Since the reform and opening up, China has attached great importance to environmental protection issues, and the invasion of alien species at customs has been raised to an unprecedented height, so there are very few cases of invasion of alien species in China, but the United States, which is also a big country, is different, and the problem of alien species invasion has occurred repeatedly.
The invasion of alien species in the United States has a long history, which has a lot to do with the national conditions of the United States, but there is a creature that is a protected animal in China, but it has become a disaster in the United States, so what species is this? Even today's superpower, the United States, has a headache? Even at the expense of a high clearance fee, can the United States eliminate this species? What kind of impact will this have on the United States?
From pets to invasive species
Snakes that were once known as taboos in China's breeding industry have gradually become pets after entering the new century, and it is very difficult to breed snake creatures, not to mention that some of them are protected animals of the state, including pythons.
Pythons are very rare in the wild in China, so since ancient times, they have been synonymous with honor, and even once had the title of little dragon, so the python naturally became a protected animal in China, but with the passage of time, the python actually became a kind of pet, and later it was widely accepted by the world, but it harmed a country, it is the only superpower today, the United States.
The python that plagues the United States is not a native python, but a Burmese python from Southeast Asia, which is also distributed in Yunnan, China, but belongs to native organisms and does not pose a hazard to the invasion of alien species, but in the United States, it has become an alien invader, at the top of the food chain in the entire ecosystem.
Today,the area where burmese pythons are infested in the United States is mainly located in parts of Florida, because of its proximity to subtropical areas, so it is very suitable for the breeding of Burmese pythons, which also forms the basis of Burmese python flooding.
In fact, the reason why the Burmese python is flooded, and the python has a great relationship with the python to become a pet, in Florida there have been many vendors selling mini pythons at low prices, claiming to be very friendly pet snakes to humans, so a large number of Burmese pythons have entered the United States.
The Burmese python is indeed harmless in its infancy, but as it grows, many people find that it is not small, and the number is amazing, so the boom in python release began, which made the Burmese python change from a pet to the protagonist of the invasion of alien species.
After the release, thanks to the large number of swampy areas in Florida, these released Burmese pythons were provided with natural shelters, allowing these Burmese pythons to breed in large numbers, and once threatened the safety of the local ecosystem, which made the local environmental protection department a headache.
Second, pay a high price to catch Burmese pythons
When the Burmese python gradually flooded, the local environmental protection department in the United States also took emergency measures to start catching the Burmese python to prevent its flooding, but it is regrettable that for various reasons the Burmese python has been conservatively bred to 300,000 in the local area, which is very stressful for the department that catches the Burmese python, so they have to turn to the civil forces to deal with this matter.
In order to catch the Burmese python, the Florida government offered a high price, offering a reward to those who helped catch the Burmese python, and these people who caught the Burmese python as long as they catch four Burmese pythons a day, then his daily remuneration will be as high as 350 US dollars, which is definitely a high salary in Florida, and also in order to cope with the threat of the Myanmar python flood, the Florida government has also prepared 3 million US dollars for the removal of Burmese pythons, and wants to "kill them all". But even then the effect is still not particularly significant.
Although there is a high remuneration, it is not an easy task to catch Burmese pythons, especially for some people who have no professional training, catching Burmese pythons is a very dangerous thing.
Because the Burmese python lurks in the swamp for a long time, so when going deep into the swamp to catch the Burmese python, the first thing to overcome is to overcome the danger of the swamp, many hunters are drowned because they do not have good water properties, and they drown in the swamp area, which makes catching the Burmese python a very professional thing.
But even when these professionals were injured, some of them were injured because they entered the swamp, and some of them were bitten by pythons, which made the problem of medical expenses after their injuries a problem.
You must know that medical treatment in the United States is very expensive, so many people can only go to the clinic after being injured, resulting in them not getting formal and comprehensive treatment, which leaves them with regretful lifelong pain.
Because of this, even if the Florida government offers a high bounty, it is difficult to stop the Burmese python from flooding the local area, which makes the United States a country that has suffered from the invasion of Burmese pythons, so today's case in the United States has also sounded a wake-up call for many countries.
It is necessary to pay attention to the problem of invasion of alien species, but also to intervene in the invasion of alien species at the source, and at the same time to prevent the outflow of domestic species from causing harm, so as to completely solve the problem of invasion of alien species from the root.
Judging from the case of the Burmese python flooding in the United States, the invasion of alien species is an environmental protection issue that cannot be ignored, and it is also a point that countries should pay attention to.
Although the United States is an economic, military and scientific and technological, trinity power in today's world, but in the face of alien species invasion, it is still inevitable to lose, it can be seen that the best way to prevent the invasion of alien species is to grasp at the source, which makes the future on the issue of alien species invasion will form a more stringent review process to prevent the invasion of alien species.