Remember the group of elephants that attracted national attention last year and went abroad?
Two days ago, CCTV visited the Asian elephants moving north, but there were few responses in the comment area. The follow-up of this group of animals at the top of the stream has not been cared about by many people.
Not surprising.
In the more than a year we have been watching Asian elephants, the most popular voices on the Internet are:
"They're so cute!"
And in this matter, we should pay the most attention to the problem:
The northward migration of Asian elephants is a forest warning to humanity to save itself.
Always marginalized by public opinion.
Patronizing the hunt, no one was aware of the crisis. Behind a group of cute elephants, there is a cruel reality:
The Earth's forest cover has plummeted from 66 percent in 1937 to 35 percent.
What price will humanity pay for invading the forest?
The documentary "Green Planet" jointly produced by Yangjiu, BBC, B Station and so on will tell you the answer
#没了森林,
Humanity will be doomed within this century. #
First, let's learn more about the true face of the forest.
In the human imagination, forests are full of unknown dangers and are not livable places.
The world's largest flower plant "carrion flower": it is only smelly and does not eat people
It's just that the "inhabitants" of the forest don't bring humans to play.
In their own territory, where few humans have set foot, all kinds of creatures live freely.
They're lying on their bodies
Open the forest from the perspective of a plant, and the first thing you'll see is a play... Palace fight drama.
In the human film and television world, harem concubines seek the emperor's favor.
In the world of plants, in order to get the sun's rain and dew evenly dipped, they do their best.
It all started with a spoiled concubine and the fall of a big tree.
In the forest, only 2% of the sunlight can reach the surface, and the "showgirls" must wait for the opportunity to move if they want to take the position.
As this "favored" tree fell, the light appeared, and the horn of "palace fighting" was sounded.
The seeds under the surface of the earth came out to dance for the grace of the Holy Light.
For more than a year, drama was staged everywhere in the forest.
With the large leaves, the turtle-backed bamboo is delusional to seize the most favor. Momentarily proud, he ignored his close enemy, the vine, who was taking advantage of the situation.
I saw the vines swaying with witful little tendrils, lurking up from the shadows.
There is a villain flavor
A fast and fierce whisker throwing pole, dead entangled in the back of the turtle bamboo.
Pressing the competitor under him and climbing up by himself, An Lingrong looked straight ahead and called out to the insider.
A mountain is also a mountain high.
The fight here is fiery, and the balsa wood on the other side is really witty. Mimi has already quietly jumped up ten meters and become the biggest winner of this "palace fight".
All Luthor could only look up at its triumphant figure in the shadows.
But, don't be happy too soon.
Why does balsa grow so fast? Kill eight hundred enemies and inflict three thousand self-inflicted wounds. In order to fight and win the battle lightly, it directly hollowed out itself, resulting in "osteoporosis" throughout the body.
The following is a secret warning:
Twenty years east of the river, twenty years west of the river.
(P.S. Don't buckle the broiler chicken thigh, here is a cold knowledge: the lifespan of balsa wood generally does not exceed twenty years.) ）
The defeated general of the past is still alive, and it has died.
Is this the price of a trick?
From another point of view, the competitive relationship in the forest is barbaric, but simple and orderly.
After the balsa fell, a small window was opened for the forest.
Continue to exert the residual heat and bring light and food to the "family".
By the way, the Asian elephants that eat hundreds of pounds of plants from the forest in one day are real "forest windows".
If you wait for the trees to naturally grow old and die, it will take decades or hundreds of years. Asian elephants, with just one nose, can instantly tear down a tree.
Demolishing a home is not only Erha's skill
Hence its nickname, "Forest Engineer".
In fact, the real jungle rule is not survival of the fittest, the law of the jungle, but
Interdependent cooperation and symbiosis.
Green Planet is like a documentary version of Natural history.
Open the library of nature with a fun perspective and bombard you with the most pristine beauty of the planet.
There are a myriad of strange flora and fauna.
There are also people who can't help but take crazy screenshots of every frame.
It's not too much to say about Wonderland
Green Planet? It's a happy planet.
However, at the end of the first episode, a scene suddenly appeared that broke my defenses:
In the midst of the greenery, David Attenborough, the father of the world's nature documentaries, reads the diary Darwin wrote two hundred years ago.
After experiencing the beauty of the natural world
The one that left the deepest impression on my mind
There is still no more primeval forest that has not been defiled by human hands
At this point, the lens zooms away.
The rainforest that originally grew barbarically has been invaded by humans to only a small piece.
Under the siege of the vast rubber forest, this last small forest is trembling.
The few remaining forests of the earth are facing such a desperate situation.
They were once the owners of the land.
Today, it is either broken or fragmented, desperate to survive in the vast expanse of human habitation.
If Darwin had been alive, he would have had a hard time finding another piece of primeval forest.
In order to develop the economy, human beings have destroyed the "wildness" of the forest with a big wave.
Did you really win?
The answer, the primary school textbook has long told us
Biodiversity is the foundation of life on Earth.
