Chapter 847: Protection Center's Underground Warehouse
The road is narrow but straight, and you can see from afar a not-so-big protection center with concrete walls.
The Kenya Wildlife Conservation Center is not located in the center of the savannah, but on the outskirts of the city, on the edge of the wilderness.
What you can see is that the concrete house is surrounded by barbed wire, which encloses a large area. The top of the barbed wire is wrapped with caltrops. You can also see armed police officers surrounding the barbed wire, which shows how serious the situation is.
When they got here, Bifang took out the drone, opened the car window, and flew it out.
Chu Zhaohua sat up straighter upon seeing this.
"Don't be nervous." Bifang smiled and then started the live broadcast. This kind of behavior was very familiar to him.
Soon, everyone who had booked the live broadcast was notified.
An Internet storm was quickly ignited, with signals from countless people pouring into the servers that had been prepared long ago.
The air conditioner was turned to the lowest temperature, and the fan hummed in the coolant, stirring up a stream of water.
The staff who were on high alert breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the audience successfully entering the live broadcast room.
The number of people in the live broadcast room increased dramatically and soon exceeded three million.
Although this live broadcast seemed a bit hasty, starting less than five days after it was announced, this did not affect the enthusiasm and excitement of Bifang fans at all.
Cheetahs, migrating geese, the African savannah, all kinds of elements, and finally a Bifang.
How can we not look forward to it?
【Go, go, go, go, go! 】
【sofa】
【Front row reservation】
[Tell me quickly, what is the content of this live broadcast? 】
[Fuck, have we reached the grassland yet? ]
[Fuck, is that a real gun? ]
[Muyuren presents the anchor with a spaceship*1.0——It finally begins! 】
【WTF new rich guy! 】
[Damn, damn, there are already ten spaceships right after the show started, who else is there! ! ! ! ]
After a short carnival, the audience saw the wilderness around them and the soldiers in front of the barbed wire. They were a little shocked and hurriedly asked where this place was.
"We are now at the edge of the grassland. We are heading to the Kenya Wildlife Conservation Center. Once we get there, you will know what we are going to do this time."
It's so pitiful that Bifang is still keeping the secret at this point, and countless fans are going crazy.
【Why are you still keeping it a secret?】
[I can’t take it anymore, this is too much torture]
[It’s poisonous, it’s poisonous! ]
[Teacher Fang, please give me some. I feel like ants are crawling all over my body.]
Unfortunately, Bifang remained unmoved.
As long as he doesn't pay attention to the barrage, the fans' madness will not affect him.
As the audience was eager to know the truth, Chu Zhaohua ordered the driver to stop at the door, went to the door to verify his identity, and entered the protection center.
Taking this opportunity, Bifang also observed the surrounding environment. There were some animals living in each wire fence. It looked like entering a simple zoo.
"What happened to the lion?"
Bifang looked through the wire fence and saw an African lion patrolling the ground.
It was an extremely thin lion, almost skin and bones, with a horrible scar on its abdomen.
[Hiss, this wound hurts just looking at it]
[Is this a rescued lion? ]
[Very thin]
"It's recovering." Chu Zhaohua took a look and said, "The staff of the reserve found it a month ago. It was lying on the grass, dying. There was a nearly 40-centimeter gash in its abdomen, and even part of its intestines were exposed."
Bifang looked at the wound and asked: "Did it hunt the buffalo?"
"That's right." Chu Zhaohua was not surprised at all that Bifang could guess it, after all, the person next to him was GOD FANG. "The staff also inferred from the wounds and traces that he was injured by a bison, so they anesthetized him and brought him back for treatment. However, because his intestines were injured at the time, he could only eat liquid food for a long time and was extremely skinny. Fortunately, he has almost recovered now and should be able to gain weight soon."
Bifang nodded.
It is common for animals to be injured and nearly die by bison and then be rescued by reserve staff.
It sounds like there is nothing wrong with it, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that this is not an alternative form of intervention in nature?
After all, this lion was not injured by humans. If its mother was killed by humans like the cheetah, it would be reasonable to bring it back and raise it, but the lion was injured by a bison.
