I believe that everyone knows that the Australian hare has been flooded, the human rabbit war has been raging for decades, and the number of rabbits is as high as tens of billions, but you certainly can't imagine that the wild rabbit flood will actually happen in our country. After all, the rabbit is so cute, many people like to eat, how can not turn it flood ah. According to statistics, Sichuan sells nearly 300 million rabbits every year, an average of 9 per second, how can this way of eating be flooded.
But in Inner Mongolia, the rabbit is indeed a headache animal. Some farmers said that the local hares have long been flooded, and they go to the field every night to steal potatoes, and due to the large number, they can waste hundreds of pounds of potatoes in one night. So sure someone said, why not catch them? After all, exchanging potatoes for rabbits is also earned. This is because people are protecting animals.
Yes, the rabbits flooded in Inner Mongolia are grass rabbits, while wild grass rabbits are protected animals in China and are forbidden to be caught, so farmers can only dig potatoes overnight to reduce losses, and dare not fight them. This is the same as the current wild boar flood, destroying crops everywhere and often hurting people, but because it is to protect animals, many farmers have words of suffering.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > what is a grass rabbit</h1>
Grass rabbit is a common rabbit in China, they are larger, body length 36-54 cm, weight average of 2 kg, the back of the body is yellow-brown to russet brown, the ventral surface is white. We often say that the cunning rabbit three caves, but the grass rabbit is different, they live all their lives on the ground, do not dig holes, but are very good at running, this rabbit will not drill into the hole when encountering danger, but rely on the long legs to start running hard, sometimes even directly hit the obstacle and crashed into the dead, so the rabbit who crashed into the tree in the rabbit is said to be the grass rabbit.
This ability to run is an innate talent, because it does not dig holes, so in order to allow the cubs to have a higher survival rate, the newborn grass rabbit cubs can run away in a short time. And this kind of adult grass rabbit can also pass the eagle, we all know that the eagle is the natural enemy of the rabbit, but sometimes, the grass rabbit can even kill the eagle, taking advantage of the moment when the eagle is about to catch it, with a strong hind leg to kick the eagle, sometimes the eagle is directly kicked to death, of course, this situation is still relatively rare.
Grass rabbits mainly inhabit low-lying areas, meadows, fields, woods, grasses, shrublands and forest margins on both sides of ditches near farmland. They feed mainly on corn, legumes, seeds, vegetables, weeds, bark, young branches and saplings, so their impact on crops is particularly large. In addition, this rabbit likes to be active at night, which is simply invincible.
And their reproductive ability is also very strong, can give birth to three to four litters a year, and once more than once, in addition to various causes of death, a female rabbit can breed an average of 6-9 young rabbits a year. In the 1950s, grass rabbits were overgrown, and in many rural areas, they were flooded, so many people ran to the wild to beat rabbits to eat.
However, after decades of hunting, the number of grass rabbits began to decline sharply, coupled with large-scale land development, grass rabbits habitat area is getting smaller and smaller, they have naturally become protected animals, on August 1, 2000, China's State Forestry Administration included grass rabbits in the "National Protection of Beneficial or Important Economic and Scientific Research Value of Terrestrial Wild Animals List", becoming China's "three haves" protected animals.
According to China's laws, as a national "three haves" protected animal, it is illegal to catch 1 animal without permission, catch more than 20 suspected crimes, catch more than 50 is a major criminal case, and more than 100 are extraordinarily large criminal cases, so it is illegal to hunt wild grass rabbits now.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > penalty for catching hares</h1>
During the National Day holiday, the police of the Huangji Police Station of the Zhaocheng County Public Security Bureau successfully arrested a suspect in illegal hunting during their night patrol, seized motocross bikes, mine lamps, small generators, and seized 11 hares. The man carries a device to make noise for the hare to appear, then uses a strong light to illuminate the hare to make it panic and flee, and releases the hounds to hunt them. The 11 rabbits were identified as grass rabbits of the genus Rabbit in the family Rabbitidae. The man is currently in criminal detention and the case is under further consideration.
Zeng Mou of Le'an County found a rabbit while digging spring shoots, so he took two iron clips the next day and placed them in the place where the rabbits might pass. On the morning of the third day, a hare was caught, so Zeng took the hare home and slaughtered it and put it in the freezer, which was later seized by the relevant departments. The court imposed a fine of RMB5,000 on Zeng.
In fact, not only the grass rabbit, the gray-tailed rabbit, the South China rabbit, the Northeast rabbit, the Yunnan rabbit, the Northeast black rabbit are all protected animals, in the list of three protected animals, there are a total of 5 classes, 46 orders, 177 families, 1591 species and all species of insects in 120 genera and 110 other species, are protected animals. Therefore, farmers have no way to take the wild grass rabbits that harm crops, but in general, in view of this situation of protecting animals and harming crops, the local government should have a certain compensation mechanism, and the specific amount of compensation should be known to the relevant local departments. If not, then you can only consider yourself unlucky.