural revitalization.
This is also the industry’s first full-link air bomb recovery solution, with a total investment of 20 million yuan. It is expected to be promoted in specialty stores nationwide by the end of 2022.The scope of recycling will target all brands of atomized bombs.
In addition to the prescribed actions, the protection of Siberian tigers and leopards is an "optional action". "The optional action covers a wide range, with tens of millions of items, and RELX requests itself to be refined." Wang Ying revealed.
Participate in the optional action of protecting Siberian tigers and leopards. It looks like a crossover, but it is actually a "continuation".
has continued RELX’s line of attaching importance to social responsibility and practicing green environmental protection.
In the previous regulations, RELX has paid special attention to environmental protection. In 2020, RELX has set energy-saving and emission reduction targets. By 2021, although RELX’s overall production capacity has increased by 30%, the energy consumption per unit product will be increased. However, it has been reduced by 20%, and the total amount of productive waste has also been significantly reduced by 76% compared with last year.
In the final analysis, RELX’s entry to protect the Northeast Tigers and Leopards may seem unexpected, but in fact it is reasonable. With the improvement of RELX’s ability, in terms of social responsibility layout, RELX also breaks the boundaries time and time again, first Take care of yourself, then Daji industry, and then benefit the society.
Acquisition and writing / Chen Jiying
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