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Chapter 625 Trying to protect, the story of the last northern white rhino

Lin Yang didn't make a fool of himself, he said bluntly: "Before this, in the cultural relics unearthed in our Dragon Kingdom, it was clearly recorded that burning forests and hunting, as the name suggests, is to burn their habitats for hunting wild rhinos, and in the ancient oracle bone inscriptions , and even recorded that the harvest of this hunt was 71 rhinos."

As soon as Lin Yang finished speaking, the barrage messages in the live broadcast room seemed to disappear instantly, and even Yue'er beside her was silent for several seconds.

At least among the information recorded in ancient unearthed cultural relics, there is still a lot of information that can be obtained.

First of all, in Longguo more than 3000 years ago, the survival of rhinos in the wild was very impressive, and secondly, hunting rhinos began at least 3000 years ago.

Lin Yang went on to say: "Of course, the extinction of the wild rhinoceros in Longguo was due to both man-made and natural factors. Around 500 BC, the climate north of the Yellow River became colder, and the rhinoceroses in the Central Plains gradually disappeared. The army's huge demand for rhino horn and rhino hides has made the remaining rhinos gradually disappear."

Yueer then asked rhetorically: "That is to say, in the recorded history of modern biology, we have no wild rhinos?"

However, what everyone didn't expect was that Lin Yang shook his head again, and he continued: "The Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has conducted a survey, and it has been recorded that the last three rhinos in Longguo should be at 48, 50, and 57 respectively. years have been poached and killed."

Undoubtedly, in the spring auction 23 years ago, two pieces of rhino horn products were sold at a high price of 3 million yuan. Pick up a long gun and join the hunt for rhinos.

In short, the gray industry of hunting rhinos for their horns has been slamming the living space of these rare animals.

While talking, Lin Yang walked towards the pair of white rhino mother and child. What the sand sculpture netizens didn't expect was that neither the great white rhino nor the baby white rhino seemed to have the intention of escaping or defending themselves, and Lin Yang patted their rhino horns lightly. .

Under the background story about the rhino that Lin Yang told before, this picture is full of visual impact.

Lin Yang continued: "Compared to the northern white rhino, these southern white rhinos are considered lucky. At least they have received enough attention and protection now."

Yue'er took the conversation and said, "Brother Yang, can you tell us the story about the unfortunate extinct northern white rhino?"

Lin Yang nodded and smiled, "Of course, but we have to say goodbye to the white rhino mother and son first."

Although it's still early in the morning, Lin Yang doesn't want to stay here for too long. After all, according to the previous itinerary plan, the two of them will have to return to Jinwan Port later today. ocean voyage.

On the other hand, although the white rhinoceros mother and child have a gentle temperament, and the bug of Lin Yang's system ability affinity bonus allows them to interact more, Lin Yang doesn't want to disturb them for too long.

According to the habits of white rhinos, except for the early morning period, most of them will hide during the daytime, firstly to avoid the scorching sun, and secondly to avoid conflicts with more aggressive animals.

Yue'er naturally understood that Lin Yang wanted to save some time in Hanas Wildlife Sanctuary next.

Besides, in essence, staring straight at the great white rhino and the baby white rhino is really nothing to see. In order to protect them as much as possible, Lin Yang didn't do anything else except touch their rhino horns. Making any contact and continuing to shoot is nothing more than staring.

Therefore, while the two were talking, the camera in Lin Yang's live broadcast room gradually became farther and farther away from the white rhinoceros mother and child.

Yue'er smiled and said, "Goodbye white rhino mother and baby white rhino! I hope you can grow up safely in the Hanas Reserve."

The girl then added: "Perhaps when Xiao Yang and I return to Hanas, this baby white rhino will grow as tall as his mother."

In the live broadcast room, sand sculpture netizens also bid farewell to the mother and child of the white rhinoceros. After all, I am afraid that the subspecies of rhinoceros such as the white rhinoceros will never be seen in any corner of the world.

"Maybe the anchor will come back one day, but his voyage is not over right now."

"The baby white rhino is so cute, and the smaller horn on his forehead doesn't seem to have grown yet."

