In 1997, a brand certification officer named Quan Li embarked on a trip to South Africa.
Under the guidance of the tour guide, Quan Li enjoyed the scenery of the African savannah and encountered lions up close.
The lions are close at hand, and the danger is imminent, but Quan Li has glanced at this group of kings of the African savannah for ten thousand years.
She made an amazing decision: to establish an African rewilding training base to protect the South China tiger!
In October 2000, Quan Li founded the International Federation of "Save the Chinese Tiger" in London.
Later, a cooperation agreement was signed with the China Forestry Administration on the Chinese tiger release plan, and in 2002, five South China tigers were successively placed in the African rewilding training base.
Quan Li and South China Tiger
Immediately, various controversies obliterated the "Queen in Prada", and relevant local organizations in Africa repeatedly issued arrest warrants to Quan Li.
In the face of the numerous discussions from the outside world, Quan Li is not humble and actively responds.
It was not until one day in November 2007 that a South China tiger cub was born at the African wilding training base established by Quan Li, that the voice of doubt died down a little.
Is the "study abroad" of the king of five hundred beasts in a foreign country smooth? How is rewilding training going?
Journey to Africa
In 1962, a baby girl Quanli was born in the capital Beijing.
Quan Li was born in the right time and place, and she herself was ice and snow smart, and she was successfully admitted to Peking University.
After entering the university, Quan Li was still not inferior to others, and after successfully graduating, she was admitted to the Wharton School in the United States in 1984 to pursue an MBA degree.
This trip to the United States gave Quan Li a lot of knowledge, and she also met her unique Lanyan confidante Stuart vray.
Quan Li and Stewart
The two love to socialize, often go out to play together, and over time they have a good feeling for each other and come together.
After graduating, Stewart moved into finance, while Quan Li entered the Italian fashion industry in 1990 as Gucci's global brand certification officer.
Work is going well, and Quan Li and Stewart's relationship is getting better and better.
Stewart knelt down on one knee and handed the engagement ring to her beloved goddess, and Jeonley was moved to tears and accepted Stewart's proposal.
The two got together sweetly, discussed how to prepare for the wedding, and agreed to travel to Africa once before the wedding.
In 1997, Quan Li and Stewart were guided by a guided tour of the mysterious land of Africa.
The African savannah stretches as far as the eye can see, and Quan Li is deeply enchanted by the beautiful natural scenery.
The tour guide introduced the scenery and animals along the way, and Quan Li looked around curiously and proposed to get off the bus and walk.
The tour guide agreed to Quan Li's proposal and walked out of the jeep with the two customers.
Lions
The tour guide stopped and introduced the surrounding scenery to Quan Li and the two, and suddenly the tour guide stopped: "Please stop first, Ms. Quan Li, there are lions in the grass 20 meters to your left." ”
Quan Li looked in the direction the guide said, and sure enough, there were several lionesses with cubs in the grass not far away, lazily basking in the sun.
The tour guide instructed Quan Li to walk slowly away from the lions, but before she took a few steps, she encountered a few male lions.
Quan Li is a child who grew up in the city, and she was excited to see a lion for the first time, completely ignoring the danger that was slowly approaching, and raised the camera with a big grin, wanting to take pictures.
"Miss Quan Li! Don't move, don't take your eyes off the lion, slowly retreat, come to me. The tour guide looked panicked and stopped Quan Li's behavior, for fear that the layman Quan Li would annoy the lion.
Quan Li came to the grassland for the first time, and did not know that her actions would anger the lion, but she was forced by the tour guide's ear to face and could only return to the tour guide.
Lion
The tour guide was still a little shocked: "Do you know how dangerous it was just now, we are between the male lion and the lioness, this is people's territory, I don't have enough bullets in my gun, it really annoys the lions, and it is difficult for a few of us to survive..."
Quan Li lowered her head and listened to the tour guide, but her thoughts drifted far away.
