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Lin Hao looked at the sign and was shocked.

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

I thought tigers and bears, such as carnivorous beasts, might be more dangerous, but it seems that the accident was in a circus or in a zoo. Now I really haven’t heard of anyone who was killed by a tiger in the wild. On the contrary, it is in the impression of an elephant. The meek giant has such a cruel side.

Put yourself in the position and think about it. It's a huge monster that can squash people with one foot, which can't be blocked by a wall near his house. He often comes to the fields to see if there is anything to eat. It is estimated that you will have to worry about going to bed at night.

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

With this question, continue to look down!

In 1999, Professor Zhang, an authority on elephant research in China, just started to conduct domestic elephant surveys to study their numbers, distribution and habits.

The number of elephants is difficult to count!

They have no concept of borders. They may eat in the country in the morning and go to Laos in the afternoon. Researchers can't cross the border casually, they can only use clumsy methods to inquire about the situation in the village, and make statistics from village to village.

Ask if there are 5 elephants in this village, and then go to a village a couple of kilometers away and ask about 10 elephants. The number of elephants cannot be simply superimposed, or it is still unclear how many elephants there are. Later, according to the outline of the elephant's ears, the shape of the ivory, and the individual identification, each elephant was given a name to distinguish different elephant families.

I traveled to all the places where elephants were once distributed in history. In this way, after 20 years of hard work, I gradually counted the number of elephant herds.

Only less than 250 wild Asian elephants were found in China!

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

Lin Hao's eyes widened: "Stunned!"

The number of African elephants is recorded in the hundreds of thousands. I thought that the number of elephants in China would be thousands, right?

I really don’t understand. With just 200 elephants, Yunnan is also the place with the best environment in China and the densest forest, right? So what’s not enough for such a large forest? Why are there so many conflicts with people?

In recent years, the number of casualties and economic losses caused by elephants has increased each 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 of them are rubber forests.

As an important industrial raw material, rubber has been introduced to China since the 1960s and grown from scratch. Refer to the "Statistical Bulletin of National Economic and Social Development of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture" and "Yunnan Statistical Yearbook", 1990, 2000, 2000, In 2010 and 2014, the official statistical area of ​​rubber forest in Xishuangbanna was 8.50, 13.20, 27.13, and 337,200 hectares, respectively. The remote sensing monitoring area in 14 years was larger than the statistics, reaching 37.66 hectares.

The area of ​​Xishuangbanna is only 191 hectares, and rubber forests are planted for a quarter of the area.

Although the rubber forest is also a tree, elephants do not like to eat, and other animals do not like to eat. The same tropical rain forest may contain hundreds of plants. The rubber forest is a kind of rubber plant, so it is also called a green desert. Just looking green, there is no species diversity.

The area that is gradually increasing is not only rubber forests, but also economic crops such as tea and bananas, as well as cultivated fields.

Pu'er City was originally called Simao. Later, because the Pu'er tea produced in Pu'er was so famous, it was renamed Pu'er.

After 2000, the price of rubber soared, and the people basically finished planting rubber wherever they could.

Planting rubber trees even breaks through areas suitable for rubber growth. The suitable altitude for rubber growth is 900 meters, and it was planted at an altitude of 1500 meters.

The rubber is still a small tree after ten years, and the rubber cannot be cut. A large area of ​​tropical and subtropical vegetation has been destroyed.

And 900 meters above sea level suitable for rubber growth is another area where Asian elephants like to move.

Now Xishuangbanna is the most suitable habitat for Asian elephants, with an area of ​​less than 5%.

It was not until 15 years that the prices of raw materials dropped rapidly due to the excessive planting, and the people stopped growing rubber.

However, in recent years, because the price of tea has risen sharply, trees have been cut down to grow tea again.

The government started to manage it after 13 years and could not cut down trees casually. However, the common people also have a coup, cutting off the bark, or using toxic chemicals, and waiting for the original forest trees to die "naturally", then cash crops can be planted.

There is money to grow cash crops, but there is no money to protect the environment.

In 2002, the per capita income of farmers in the reserve was 1,306 yuan, while the national per capita disposable income was 6,110 yuan that year.

Planting crops will be destroyed by elephants. Planting rubber elephants doesn't like to eat, and they make money.

In the words of local people, those who use iPhones in cities have any right to accuse themselves of watching TV.

In the eyes of elephants, whether it is wild plantains or human crops, they all grow by nature. There is nothing belonging to them, only the difference between being able to eat and not being able to eat.

The crops that humans have worked so hard to grow are nothing more than edible things in their eyes.

When there are fewer and fewer vegetation suitable for survival in the habitat, elephants will naturally choose to go to villages and eat crops more, and the people want to defend their property, and conflicts naturally arise.

After Lin Hao read the reasons behind the conflict, he couldn't say what he wanted to say, and finally sighed depressed!

The problem of human-elephant conflict is still very complicated.

To accuse the people of destroying the environment, they are suffering from elephants. Is it wrong to pursue the beauty of life? Is it wrong to want to watch TV?

Is it wrong for elephants to eat crops? All kinds of cash crops, UU reading www. uukanshu.com doesn't have to go to eat crops.

Is there any solution?

Another story was told on the display.

There are two stockades in the local area, one is called Shangzhai and the other is Bo'e.

The villagers in Shangzhai are traditional Dai villages, and the common people regard elephants as mascots.

After the elephant arrived in Shangzhai, he would not be disturbed by any interference, and walked the ridge road through the village with ease.

The villagers in Po'e are not ethnic minorities. When the elephants arrive, people are very nervous and drive them away with gongs and drums. The elephants were also scared and ran around in the rice fields and trampled on the fields.

It's not because elephants are spiritual, knowing who likes themselves and who hates themselves.

Elephants have their own migration channels, so long as no one interferes, they will go their own way. Instead, it frightened it and caused even greater losses.

People's attitude towards elephants also affects their attitude towards people.