The mountains no Tiger Takin disaster

The mountains no Tiger Takin disaster

Http://www.thebeijingnews.com source: Beijing News release date: 2008-03-09

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Due to the lack of natural enemies, Qinling Takin proliferate, even a local first "black beast".

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According to media reports, in recent years, Takin became the Qinling first "black beast".

Shaanxi Provincial Forestry Department of statistics, "in 1999 to the present, Takin wounding event has occurred, causing 155 22 deaths, 184 people were injured. ”

Protected "harm animals"

Takin my I-level protection for animals.

Although called cattle, in fact, this is a golden Takin more sheep. It belongs to Artiodactyla bovine, sheep, Antelope subfamily of consanguinity. The animals are very large, adult male Takin body length up to 2 meters and weighing up to 400 kg. In the past, because the forest was destroyed, and the capture of mankind, Takin Herber. At least, in the vicinity of the main distribution area, only the Qinling Mountains less than 1000 head and walked to the edge of extinction.

With the Wildlife Conservation Act, particularly in 1989 the wildlife protection act after implementation, the situation got a golden Takin a big improvement.

Reproductive capacity and Takin is not strong. However, those who eat large Takin predator almost non-existent. This makes the population rebounded Takin very quickly. Hunger often patronize Takin so, human village cattle confrontation occurred from time to time.

Sheep are Takin kin.

However their size is much smaller than the Takin. Sheep have been widely distributed in the mountains of Western China, due to overgrazing and to hunt, the rapid decline in the number of them, and later was classified as a national level to protect animals II. Now, the number of sheep also rapidly rebound. In Gansu province in the East mountains nature reserve, the number of sheep swarms reached only 50 per sq km. The sudden increase of sheep for East Mountain vegetation is the rebuilding of many new planting of shrubs and Komatsu Cypress is sheep chewing. Some time ago also warned of Gansu province, if no reasonable control, Gansu will also face sheep disaster situation.

Carnivores of the missing

In recent years, the wildlife conservation gains the greatest animal is the wild boar and hares.

Compare Takin and sheep, their reproductive capacity. More importantly, the wild boar and the Hare with human activities, particularly farmers life ranges overlap, the agricultural production has brought about tremendous damage. Even the Beijing peripheral regions plagued by pigs. "Pigs disaster" and "victim" of rabbits, but also because of their natural enemies because human activities and almost extinct.

Nature has a tight food chain: from capturing solar energy plants, plants are herbivores are herbivores, carnivores, small carnivores are large carnivores consumption, various plants and animals died after being fungi bacteria into basic elements back to the plants there.

This system has been running for billions of Enron, wait there, but of mankind. Humans rely on smart became the entire natural world's top consumer, any of the food chain rings have become human beings. When people realized the infinite expansion of stomach trouble, began to reflect on their own as an attempt to restore the original appearance of the part of the natural world.

However, the survival skills herbivores relatively simple.

They only need keen senses and running ability, is usually sufficient. It is precisely because of this, so their stocks recover more obvious. By contrast, the carnivorous animals hunt skills becomes very complex. They usually want to use groups to successfully Hunt, or take a long time to learn to lurk, raids and other tactics. Therefore carnivores wild populations of recovery is difficult. It is precisely because of this, though many national conservation workers are attempted to be captive Carnivore, wild training and eventually returned, but the actual effect is very poor. This ultimately resulted in many parts of the world disaster situation herbivores.

In the long run, try to restore the natural ecological environment is stable, let to restore large predators is a fundamental way; but now, with the purpose of restoring conditions of hunting is perhaps one of the possible ways.

In Western countries, legal hunting is the scientific control of wildlife is an important part of the number. However, in China, at least so far it seems unrealistic ...

□ Lean camel (Shandong biology researchers)