i have a zoo

Chapter 144 New Enrichment

However, in recent years, because the price of tea has risen sharply again, trees have been cut down to plant tea.

The government started to manage it after 13 years, and trees cannot be cut down casually.However, the common people also have clever tricks, such as cutting off a circle of bark, or using toxic chemicals, and waiting for the original forest trees to "naturally" die, they can grow cash crops.

There is money to grow cash crops, but there is no money to protect the environment.

In a few years ago, the per capita income of farmers in the reserve was only more than 1000 yuan, while the national per capita disposable income was more than 6000 yuan in those days, and the difference was more than six times.

Planting crops will be destroyed by elephants, planting rubber elephants don't like to eat, and make money.

In the words of the local people, people who use iPhones in the city have no right to accuse themselves of watching TV.

In the eyes of elephants, whether it is wild plantains or crops grown by humans, they are all born and grown. There is no one who belongs to them, only the difference between whether they can eat them or not.

The crops that human beings have worked hard to plant are only edible things in their eyes.

When there is less and less vegetation suitable for survival in the habitat, elephants will naturally choose to go to villages and eat crops more, while people want to defend their property, and conflicts naturally arise.

After Zhao Jia read the reason behind the conflict, he wanted to say something but couldn't say it, and finally sighed depressingly!

The issue of human-elephant conflict is still complex.

To accuse the people there of destroying the environment, they have suffered from elephants, is it wrong to pursue a better life?Is it wrong to want to watch TV?

Is it wrong for elephants to eat crops?The economic crops that are all planted do not have to eat crops.

Is there any solution?

The main point of conflict in the human-elephant conflict lies in the fields where crops are grown.

The villagers worked hard to farm the fields, but when the harvest came, all the fruits were eaten by the elephants.

At dusk, the herd of elephants walked out of the forest and swaggered into the cornfields. Their noses nimbly peeled off the corn husks, and the corn rolled directly into their stomachs.

The elephant's nose is not only flexible, but also very sensitive. It can quickly judge whether the corn is ripe or not, and it doesn't bother to eat unripe corn.

The forest ranger felt sorry for the crops ruined by the elephant. Seeing the elephant walking away, he hurriedly found a basket and picked up the crushed corn on the ground.

After picking it up for a while, I found the elephant turned to look at him from afar.

That night, the elephant turned back and ate up all the corn in the cornfield.

Elephants are very smart. They know that humans will harvest corn and want to eat it all before humans harvest it.

Since 05, in order to allow the common people to rush to harvest crops, the XSBN Reserve has specially selected a gentle slope next to the forest to grow food for elephants.

At the same time, an artificial saline-alkali pool was built next to it, and the salt was buried in the ground, so that elephants and other animals could absorb salt and minerals here.

However, the elephants eat the crops very quickly, and leave in one afternoon.

Planting crops in this way for elephants has deepened the change in feeding habits of elephants, becoming more and more dependent on these high-starch and high-calorie foods.

It is also a last resort.

For elephants to eat crops, relevant organizations have thought of many ways.

Villagers whose income depends on farming and who were severely affected by the disaster were employed as elephant monitors.

Although some compensation can be received for crops damaged by wild elephants, there is still a gap with normal income.

Elephant monitors track wild elephants 24 hours a day, broadcast the whereabouts of elephants to surrounding villagers in real time through Moments and WeChat, and warn villagers to avoid conflicts.

There is also a sound and light warning system. When the infrared cameras around the village take pictures of wild elephants, the photos will be sent to the administrator's mailbox. After the administrator confirms that it is a wild elephant, he will use a loudspeaker, flashing lights, and scrolling make a notification.

Even if the villagers did not check their mobile phones or read the text messages in time, they could still be notified through the sound and light early warning system in various places in the field to avoid casualties.

But the most important thing is to restore the original forest habitat of elephants, so that they can obtain the resources they need to survive in the forest, so as to solve the problem from the root.

