Heyuan people in Heyuan City were sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for one year, in 201912 for illegal fishing of sparrows. His actions have attracted widespread attention. At the same time, another illegal hunting crime occurred, fined 3600 yuan, compensated for the loss of national wildlife resources, and publicly apologized in the media above the municipal level!
Still, one might ask why sparrows are so prevalent, almost universally, and so are protected animals. Could it be that sparrows are natural protectors? Are sparrows really that cute? Don't they really need protection? Don't they exist in our lives? Isn't that the case? Fines and sentences, is the sparrow really that important? "Come, listen!"
If there is anyone who hates sparrows, it is the peasant uncle! They had to go back and forth in the fields every day, and they were very busy. But, you know what? Sparrows also have their own rations! What do they eat and how do they eat it? Come and learn with me! Sparrows are omnivorous birds, eating different foods at different times of the year, spring and summer, insects are very active, sparrows' staple food is a variety of insects, and in the autumn harvest season, various plants and crops are ripe, and the staple food of sparrows becomes food!
This is where the peasant uncle hates sparrows, they eat crops, and the sparrows themselves are very gregarious birds. In the autumn harvest, the population of Wuyang Wuyang is large, from a few hundred people to a few thousand, and as many as a few thousand, how much grain is needed? Who did this? How many people? So many people? What about such a large group? How long are these sparrows? Where do they all live? How many are there? How many are there? Does it count? yes!
In the 1950s, there were many sparrows! Sparrows are a very close family species that can be found in almost any place inhabited by humans throughout China. However, people at that time did not realize this problem, and it was not until the early 70s that people realized that the sparrow was a very dangerous animal. At that time, people were very concerned about the food issue. At that time, grain was the work and life of every farmer, and it is estimated that each sparrow casts 4.5 kilograms per year, which is equivalent to 9 kilograms of grain! 9 pounds of millet do not look long, look back, you know, fearless foundation!
In 1952, the four pests were eliminated, mainly to eliminate rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows! However, the pest control work has not been very smooth. Because the environment at that time was very harsh: the smell was full of odor, and mosquitoes and flies were rampant. Mosquitoes bite people, flies bite animals; mosquitoes bite insects, flies bite humans. Rats are hard to catch, and flies and mosquitoes are not easy to kill in batches, so sparrows become the best targets! Know yourself, know yourself, know yourself, know yourself, know yourself, know yourself, know yourself, know yourself, know sparrow, know yourself, know yourself, know yourself, know yourself. Sparrows are resident birds that live all their lives near their place of birth. They range from 2.5 km to 3 km and rarely nest in trees, usually under eaves and roof tiles. Now, air conditioners, wall holes and utility poles can all be used as nests by sparrows!
Sparrows are very afraid of the noise made by people, and because of this, the noise made by people banging on gongs, banging on jars, knocking on buckets, etc., scares sparrows to fly around, but they dare not land. Later, in order to avoid this phenomenon, people plucked sparrows from trees and put them in cages. But once the sparrow entered the cage, it could not escape. So, people invented a device called a "bird cage". In the end, the sparrow fell to the ground, exhausted and starved to death, and not only that, but the whole of China mobilized to fight the sparrow on the set free shooting point, slingshot and rifle.
Because of this, this directly led to the almost extinction of sparrows in the country! It's a story that really happened, but it's not a fictional story... It was a winter evening. The outskirts of Shanghai were silent. Suddenly, a loud noise broke the tranquility of the night sky. Immediately after, a bolt of lightning appeared in the sky. On a day on December 13, 1952, the result of Shanghai Was: 194432 Sparrow! That year, in less than a year, the number of sparrows in the country was close to 2 billion! 2 billion catties of grain per year, then this 2 billion catties of grain is 9 million tons of grain per year! Now 9 kilograms, it seems too much.
At that time, not everyone was full! Famine, natural disasters, man-made disasters coexist! But do you know what happens next? The ecosystem has been destroyed, and a large number of local sparrows have been killed, which has destroyed the ecological balance and affected agricultural production! Due to the heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in crops, the microbial population in the soil has been severely damaged, and various pests in the farmland have also begun to appear on a large scale. At this time, sparrows became one of the most common delicacies on the tables of many peasant friends. The sharp decline in sparrow populations has led to a sharp increase in insect populations and a sharp decline in food production everywhere. According to statistics, the food eaten by various insects is many times that of the food eaten by sparrows, causing more famine!
Later, a study of sparrows by ornithologists found that sparrows' young birds could only eat insects, and sparrow parents would catch a large number of agricultural pests for them, which was good for agricultural production. As awareness of sparrows increased, we removed sparrows from the list of four pests and replaced them with cockroaches. However, due to various reasons, until the early 1980s, our country was the last "sparrow kingdom" in the world with sparse population, scattered distribution and poor habitat conditions. At that time, the sparrows were almost all wild. But at this time, there were no sparrows, and in order to restore the ecological environment, we had to import a large number of sparrows from the former Soviet Union, and it was in this environment that sparrows once again became commonplace on the mainland.
It is precisely because of the sparrow's emphasis on the local ecological environment that it was later listed as one of the three protected animals on the mainland! But how are sparrows included in the continental protection? This begins with the ancient records of sparrows on the mainland. In the earliest ancient book on the mainland, the Book of Poetry, there is a description of sparrows. Under the protection of the mainland's Criminal Law and the Wildlife Protection Law, many people still do not know what "three protected animals" means, that is, the state's protection of terrestrial wild animals and wild animals is beneficial or has important economic value and scientific research value! Our common toads, hares, etc. belong to these three protected animals!
I tell you, don't kill! Do you know? Animals have a completely different way of life than we humans do. As long as it's not a domestic animal, any animal can be touched without being touched, really not, you just need to walk around the zoo, walk around the safari or somewhere else! All living things have a natural law, the ecological chain is so amazing, the ecological chain fault caused by wanton destruction is not a small thing, just like in the past, only kill one sparrow, let the whole country suffer three years of natural disasters! Follow the laws of nature, do not change arbitrarily, but also abide by national laws and regulations, do not cross the line!