When lions prey on buffaloes, humans do not interfere with nature and just watch the buffaloes being eaten. But if the buffaloes kill the lions in return, why should humans intervene?
Just like when Bifang faced a pack of wolves hunting the little camel, he also chose not to take action.
As expected, with such a huge number of fans, and as Bifang expected, some fans raised such questions.
But Bifang was not at all panicked by this kind of doubt, because a long time ago, he also had considerable doubts about this issue.
Isn’t this double standards?
It was not until he studied with the old professor that Bi Fang finally understood the difference.
"This is actually a compensatory rescue behavior."
"All our interventions and non-interventions are just a statement. In essence, they all have only one purpose - balance!"
【balance?】
【Ah, this.】
“What is interfering with nature?”
"In a narrow sense, human interference with nature is already too severe and cannot be reversed, and this interference continues all the time."
"Building dams changes rivers, which can be devastating for some fish species."
"Even if you just build a concrete road, it will have a huge impact on the earthworms underneath the road."
“So unless humans don’t exist, humans are interfering with nature all the time, and this process cannot be changed.”
"The most common method humans use to protect endangered animals is to formulate relevant laws to protect endangered animals and to establish nature reserves so that endangered animals have a place to reproduce and thrive without being threatened."
“However, the legal protection of endangered animals and the establishment of nature reserves for their protection are aimed at humans.”
"That is to say, the law only binds people, not animals."
For example, Tibetan antelopes have natural enemies in the wild, such as wolves. It is not illegal for wolves to hunt Tibetan antelopes, and humans will not interfere with this.
Therefore, such behavior of protecting endangered animals does not mean interfering with nature. It only eliminates human influence on endangered animals, while they themselves are still part of nature.
There are many similar examples, like many zoologists who study wild animals and watch the objects they have been studying being hunted by natural enemies without being able to intervene because this is part of nature.
What Bifang said was easily understood by the audience.
“What humans need to do is to let nature return to its own nature.”
“Whether it’s the survival of the fittest or the survival of the fittest, everything must return to its original nature, allowing organisms to unleash their most essential life potential.”
"But ideals are beautiful, but reality is always cruel. The emergence of humans is too strong for the fragile process of nature. Moreover, even if the law is enacted, there is still a loophole in the entire system - those greedy poachers. With poachers killing on a large scale, it becomes impossible to let nature return to nature itself. Therefore, in contrast to poachers, wildlife protection centers appeared, which is a compensatory intervention."
At certain times, wild animals are in an extremely endangered state and may be in danger of extinction in the wild at any time. At this time, humans may intervene to maintain the continuation of the species.
For example, the South China tiger has become functionally extinct in the wild due to hunting by humans. Today's South China tigers are the offspring of those tigers that were captured and artificially bred.
Due to the construction of the dam, the wild spawning grounds of the Chinese sturgeon have been destroyed. In order to protect this species, humans conduct artificial releases every year.
"Such human intervention is actually interfering with the laws of nature. However, most of these species that have been interfered with are extinct because of human beings. In fact, it is better to say that humans are making up for their own mistakes rather than interfering with nature. This is the so-called compensatory intervention, which is the real animal protection."
Apart from this, protecting kittens and puppies is not essentially the original intention of animal protection, but the result of excessive human love.
The two are completely different things.
[But African buffalo are also targeted by poachers, so why only rescue lions? ]
"That's a good question. The reason is simple, because more lions are killed than buffaloes."
Bifang snapped his fingers, "Remember what I said? Balance."
"Everything humans do now is about balance. We want to keep predators and prey in a balance without human intervention."
"If a species is to become extinct, disappear forever, it should be a normal extinction in nature, not being killed off by humans."
"When poachers kill many lions and a small number of buffalo, humans need to save the lions to avoid this imbalance of human intervention."
"And this kind of rescue is not a rampant behavior. If the lion is killed on the spot during hunting, then this kind of rescue will not appear. But if it is injured but not dead, this kind of rescue becomes important."