Now some organizations are restoring the habitat of Asian elephants in the protected area, and planting native plants such as bamboo, reeds, and wild plantains that elephants like.

However, compared with artificial planting and natural renewal succession, there is a big gap.Before the Zongyelu grew up, the elephant wiped it all away with one trunk.After a busy week of planting the plantain seedlings, the elephant came and uprooted them all in less than an hour.

It is easy to destroy, but much more difficult to repair.

The habitat of Asian elephants must be protected, and the livelihood of the common people must be resolved.

There are public welfare projects to help villagers carry out industrial transformation, such as developing beekeeping, improving villagers' beehives, and training villagers in beekeeping techniques.

In this way, the villagers have a stable source of income, and the bees can also help pollinate and maintain the health of the forest ecosystem.

Restoring the forest is also restoring the human heart and the relationship between humans and elephants.

The problem of food is solved, the relationship between elephants and humans is harmonious, and the tourism industry of viewing phenomena can also be developed.

There are other measures. For example, elephants were not considered when building roads. Elephants walked on the roads, hindering traffic, and need to build migration passages for them, etc.
Although there are many difficulties, there are still solutions.

We can sacrifice the environment as a price in exchange for some economic benefits, and talk about protection after the economy develops.

It is true to pursue a better life, but there must be a limit to sacrificing the environment.For example, planting rubber in high-altitude areas destroys the ecological environment and wastes financial resources.

The ancients all knew, "If you exhaust the lake and fish, you will not get anything, but next year there will be no fish."

With TV, do we need a car?With a small car, do we need a big house?With a big house, the lights are feasting every day, and you can enjoy the prosperity and comfort.

Human desires are endless.

Some studies have investigated the climate impact of large-scale rubber planting. Forests have a certain effect on precipitation, but it is not obvious. The main reason is to intercept moisture in the atmosphere and increase the humidity of the air, which can be replenished to the soil.

The interception of rubber forest canopy is much lower than that of monsoon forest. With the increase of rubber area, the air humidity of XSBN has decreased significantly, the degree of atmospheric dryness has increased, and the temperature has increased.In layman's terms, it is more prone to drought and wildfires.

If trees are cut down unrestrainedly and cash crops are planted, the environment will deteriorate in the end. Not only elephants and other animals will be unlucky, but local residents will also be unable to live.How to farm in drought.

Will return eventually.

Seeing this, Zhao Jia went out. Seeing these heavy things, he wanted to see elephants.

Walking into the elephant house, I stopped at a place and found a huge column on the site.

It can be two meters in length and about one meter in diameter!
Half of it was buried in the sand, leaving a semicircular section on the ground with some small circular holes.

Zhao Jia looked a little curious: "What does this thing do?"

At this time, Doudou walked to the pillar, put his nose into the round hole on the pillar, and seemed to be exploring something inside.

Zhao Jia saw a display board next to it, and there was an introduction to the Fengrong cement pillar.

Elephants are very intelligent animals, they don't like to eat food piled on the ground, it's boring.

Likes to feed in a complex way, likes a challenging way.

Elephants are raised in zoos, and the open space is only one of the conditions. If there are not enough things to attract their interest, the elephants will just stand there bored and will not move back and forth in the playground.

Elephants can't see what's going on inside this kind of enrichment concrete column, they can only use their nose to locate the food, and then use their nose to reach in through the circular hole above to rummage through the mud and sand for food.

The elephant's trunk is not only strong enough to uproot a tree, but also nimble enough to pick up a leaf. It is also full of olfactory and tactile receptors, and its sense of smell is extremely sensitive.

According to zoologists' research, elephants' sense of smell is twice as sensitive as that of hunting dogs, and they can sense the smell of water from 19 kilometers away.

Therefore, this kind of enriched cement column not only exercises the sense of smell, but also exercises the ability of the nose to bend and grasp flexibly.

It doesn't stop there!

When the elephant crosses the concrete column, it also bends its knees and legs, exercising the flexibility of its joints.

It can be said to serve multiple purposes.

(End of this chapter)