Chapter 569 (1/2)

Lin Hao was shocked when he looked at the exhibition.

He had never heard of so many people being trampled to death by elephants.

It was thought that predators such as tigers and bears might be more dangerous, but the accidents seem to be in the circus and zoo. Now I haven't heard that anyone was bitten to death by a tiger in the wild. Instead, it is the gentle giant in the impression of elephant, who has such a ferocious side.

Put yourself in his shoes. If a wall near his house can't stop it and a giant that can trample people flat with one foot, he often comes to the field to see if there is anything to eat. He must be worried when he sleeps at night.

Why is the conflict between elephants and people so fierce that it can even be described as tragic? Is it because there are too many elephants and there is not enough food to eat human crops? Is there any solution?

With this question, continue to look down!

At that meeting in 1999, Professor Zhang, an authority on elephant research in China, just started to do a domestic elephant survey to study their number, distribution and habits.

The number of elephants is hard to count!

They don't have the concept of border. They may eat at home in the morning and go to Laos in the afternoon. Researchers can't cross the border casually. They can only use stupid methods to ask the situation in the village and make statistics one village by one.

Ask if there are 5 elephants in this village. Go to a village a kilometer or two away and ask if there are 10 elephants. The number of elephants can not be simply superimposed. It is still unclear how many there are. Later, according to the outline of elephant ears, the shape of ivory and the identification of individuals one by one, each elephant was given a name to distinguish the families of different elephants.

I visited all the places where elephants were distributed in history. In this way, after 20 years of efforts, I gradually counted the number of elephant groups.

The number of wild Asian elephants found in China is less than 250!

In domestic zoos, there are 300 Asian elephants in captivity.

Lin Hao stared: ”surprised!”

The number of African elephants is recorded in hundreds of thousands. I thought there were thousands of elephants in China instead of tens of thousands?

I really don't understand. There are only 200 elephants. Yunnan is also the place with the best environment and the thickest forests in China. What's not enough for a large forest? Why do you have so many conflicts with people?

In recent years, the number of casualties and economic losses caused by elephants have increased every year.

The reason for the conflict is that the habitat is compressed.

Although the trees look lush and lush from the sky, and even the forest coverage is increasing, in fact, many are rubber forests.

As an important industrial raw material, rubber was introduced into China in the 1960s and planted from scratch. Referring to the statistical bulletin of national economic and social development of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and Yunnan statistical yearbook, the official statistical areas of rubber forests in Xishuangbanna in 1990, 2000, 2000, 2010 and 2014 were 85000 hectares, 13200 hectares, 2713 hectares and 337200 hectares respectively, The remote sensing monitoring area in 14 years is larger than the statistics, up to 37.66 hectares.

The area of Xishuangbanna is only 191 hectares, and one quarter of the area is planted with rubber forests.

Although the rubber forest is also a tree, elephants don't like to eat, and other animals don't like to eat. There may be hundreds of plants in the same tropical rain forest. The rubber forest is just a plant, so it is also called green desert. Just looking green, there is no species diversity.

The area is gradually increasing, not only rubber forest, but also cash crops such as tea and bananas, as well as farming.

Pu'er City was actually called Simao. Later, it was renamed Pu'er because the Pu'er tea produced was too famous.

After 2000, the price of rubber soared, and people basically planted rubber where they could.

Plant rubber trees, and even break through the areas suitable for rubber growth. Rubber is suitable to grow at an altitude of 900 meters. At that time, it was planted at an altitude of 1500 meters.