"That's compensatory relief, to compensate animals that have been killed more and that upset the balance."
"Unfortunately, even though humans have racked their brains to let nature return to nature, a very fatal problem has always existed, that is, in this constant patching process, the entire natural system is constantly declining."
The audience was excited to hear this.
Yes, the overall population of all animals has indeed balanced, but it is declining in a stable balance.
There is still a long way to go to let nature truly return to nature.
[I think I understand it a little bit]
[On the surface, they are saving lions injured by buffaloes, but in reality, they are saving lions shot dead by hunters. Is that what you mean? ]
[Good guy, the summary is good]
[Awesome, easy to understand, Fang Shen's explanation is just for fun, if you really want to understand it, you have to read the netizens]
Retracting his scattered thoughts, Bifang entered the park under the leadership of Chu Zhaohua.
The man dressed as a soldier came out to greet Bifang. Bifang glanced at his shoulder and was surprised to find that the man was a general.
"This is Mr. Julius Kimani, Acting Director of the Kenya National Wildlife Service."
Chu Zhaohua introduced on the side.
Bifang nodded and walked forward to shake hands with the man.
The Kenya National Wildlife Service is a large unit with thousands of armed personnel, equivalent to part of the Kenya Armed Police, responsible for patrolling and guarding all national parks and game reserves.
Armed anti-poaching is one of their most important tasks.
Julius smiled widely and uttered a fairly standard sentence in Chinese: "Mr. Bifang is here!"
"You're so polite." Bifang responded in English.
The official language of Kenya should actually be Swahili. Although English is also an official language, it is inferior to Swahili.
Swahili belongs to the Bantu language branch and is one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa. It is one of the three major languages in Africa along with Arabic and Hausa.
Unfortunately, Bifang didn't get any language vouchers in the past two days, so he failed to master this language skill and can only say a few common greetings at most.
Fortunately, we can communicate in English, so there is no big problem.
Chu Zhaohua then introduced the second heavyweight figure, Stephen Maneghini, director of the protection center, and several other senior figures.
Despite meeting so many famous people, Bifang was not too excited.
Such a situation was both troublesome and difficult to deal with. In fact, he would rather meet Harley right away and pet this big cat.
A visit to the entire conservation center is inevitable, and Bifang himself is actually somewhat curious, so it would be nice to see some of it.
Chu Zhaohua also said goodbye at this time. He was not a member of the protection center, but he had a good relationship with them and they often cooperated.
The main task this time was to bring Bifang here. Now that the task is completed, Chu Zhaohua has to go back to do his own thing.
Everyone present expressed their gratitude to Chu Zhaohua and watched him leave.
General Kemari was very happy about Bifang's arrival, because China and Kenya have always had a good relationship. Not only are they foreign trade partners, but China has also made efforts to protect wildlife.
Just last week, the Chinese government donated 18 vehicles and some other equipment to the protection center.
At his invitation, he even took Bifang to visit the underground warehouse of the Protection Bureau.
When a female police officer struggled to open the iron gate, a special smell wafted into the air.
Bifang couldn't help but cover his nose. The smell was hard to describe, but when the light illuminated the underground warehouse, everyone's eyes widened.
[What the hell is this? ]
[Ivory?]
[Isn’t this too much? ]
The audience in front of the live broadcast room fell into a daze.
Both small rooms were filled with ivory. Almost all of the ivory here was taken alive by poachers after they killed the elephants and chopped off the elephants' skulls with knives!
The ends of many tusks were stained with blood.
"Each tusk has a label and number on it, indicating when it was put into the warehouse, its weight, and the region where the ivory was seized."
"Kenya currently has 132 tons of ivory in its national stockpile, 1.5 tons of rhino horns , and 84 tons of ivory in the two rooms we visited."
Kenya Wildlife Service Assistant Director Rubia explained: "This means that 12,000 elephants have been killed. These are only the ivory we have seized. There are more ivory that has been smuggled out."
Hearing this, the audience was instantly filled with indignation.
[Poachers really deserve to die! ]