The trip to Africa was extraordinary, and Quan Li, who experienced the natural scenery, was a little unfulfilled, so in the summer of 1998, Quan Li went to explore the depths of the Namibian desert.
Quan Li was driving to explore the desert, and suddenly, a cheetah came out and approached Quan Li.
The appearance of cheetahs in the desert was unheard of by Quan Li, and her brain was stunned in place.
While Quan Li was in a daze, the cheetah had already slipped near the car.
The cheetah stared at Quan Li with a pair of big golden eyes, and his eyes were full of begging.
Quan Li read Cheetah's eyes, but she was not a professional after all, so she did not dare to get off the car rashly.
After four or five minutes, the cheetah saw that there was no movement in the car and turned away in disappointment.
cheetah
Quan Li drove back to the hotel to call the police, and also recounted in detail with the hotel management what she had just experienced.
How can cheetahs appear in desert areas?
Hotel officials told Quan Li that a few years ago, the Republic of Namibia allowed private keeping of big cats such as cheetahs, but just a month ago, a new ordinance was issued prohibiting private keeping of wild animals.
In order to avoid responsibility, the local rich who raise wild animals release the animals, and Quan Li encounters a cheetah that was released.
Some people raised cheetahs because of a whim, but cheetahs have been raised for too long, have lost their ability to survive in the wild, and now suddenly return to the wild, waiting for cheetahs, only death.
After returning to China, Quan Li still thought about the cheetah, but she was weak at that time and could not shelter the poor and helpless leopard.
Quan Li's life is still going well, but she has a new hobby, whenever she has time, she looks up information about various wild animals online.
South China Tiger
During this time, she learned about an animal with a bad fate living in China - the South China tiger.
Transform into a tiger girl
At that time, the South China tiger was listed as a Class 1 endangered species and was extinct in the wild.
The small number of South China tigers that survived were raised in captivity and could only be spent the rest of their lives in zoos.
The South China tiger is a subspecies of tiger unique to China, originally the king of the mountains and forests, but now it is attached to humans, and it is a pity to spend its life in the small world of the zoo.
Quan Li looked at the photo of the South China Tiger and fell into deep thought, and a fire burned in her heart, which was difficult to extinguish for a long time.
Quan Li deeply regretted that she had not been able to protect the cheetah before, and this time she did not want to stand idly by, and wanted to contribute her strength to protect the mainland South China tiger.
In October 2000, Quan Li began her bold rescue operation, establishing the "Save the Chinese Tiger" International Federation in London.
Quan Li
This is the world's first charitable foundation dedicated to the protection of Chinese tigers and other big cats in China.
Quan Li has her own ideas, and if she wants to save Chinese tigers, she must first give them a suitable living environment.
Quan Li returned to China to find suitable habitats for South China tigers, and conducted field investigations in Yihuang, Jiangxi Province, and Meihua Mountain in Fujian.
Quan Li has traveled a lot of places and found many feng shui treasures suitable for the survival of South China tigers, but due to various conditions, China's wild areas have never been built.
Seeing that the South China tiger was decreasing day by day, Quan Li's heart became more and more anxious.
Perhaps in a hurry, Quan Li suddenly remembered her previous trip to Africa.
There are so many animals in the African savannah, which is the best place to cultivate the wild nature of South China tigers.
In November 2002, with the financial support of her husband Stewart, Quan Li spent 6 million US dollars to acquire a sheep farm in South Africa, covering a total area of more than 30,000 hectares, and established a rewilding training base.
Tiger Woods
With the training ground, Quan Li approached the China Forestry Administration and signed a cooperation agreement with the Chinese tiger release plan, sending two tiger cubs "Cathay" and "Hope" from Shanghai Zoo to the South African rewilding training base.
"Cathay" and "Hope" became the first batch of study tigers to study abroad, attracting much attention, and Quan Li was also dubbed "Tiger Girl".