The disappearance of the "wildness" of the forest means that diversity becomes single. When the food chain is broken and the species behaves abnormally, can humans still be left alone?
It's impossible to think about.
Without saying far, look at the home of the asian elephant who moved north to us nearest - Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest.
Image source GQ Report | Elephant Journey: Out of the Rainforest
Some people may say: Isn't it healthy to be full of green eyes and lush foliage?
You look closely.
Which is a tropical rainforest, most of them are "empty forests" with a single species and age.
From 2000 to 2018, the area suitable for Asian elephants in Xishuangbanna decreased by 40.68%, and natural shrubs and trees were cut down and replaced by farmland, tea fields and rubber forests. (Source: China Environment News, June 21)
Usually it is not obvious to see.
As soon as the leaf fall season comes, the greedy aggression of human beings against nature will be exposed. Only a small patch of evergreen rainforest remains, and the mountain is a large patch of baldness after the "empty forest" leaves.
Think globally.
Even the situation of the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest on earth, has long been in jeopardy.
The number of fires has soared, some flora and fauna are on the brink of extinction, and biodiversity has plummeted.
Human deforestation has been carried out in large quantities, and the area of rainforests continues to shrink.
In the year from August 2020 to July 21 alone, the rainforest area shrank by 10,476 square kilometers. (Source: Amazon Institute for Human and Environmental Research Report)
Image source surging news
What is the concept of this number? Equivalent to 99.39 Paris.
If human beings continue to toss with their eyes closed like this, sooner or later, the forest will disappear from this planet.
By then, will we lose only forests?
The year before, David Attenborough and Netflix collaborated on a documentary called A Journey of Life on Earth. The old man who has always been neutral and objective, it is rare to "make emotions" in front of the camera.
He was heartbroken.
He bowed his head and exhorted all his fellow citizens: If you don't act again, it will be too late.
Yes, no longer stop, humanity will be in this century
Witness the sixth mass extinction.
What do you mean?
A little bit of disc to show you:
By 2030.
As diversity disappears, forests fail to release enough moisture, and the global hydrological cycle changes.
There will be no more ice in the Arctic in summer, and the Amazon rainforest will burn to ashes.
Don't think it's just predictions, it's not a good idea.
The news of global warming and melting glaciers, have humans seen less in recent years? As early as three years ago, the world's largest glacier, A68a, had melted and split.
After the glacier, the permafrost is followed by thawing.
By 2040.
As the permafrost melts, a gas several times more powerful than carbon dioxide is released in the air: methane.
Dramatically accelerating global warming.
In the movie "Finch", the temperature of the earth soars and the scene of human beings being swallowed up by natural disasters will become a reality.
By 2050.
The sea is also doomed. The temperature rises, the sea acidifies, and the sea level is no longer colorful.
Instead, there were piles of white bones.
By 2080.
The soil is poor and there is no food to produce, and extreme natural disasters have broken out everywhere. On Earth, it is difficult to find a place to live.
Do you still need to go on?
If there is no intervention to save the measures. Within this century, the sixth mass extinction will take place.
And the culprit of all this: human beings, will eventually usher in the "judgment" of nature: the death penalty.
Don't think David Attenborough is creating panic, the above prediction is not his personal one-sided statement.
The documentary's co-producers are also WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature). Even if you don't believe in the old man who has 70 years of experience in exploring nature, you have to believe the warnings of scientists, right?
In fact, scientists have long warned the world in various ways.
Not long ago, before COP26 (26th United Nations Climate Change Conference).
The President of the General Assembly issued the harshest "doomsday" warning to date.
However, is humanity really aware of the crisis?
In the past, human beings living around the rainforest believed that "the mountain has the Lord, and the tree has the soul." ”
But now, in order to make room for rubber, in some areas of Xishuangbanna, local young people do not mind cutting down the sacred trees that have been worshipped for generations.
The reverence for nature has long ceased to exist.
And that's not even the most annoying. After Li Bingbing visited elephants in Africa, she shared many killings on Weibo.
If you've seen the documentary Virunga, you'll know
In Africa's Virunga National Park, killings are staged every day.
The regulatory gap created by the Congolese civil war and coup d'état. Colonists, multinational corporations, locals... All those who are eyeing nature are wantonly killing and robbing.
Greedily cut down trees and hunt down human close relatives: mountain gorillas.
Even the rangers who "stood in the way" were brutally killed.
Don't talk about awe.
In order to make money, these people are full of malice towards nature.
From the 19th century to the present, it has never stopped.
Writing this, Uncle Meat fully understood the bowing and silence of David Attenborough.
In this farce, only nature is awake.
Despite being treated maliciously, they still obey the law of the jungle of "interdependence, cooperation and symbiosis".
She has been kind to human beings.
Just like the dozen or so Asian elephants that migrated north, they went out and traveled more than 2,000 kilometers to blow a "whistle" to human beings.
Do humans hear it?
When will humans realize that they are also animals and members of the natural ecosystem, rather than the manipulators who dominate everything?
When one day, she found that her conscience had been wrongly paid.
And guess she would have retaliated against the humans who hurt her?
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