The sun is shining brightly, and animals are infested. On the morning of December 30, the 2023 Wuhan Park Cultural Season "Our Festival" series of activities with the theme of ""Fun" Love Wild Animals, Say No Hey!", started a meaningful holiday journey at Wuhan Zoo. This activity, with "popular science + knowledge quiz" as the main line, aims to advocate citizens and tourists to visit the park in a civilized manner and prohibit feeding animals.
Do not feed the alliance on New Year's Day
Interesting science popularization and interaction with the public
At the event site, an egg-shaped device with the words "No-Feed Together" attracted everyone's attention - the staff was calling on the tourists to deliver the carrots, vegetables and other foods they brought, and the staff of Zhongbai Lawson convenience store also sent warm snacks to the tourists who delivered the food. This move has aroused the curiosity of many citizens.
Peng Shaobo, a science instructor from Wuhan Zoo, told us that since the opening of the park on National Day, tens of thousands of tourists have come to visit every day. Subsequently, the problem of citizens "feeding" animals has also become a problem for the management of the park. Frequent discouragement, repeated preaching, and increased cleaning times...... The Wuhan Zoo spends a lot of time every day trying to persuade the public to refuse to feed them, but the ban continues. For the first time, this event united forces from all walks of life to say NO to the phenomenon of "feeding"!
"How many meals do giant pandas eat a day?" and "How many kilograms of meat do Siberian tigers eat a day?" Under the guidance of the host, ten questions were thrown out one after another, attracting tourists to stop and watch.
"Why can't you feed small animals in the zoo?" Peng Shaobo, a science tutor, continued: "There are 138 species of animals living in Wuhan Zoo, and they have different dietary Xi habits and physical conditions. Excessive food intake will only make animals eat too much, eat wrong, lead to illness, and even endanger their lives, so to protect animals, we must start with "not feeding". ”
Hearing the staff's answer, many citizens also suddenly realized that unscientific love will turn into harm, and good intentions cannot do bad things. "I wanted the children to interact with the animals up close, so I brought some vegetables and prepared to feed the alpacas. But after participating in the event, I realized that feeding would bring so much harm to the animals. In the future, we will also start from ourselves and bring correct guidance to the children. Ms. Li, who came to participate in the event, told reporters.
In order to support the activity of banning animal feeding, Wuhan Zhongbai Convenience Store Co., Ltd. brought 1,000 prizes to the event site for free, and gave them to the citizens who voluntarily gave up feeding.
In order to enrich the visitors' experience in the festival park, the event site also set up New Year's Day "fun" egg recognition, popular science bird painting and facial animal painting. I saw that the nature instructor took out four popular science cards in the shape of emus, ostriche, swan and penguin, explained their Xi in turn, and the host also took out four "specimen eggs" of different shapes to let the children "watch birds and know eggs". After passing all the way, many children got the opportunity to paint their faces. Under the skillful painting of the painter, the children have transformed into "red pandas", "little foxes" and "little elk...... , adding a lot of joy to the zoo at the festival.
Wuhan Zoo has a new start
Civilized garden tour starts with me
It is understood that after three years of upgrading, Wuhan Zoo has set off anew, divided into five theme exhibition areas with animal habitats, displaying rare animals from all over the world, emphasizing that animals are "masters", and tourists go to animal homes as guests. Therefore, it is necessary for tourists to change their concepts while visiting the park in a civilized manner.
"The ecosystem of nature is a complex food chain, and animals have their own rules for survival. Tourists' feeding behavior can not only make the animals sick, but also make the animals dependent, and even cause food fights, which can have adverse consequences. The park's cultural season is just the beginning of guiding citizens to refuse to feed through popular science activities. Caring for animals, civilized garden needs everyone to work together, a better environment and a happy life also need everyone to create together, only everyone to do civilized visits, refuse to feed, in order to do the true sense of love for animals, to achieve a harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The person in charge of the Park Management Office of the Wuhan Municipal Garden and Forestry Bureau said.
It is understood that in the 2023 Wuhan Park Cultural Season, more than 840 cultural activities will be carried out in the parks in the urban area throughout the year, covering our festivals, park dreamer competitions, park cultural and creative competitions, historical and cultural general courses, small docents and other aspects, so that citizens and tourists can increase their knowledge and broaden their horizons while getting close to the green ecology in the park. In the new year, the Wuhan Park Cultural Season will continue to dig deep into the "Park+" activity model to present a richer and more diverse cultural feast for the public.
Reporter: Yao Yi, Han Hua, Yang Ying, Guixiang Correspondent: Deng Liling
Editor: Lv Yanli