The rewilding training of South China tigers is quite a bold attempt, and if successful, it will be the first historic breakthrough in the history of human wildlife rescue.
But after all, it is a new attempt, and the feasibility is still unknown, so from the first moment "Cathay" and "Hope" set foot in South Africa, the controversy poured to Quanli.
In the face of controversy, Quan Li was neither humble nor arrogant, and while throwing into the rewilding training base, he took out Zhuge Liang's momentum of the tongue battle group to confront the opposition forces, but everything was just the beginning.
Cathay and Tiger Woods
The two little tigers are "city children" who are completely uncomfortable when they first arrive in South Africa, and Quan Li is also a "tiger mother" for the first time, and everything has to be learned from scratch.
Quan Li led the team to purchase some poultry and antelope, and the little tiger had never seen an antelope, so he did not dare to step forward at all, but just watched from afar.
In order to enrich the species in the rewilding training base and let the little tigers gain insight, Quan Li spared no expense to buy springbok, white-faced antelope and wildebeest.
Over time, the little tigers gradually became familiar with everything, learned to hunt roosters independently, and recovered a little wildness.
This achievement made headlines and was praised, but the next day a local welfare organization in Africa took Quan Li to the police station, wanting to arrest Quan Li on charges of indirect animal cruelty.
It was hard to let the little tiger learn to hunt, but was charged with abusing a rooster, Quan Li was depressed, and directly asked the best lawyer in South Africa to file a lawsuit.
Tiger Woods and Madonna
With excellent lawyers sitting in town, life is much better, but the local authorities still secretly do a lot of tricks to arrest Quan Li for other reasons.
Quan Li was concentrating on watching the little tigers, when suddenly the lawyer called and said that Quan Li had stolen someone else's videotape, and that the South African authorities wanted Quan Li, and Quan Li must rush back to Johannesburg as quickly as possible.
The lawyer was very anxious, but Quan Li listened more and more angrily, she knew very well that she was being targeted, but she could only abscond in fear of crime.
Quan Li told her lawyer with some gambling: "If they want to arrest me, they will come to South Africa, so I will not go to Johannesburg." ”
Quan Li hung up the phone and ran to take care of the tiger, and the lawyer called again was already busy.
The lawyer could not contact Quan Li, so he could only call Quan Li's husband Stewart.
Death of "hope"
At that time, Stewart was on a business trip in Hong Kong, and after listening to the lawyer's words, he flew back to South Africa overnight to advise Quan Li and drag Quan Li back to Johannesburg.
Hope and Cathay
After avoiding the disaster for a few days, Quan Li thought about the tigers at the base and flew back to South Africa, and the wanted order was closed because there was no conclusive evidence.
After that, some institutions still found Quan Li troubles one after another, but there was not enough evidence in hand to arrest Quan Li.
The storm continues, and the days go on as usual.
In October 2004, the rewilding training base welcomed two new members, "Tiger Woods" and "Madonna", and the rewilding training also achieved initial results.
After adapting to the environment, the tigers grew up quickly, caught antelopes, ate porcupines, and became more and more prosperous in the 30,000-hectare South African camp, showing their royal style.
Quan Li was very happy to see the tigers thriving, but before she could be happy for long, the rewilding training base ushered in the biggest disaster since it was built.
On August 20, 2005, Xiaohu, named "Hope", suddenly fell to the ground, and Quan Li took the experts of the base to give anesthesia to "Hope", ready to take "Hope" to take a drip.
Hope to play with Cathay
But at the moment of needle insertion, the medical team was stunned to find that "hope" was no longer breathing.
At that time, "Hope" was only two years old, in his teenage years, why did he die without warning?
In fact, a few days ago, "Hope" was a little constipated, and a few days later he began to have dysentery, which is very abnormal.
On August 20, "Hope" suddenly fell headlong and never woke up.
