Recently, the team members of the Beijing Panther Wildlife Conservation Station carried out daily patrol work in the Juma River Basin in Fangshan And actually found two Chinese grass turtles, which is extremely rare in the Juma River Basin. So the team members went forward to check, only to find that it was illegally released by human breeding. The color of the tortoiseshell of the two grass turtles, as well as the nails, are not complete.
This Chinese grass turtle is easy to buy in the flower, bird, fish and insect market, they are the most widely distributed among the turtles in China, mainly living in the rivers and lakes south of the Yangtze River, so it is difficult to see them in the wild in the north. Chinese grass turtle is also known as golden line turtle, ink turtle, mud turtle, water turtle, mountain turtle, stinky green turtle, longevity turtle, Bagua turtle, turtle, golden turtle and so on, which is very popular in the market. However, the wild Chinese grass turtle is a national second-level protected animal, and everyone has seen it and do not catch it.
The Chinese grass turtle is very good-looking, oval in shape, with a smooth carapace, but with three longitudinal ridges, especially a slightly raised dorsal ridge. They also ink, which is the process of gradually darkening the color of the whole body. Depending on the growth rate, their inking rate is also different, and if it is fast, it can be completed in one year.
Like other turtles, the Chinese grass turtle is very resistant to hunger, even if you do not eat for a month, you will not starve to death. They are omnivorous animals and generally feed on small fish, shrimp, snails, mussels, etc. The Chinese grass turtle has a gentle personality, and has been a symbol of auspicious longevity since ancient times, not only the Chinese masses like to raise them, but also Japan, the Philippines, Europe and the United States and other countries like to raise them. But it's okay to keep them at home, we have a series of equipment to keep them safe, but there are always people who keep them for a while and then release them.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > Chinese grass turtles will freeze to death</h1>
Chinese grass turtles are temperate animals, when the water temperature drops below 15 ° C, they will run to the bottom of the water or in the soft soil to hibernate, generally from November to the end of April next year. If the temperature of hibernation is too low, they are likely to freeze to death. Although the place of this release is a beautiful scenery, but how cold it is in the north is known, it is indeed not suitable for the survival of Chinese grass turtles.
In fact, not only the Chinese grass turtle, in the Juma River Basin, the team members of the conservation station often find released Brazilian turtles and crocodile turtles. These turtles are difficult to survive the winter in the wild in the north, and they will also cause damage to the local ecological environment, and eventually the two Chinese grass turtles are taken back to the protection station for temporary adoption. I don't know why there are always people who like to release animals randomly, but the Chinese grass turtle released this time is still good.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > dangerous release event</h1>
Just a few days ago, in Jingniang Lake, Wu'an City, Handan, Hebei Province, some enthusiastic people saw a car owner with a black Tianjin license plate release two one-meter-long crocodiles into the reservoir. This is a crocodile, or released in the scenic area, although it is now a little smaller, but how to bite and hurt when it grows up, you must know that crocodiles are very dangerous.
In addition to crocodiles, there are also people who release snakes, and near the Meiling Wujing Reservoir in Nanchang, hundreds of snakes have been released. There were about a dozen people who were released, driving six or seven cars, carrying bags full of snakes, and without saying a word, they opened the bags and poured the snakes outside. Fortunately, these are basically non-venomous cauliflower snakes, but the consequences are unimaginable, and the funny thing is that most of these snakes are dead.
Some people directly released poisonous snakes, and some people in Qingyuan Yingde City released snakes, and also posted photos on the Internet, claiming to be released to pray for blessings. However, netizens pointed out that these released snakes actually have five-step snakes and cobras and other highly venomous snakes. Walnuts are really not clear what they think, what is not good to release, but to release poisonous snakes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > the harm caused by blind release</h1>
Blind release may cause a devastating blow to native species and disrupt the local ecological balance, such as the scavengers who are now flooding in China, their survivability is very strong, they are found in many rivers, they rob the resources of native fish, and they also prey on other animals, which has a very bad impact on the ecology.
And if some dangerous species are released, it may hurt people. In The Changping district of Beijing, some people have been bitten by poisonous snakes, and these poisonous snakes are not available in the local area, which should be the snakes that someone came to release a few days ago. And the released animal for various reasons, in fact, it is difficult to survive, you let it feel that it is to give it freedom, in fact, to send it to die.
As more and more people are released, some people have found business opportunities and sold these released species online. Among them, there are more than ten kinds of highly venomous snakes such as Zhoushan cobra, bamboo leaf green, puchun viper, silver ring snake, pit viper, etc., which are marked as pets. It can even be delivered to your door and delivered to you on the day you want to release. What is amazing is that there are also sellers who mix into the release of the masses, participate in and encourage everyone to release, and then sell the released animals themselves, earning tens of thousands of dollars a month.
According to Article 38 of China's Wildlife Protection Law, any organization or individual who releases wild animals into the wild environment shall select local species suitable for wild survival in the release site, and must not interfere with the normal life and production of local residents to avoid causing harm to the ecosystem. Where wild animals are released arbitrarily, causing personal or property damage to others or endangering the ecosystem, legal responsibility is borne in accordance with law.
Moreover, the "Beijing Municipal Regulations on the Protection and Management of Wild Animals" makes it clear that units and individuals may participate in the wild animal release, breeding and stocking activities organized by the wildlife protection and management departments in conjunction with relevant social groups, and it is forbidden to carry out release activities without authorization, otherwise they will be fined between 2,000 and 10,000 yuan. So let's not just release it well.