Chapter 424 (1/2)

”It is almost impossible to promote the government to establish laws on insecticides and herbicides, or to establish a reserve for monarch butterflies in the wilderness. However, researchers have made some models and found that increasing the food of monarch butterflies in cities can protect monarch butterflies.

The food of emperor butterflies is milkweed, which is a kind of plant rich in juice. People wonder if we can send a package of milkweed seeds to the residents of this area with much less money, and ask the residents to sprinkle the seeds in the small garden of the city and in their backyard or field. The network composed of these milkweed can reverse the fate of emperor butterflies.

There were failures and many dramatic successes in this process. People found that this idea was actually established. When the seeds of milkweed were sent to the residents, one milkweed garden after another appeared in the city.

Because of the existence of these flowers, some worthless wilderness has become a more beautiful urban landscape, attracted more wild animals, improved the quality of residential areas, and even attracted commercial investment.

Therefore, the city may not be a place with poor biodiversity. Perhaps in the future, the city can be used as a habitat for the protection of key species. Although the scale of urban green space is small, there are many biological scales that are very small. ”

Fang Ye wrote down the story in his heart: ”I think this is a good example. Thank you, teacher.”

Wang Yan added: ”the number of monarch butterflies has dropped a lot in the past two years, repeatedly hitting new lows. The situation this year seems to be particularly bad, which should also have something to do with the mountain fires in the United States.”

Fang Ye is helpless. In recent years, with global warming and frequent extreme weather, the impact on butterflies is very fatal. Coupled with the use of pesticides and herbicides, planting some milkweed in cities may be a drop in the bucket.

How many effects are there? However, this attempt is of great positive significance. It can let tourists know a way to get along with animals and that symbiosis is a friendly and mutually beneficial thing.

In the future, when we build an urban animal exhibition area, we can raise some emperors and butterflies and make a garden landscape.

The zoo is not only to show the star animals such as tigers and giant pandas, but also to guide tourists to pay attention to the humble animals such as insects. Their role is also very important, and it is even harder to make statistics and study their population survival status.

And Wang Yan talked about other things.

Wang Yan is not only a researcher, but also a teacher of the school.

A rough feeling of scientists engaged in conservation biology is to see the changes in the world and possible threats and dangers before others.

One of the preparations for this semester is to investigate the distribution and habits of raccoon dogs in Linhai City.

When I saw the raccoon last night, I was not only shocked by its courage and exploration spirit, but also vaguely premonited a conflict behind it in the future.

Maybe in ten or eight years, raccoons will fully adapt to the city, and their habits will change accordingly. They may become the same as raccoons in North America.

At that time, there may be some human animal conflicts, such as parasites and germs brought by raccoon dogs, so some research in advance can also prepare for the future.

Fang Ye mentioned that before, because of the milk tea wild boar incident, some infrared cameras were placed around the village near Linhai City. The data collected by these infrared cameras can be handed over to Wang Yan for analysis and research.

It is not only scientific research cooperation, but also money sponsorship for Wang Yan's team.

Although he only talked for a long time, he felt that Wang Yan was worthy of being a researcher of Xinghe University, and the scientific research work was still handed over to professional people.

Wang yanle!

Don't you worry about money when doing scientific research? I didn't expect Fang ye to be so forthright. He began to talk about money soon after meeting.

Before coming here, I heard from my matchmaking friends that Fang Ye is a very rich second generation. He has set up a private zoo, and he is very good. Usually, he is very modest to ask them about things. He is not a kind of ignorant dandy.

See you today, that's true.

The impression of the other side was also good. They had a good talk.