"Silly and chubby like baby hippopotamuses, it would be great if you could raise one qaq."

"Brother in front, get rid of your dangerous thoughts and raise this thing. Is there such a big swamp in your house for him to roll around? Manual dog head 23, 333."

"By the way, the anchor is going to continue heading northeast of Hanas, don't forget to tell us the story about the northern white rhino on the way!"

Even many viewers know in their hearts that a story about the extinction of a species must not be so cheerful, and it must be sad.

Even so, there are still many people who want to know. After all, for creatures like white rhinos, it has left traces on the earth, and human factors account for a large proportion of their demise.

Perhaps during Lin Yang's previous sea voyages, especially when he discovered the dodo, many people understood the destructive power of human beings to the extinction of species, and at the same time paid more attention to the issue of how to coexist harmoniously between man and nature.

Perhaps in some people's minds, animal protection and environmental protection are as meddling as the Virgin Mary, but in essence, who doesn't want any kind of creatures living on the earth to continue the extinction that they shouldn't have? What a tragic fate.

Lin Yang and Yue'er got on the tractor one after another.

Humhhhhhh! ! !
Heading towards the northeast of Hanas Wildlife Sanctuary, facing Yueer and the audience in the live broadcast room, they learned about the extinction of the northern white rhinoceros.

Lin Yang first mentioned the southern white rhino that had left the country before, and he said in a deep voice: "Actually, the number of southern white rhinos has rebounded obviously. Although it is still on the red list of endangered species, compared with the extinct northern white rhino White rhinos, they are much luckier."

In fact, in the 60s, there were still more than 2000 extinct northern white rhinos alive, and the situation was relatively not that dangerous.

However, in nature, when the wild population of a species is reduced to a certain value, it is difficult for the remaining few individuals to breed a large population.

Lin Yang went on to say: "Compared to the northern white rhino that was hunted before, the protection treatment enjoyed by the last male northern white rhino in the world is simply embarrassing."

How eye-catching is the protective treatment of the last male in the world?

Under the eyes of Yue Er's puzzled eyes, Lin Yang cleared his throat and said, "In order to protect the last male northern white rhino and prevent thieves from coveting it, 40 guards with guns and 18 breeders took turns to guard it day and night. However, this almost exaggerated way of protection can only leave human beings with a sigh..."

Undoubtedly, after listening to what Lin Yang said, some of the water friends in the live broadcast room were dumbfounded.

What the hell?
40 guards with guns and 18 breeders take turns to take care of them day and night.

It can be seen that the last northern white rhinoceros received a lot of attention.

Although from the current status quo, people have already learned the ending of the story about the northern white rhinoceros, even so, everyone is still very interested in the process.

For this reason, the barrage messages in the live broadcast room increased a lot in an instant.

"Is the protection with guns and live ammunition just to avoid the ambitious coveting of poachers?"

"Why do human beings always wait until they are already endangered beyond recovery before they realize the seriousness of the problem."

"Although it sounds like there are a lot of workers protecting the last male northern white rhino, it's not useless in the end."

"Speaking of when the anchor will return to Jinwan Port, I miss the yacht a little bit."

Lin Yang's words made it rare for Yue'er to think differently from the water friends.

She shook her head thoughtfully, and then said, "At least the extinction of the northern white rhino made me understand a truth."

As soon as the girl finished speaking, Lin Yang interviewed with great interest: "How did you realize the truth? What is the truth? Tell the big guys to hear it."

Compared with her usual carefree state, Yue'er was quite serious at the moment. She looked back and was within her field of vision.

The great white rhinoceros that appeared before, as well as his baby, are no longer visible.

Yueer said bluntly: "Mankind has proved through actions that if people want to extinct a species, it only takes a few hundred years, but if they want to make an endangered species flourish, it seems much more difficult. many."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Yang nodded in agreement.

As she said, in the past hundreds of years, human factors have directly or indirectly oppressed the habitats of wild animals. Driven by interests and vanity, many species have lived forever on this beautiful planet, the earth. disappear.