In order to find out the cause of "Hope"'s death, Quan Li's medical team dissected "Hope" and found that "Hope" had pneumonia, which also caused heart failure.
Hope's heart is half the size of a tiger of the same age, and it can't withstand lung disease.
After the death of "Hope", Quan Li's career suffered a heavy blow, and all parties were overwhelmed with doubts about Quan Li and his wife, and what was worse was that "Cathay", who had always been dependent on "Hope", could not accept the fact that "Hope" died.
Hope to hunt antelope
The two tigers came from the same zoo, which can be regarded as childhood sweethearts, and after arriving at the base, they also received rewilding training together and have never been separated.
Two little tigers with no guesses went from ignorance to learning to hunt, and they went through too many storms together.
In the beginning, the tigers did not recognize the threat at all, they had no mother to teach them, and everything had to start from scratch.
In the early hours of one morning, there was a problem with the power grid at the base, and 500 meters away, a group of baboons was trying to "escape" near the power grid.
The staff saw a large group of baboons haunted, afraid that the baboons would hurt the tigers, and rushed to the tigers to check the situation.
Sure enough, as the staff expected, Little Tiger had no vigilance against the baboon, especially "Hope", and the tiger head provoked the baboon and was caught with a big mouth.
Quan Li hurriedly looked for a veterinarian, cleaned the wound for "Hope" after anesthesia, and took more than 30 stitches to sew up the bloody hole that was caught on "Hope".
Madonna and Hope
The injuries on "Hope" quickly healed, but the wounds in his heart could not be healed for a long time, and he no longer dared to take half a step out of the cage.
In the end, it was Cathay Pacific who constantly encouraged "Hope" to regain its kingly demeanor, walk out of the camp and return to the rewilding training base to continue receiving wild training.
"Cathay" and "Hope" have had a particularly good relationship since childhood, and now that "Hope" is gone, "Cathay" is more mourning than death, and every day they are depressed and roaring at the sky.
Quan Li looked anxious in her eyes and put "Cathay" in the area where "Tiger Woods" and "Madonna" were located.
With a new partner, "Cathay" got some solace, which stopped yelling.
In order to fill the vacancy of "hope", the male tiger "327" of Suzhou Zoo also came to the training base.
Hope and Cathay
"Cathay" is full of curiosity about "327", but "327" is a native city child, after arriving in Africa, he was completely unadaptable, and even the soles of his feet did not dare to step on the ground, and he was put in the wild and remained motionless until the staff took it home.
For "Cathay", "327" is even more afraid to do it, and does not dare to approach at all.
"327"'s plan to replace "Hope" as "Cathay's" new boyfriend failed, and Quan Li could only pin all her hopes on "Tiger Woods".
The purpose of the rewilding training base is to cultivate the wildness of the South China tiger, and it is hoped that the South China tiger can spread its branches and leaves in this land, and successfully reproduce in the wildness, so that the newborn tiger can return to the homeland and become the king of the mountains.
For this goal, Quan Li disdained to work hard, and finally won widespread attention and support at home and abroad.
After learning about Quan Li's actions, star Jackie Chan became a Chinese tiger ambassador for free.
Staff treat hope
A Chinese philanthropist generously contributed £50,000 to help build a new tiger house at the rewilding training base.
At the end of 2007, there was good news from the rewilding training base - the first South China tiger cub outside China was born.
It is difficult for the "study abroad tiger" to return to China
The little tiger is milky and cute, and Quan Li's heart is fast when she holds the newborn tiger cub, and she is more determined to continue to implement the South African wilding plan.
Little Tiger is the child of "Cathay" and "Tiger Woods" named "Tiger Purr".
"Tiger Purr" is the pearl of the rewilding training base, and it is the second generation of study tigers that pour everyone's hopes into.
Rewilding training for the second generation of tigers is much easier than the first generation.
