Coincidentally, many years ago, Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, opened a section called "Ant Forest" in Alibaba's Alipay and promised to plant a tree every year to complete the green environmental protection public welfare and respond to the country's environmental protection call. Now that 6 years have passed, what is the "ant forest"? Some netizens shouted: Does Ma Yun owe hundreds of millions of people for tree planting?
Are trees planted or not? Netizens took pictures to question
Almost everyone who has used Alipay knows that "Ant Forest", a public welfare activity that drives public awareness of environmental protection, people collect "green energy" through various ways, complete tree watering, and help trees grow.
For each successful watering of a tree, Alibaba will plant a tree in the desert area, and everyone can receive the planting land and type of tree according to their expectations before planting the tree.
A large number of active users of Alipay are insisting on participating in this online public welfare activity, collecting "green energy" through various ways such as walking and online payment. To this day, the "Ant Forest" still has a high degree of activity.
However, not long ago, a photo pushed the suspected fraud of "Ant Forest" to the peak of public opinion. In the process of traveling to Alxa, a netizen took a picture of Lin No. 277.
It is reported that this public welfare forest has been announced to be planted as early as 2019, but when netizens went to Alxa to take photos of the public welfare forest after that, they looked desolate and had no shadow of trees.
A large number of netizens were furious because of this photo: Why did the 150,000 trees that were said to be good have become a desert bunker? More and more people feel that Ma Yun is just using grandiose-sounding lies to practice the reality of a capitalist in the name of environmental protection. Use "ant forest" to bo traffic, bo goodwill, do "carbon trading"!
Are trees planted or not? In the face of netizens' questioning, Alipay officials stood up for the first time and responded, saying that this forest land has indeed completed the planting of 150,000 shuttles.
The reason why what you see on the photos of netizens is a desolate, mainly because the local planting conditions are relatively poor, there is a long planting distance between each shuttle, and the growth rate of the shuttle is slower under the harsh environment, resulting in a distance to see only sand pits and no trees.
At the same time, it also reminds netizens that as long as they are close to watch, they will find that there are shuttles in each bunker, and Alipay has hired a special person in charge to regularly accept the survival of the shuttles, and those who do not meet the standards will be pulled out of the heavy treatment.
In order to explore whether what Alipay said was true, some media reporters deliberately went to Alxa No. 277 Forest to explore the scene, and the reporter learned the specific facts accompanied by local forestry personnel.
As Alipay said, No. 277 Forest has completed 150,000 shuttles planted in the soil as early as 2019, but because the local desertification is more serious, the growth rate of shuttles themselves is relatively slow, so most of the planted shuttles are not yet thick with chopsticks.
Forestry personnel also said that in the case of proper care, the shuttle can grow to about 30 to 40 centimeters, but because of the harsh local environment, most of the shuttles are currently only about 10 centimeters, only a little green exposed to the ground, from a distance even the green shadow can not be seen, only when close can you find a clump of grass figure.
It seems that those netizens who said that Ma Yun lied and questioned Alibaba's "carbon trading" really blamed them this time, and Ma Yun did fulfill his promise to complete the planting of trees.
The "ant forest" is still moving forward, and the practical significance is touching
Putting aside the purpose of commercial operation, the "Ant Forest" launched by Alipay has indeed been continuously promoting the desert oasis project, and in the past 6 years, it has continuously planted trees in the desert and hired special personnel to protect and maintain trees, which is difficult and the efforts made cannot be denied.
Creating an oasis in the desert is not an easy task, and planting trees is to build a green barrier and use these green vegetation to fix the sand and reduce the water loss from the land caused by desertification.
"Ant planting trees" is obviously not a scam laid by Ma Yun, but a green environmental protection project that is actually being promoted, which has even been told at the United Nations Environment Assembly and has a certain reputation in the world.
Digging deep into the meaning behind the "Ant Forest" project will inevitably move more people who love environmental protection. Under the premise of not having to go to the desert area to plant trees in person, it can also stimulate the public's environmental protection concept and environmental awareness, which is the original purpose of "Ant Forest", through online activities to drive more people to participate in environmental protection and ecological protection actions, when the public's environmental awareness is improved.
As we all know, if you complete the watering of a tree on Alipay, you can get a tree planting certificate, and you can also get the national voluntary tree planting responsibility letter, which is a spiritual recognition and can also inspire more people to actively participate in environmental protection activities in real life.
epilogue
6 years forward, 6 years of persistence, still continuing, the pace of "ant forest" has never stopped, nor has it slowed down. Although this time netizens took photos to question Alipay's "ant forest" activity fraud is a oolong incident, but this also fully demonstrates the benefits of public supervision, I believe that under the expectation and attention of more Chinese people, every tree we planted in the "ant forest" can be transformed into green in the desert. What do you think about that?
Today's topic: Has Jack Ma promised hundreds of millions of trees? After 6 years, what happened to the ant forest?