However, such creatures as the northern white rhinoceros have only a handful of populations, and human beings want to intervene and protect them, but they are already powerless.

In fact, in the 60s, there were still nearly 2000 northern white rhinos distributed in parts of northern Africa. However, due to internal wars, people had no time to care about rhinos.

After all, if people are so happy, who cares about the life and death of wild animals.

To make matters worse, when the flames of war intensified, hunting and killing the northern white rhinoceros and obtaining high rewards in exchange for arms and supplies simply dealt a severe blow to the ecology of Beibaiyi.

Logically speaking, with a community distribution of close to 2000 individuals, even though the white rhinoceros, as terrestrial mammals, have relatively low fertility, they will not die out in a short period of time.

Therefore, in just over 20 years, in the mid-80s, there were only 15 northern white rhinos in Africa's Garamba River National Park.

After 10 years of rescue and recovery, there were finally 31 of them, but unfortunately they were stolen by humans, and the northern white rhino was declared extinct in the wild.

There is no doubt that Lin Yang's words made Yue Er dumbfounded.

"What? Hunting rhino horns for military expenses? I am convinced of this wave of operations."

Not only Yue'er, even the tens of millions of water friends in the live broadcast room have almost the same views.

People originally thought that the reason for the war made humans ignore the protection of wild animals. As a result, the good guy joined the poachers and exchanged wild animals for bullets.

"I didn't expect this wave of operations..."

"Good Nimaxiu, my scalp is numb because of the show, and the northern white rhinoceros has suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck!"

"In comparison, the situation of the southern white rhinoceros is much better, so reincarnation is a skill."

"In other words, has there been no northern white rhino in the wild since then? What a pity!"

Lin Yang went on to say: "Although the Beibai River was not protected in their hometown and was even hunted excessively, a small country far away in Central Europe has made the last effort for the survival of the northern white rhino."

Actually.

The Prague Royal Palace Zoo in Central Europe took 1974 northern white rhinos from Africa around 6, and then imported one from England, and used these 7 northern white rhinos to give birth to 3 small northern white rhinos.

……

Although Lin Yang's narration is not over yet, what Yue'er can predict is that Lin Yang must say nothing next!

Sure enough, Lin Yang went on to talk.

"But unfortunately, after breeding four white rhino babies, these northern white rhinos stopped giving birth anyway."

From Yue'er's expression, it is not difficult to see that even though she already knew the result, she and most of the audience in the live broadcast room felt a little sad for such a sudden development of the plot.

Perhaps after the northern white rhino became extinct in the wild, those white rhinos that were protected in zoos seemed to be gradually losing their developmental capabilities, all of which seemed to be paving the way for the complete extinction of the northern white rhino.

When the timeline about the past of the northern white rhino came to 2009, the 4 northern white rhinos that survived in the Central European Zoo were sent to the Olteja Wildlife Nature Reserve in Africa. The reason is very simple, Olpeia Ta is the hometown of these northern white rhinos. The white rhinos in captivity are different from those in the wild.

Perhaps at that time, zoologists would also naively think that if they were released into the wild, they might be able to continue to reproduce.

Lin Yang went on to say: "The four northern white rhinos that were sent back to North Africa from Central Europe happened to be matched with two pairs."

Yue'er seemed to be able to understand the initial thoughts of the animal protectors.

She said: "Perhaps in people's ideal plan, these four northern white rhinos can make up two couples, which is not a special situation."

The fact is indeed the case, there is still a complex relationship between northern white rhinos, if possible, they can give birth to a baby northern white rhino every 4 to 5 years, and their offspring may be able to re-spawn under protection leaf.

It's just that this plan, led by the World Wildlife Rescue Association and established in 2009, was finally brought to an end in 2014 due to the death of the last male white rhino.

The last male white rhino was named Sudan. While it survived, there were actually two female white rhinos still alive, in order to ensure the last continuation of the white rhino species.

The World Wildlife Rescue Association, in conjunction with the local military and relevant departments, has carried out all-round protection for the last male white rhino Sudan.

(End of this chapter)