When he gave birth to "Tiger", "Cathay" was already the king of the rewilding training base, and he was able to personally teach "Tiger" how to identify danger and how to hunt.
327 and Madonna
"Tiger" grew up smoothly under the care of his mother "Cathay", and soon, "Cathay" once again had new offspring with "Tiger Woods" and gave birth to twins.
At the same time, "Madonna" also successfully gave birth to 2 tiger cubs, but unfortunately one died in difficult labor, and the other infected bacteria did not survive smoothly.
Fortunately, the tiger was fertile enough, and it didn't take long for "Madonna" to give birth to another pair of twins.
This time, "Madonna" was born in the wild woods without human intervention, which greatly surprised Quan Li and increased people's confidence in the South China tiger rewilding training program.
The living conditions in the wild are not as good as greenhouses, Quan Li gradually let go, allowing the South China tigers to develop freely, some tigers grow up smoothly, and some will encounter accidents and be preyed on by other animals.
After the increase in the number of South China tigers, new problems arose at the base.
Tiger Purr
The two ladies, "Cathay" and "Madonna", began to look at each other unfavorably, sometimes making small fights.
Time flew by, and the second generation of South China tigers grew up.
In 2010, the five surviving second-generation South China tigers adapted to their wild habitat and learned to hunt using techniques such as covert camouflage, round-up, ambush, hunt and bite the neck.
The South China tigers' study abroad trip to Africa has been smooth so far, and Quanli has received more and more recognition and encouragement.
It stands to reason that the South China Tiger's return to China is expected to take place within a few years, but the founder of the plan, Quan Li, is caught in a divorce storm.
"All the people were taken advantage of by my husband... Especially foundations. ”
Quan Li devoted herself to the rewilding training base, but her husband has always been uninterested in this kind of public welfare activities, and at first did not particularly support the South China Tiger rewilding training program.
wish
Until Stewart discovered that the charitable fund could bring him benefits, he began to use the charitable fund as a cover, committed illegal acts such as tax evasion, and benefited from it.
According to Quanli, Stuart, an American banker, deposited the money they received into a trust and left a "back door" in the trust institution, putting the foundation's funds at risk.
Quan Li and her husband got into a fierce dispute after discovering that she was gradually replacing Save the Chinese Tigers with his business entity, the International Nature Conservation Finance Corporation, so that the former could become the operator of the tiger conservation project.
Quan Li filed for divorce from her husband, but Stewart flatly denied all the allegations.
The relationship between the two became increasingly strained, and on July 24, 2012, Stewart kicked Quan Li out of the foundation, ending any relationship between Quan Li and the Save the China Tigers International Foundation.
Quan Li
Quan Li found an excellent lawyer to file a lawsuit, but the situation still did not improve: "I have not seen a tiger for more than a year, and the relevant materials and accounts in my hand have all been taken away by my husband." ”
Ms. Quan Li devoted her youth and enthusiasm to the well-being of the South China tiger, but she herself was put into a bad situation and had to fight to protect her rights and interests like her beloved feline friends.
Quan Li founded a charitable foundation called "China Tiger Revival", divorced Stuart, and drew all boundaries.
And her favorite tigers, in a foreign country is not going well, many tigers fight each other to death, the tiger itself is very aggressive, regarded as a thorn in the side of the local residents, once out of the reserve, will be hunted by the local residents.
According to statistics, in 2020, 30 South China tigers can be seen in South Africa.
It's just that Quan Li completely broke with her ex-husband, and these released South China tigers are afraid that it will be difficult to return to their hometown in their lifetime.
Whether it is an elaborate scam or a sincere rescue plan, what will happen to the future of studying in South China Tigers.
We don't know where this group of elite students will go, but we can only silently pray that one day we can see wild South China tigers on Chinese soil again.
What do the audience and friends think of the South China Tiger's "Study Abroad" South Africa Program?
Welcome to share your views in the comment area, your recognition is our inexhaustible motivation to continue creating!