"Big lizard! Big lizard! ”
A cadre of a village in Longling County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, was on the way to patrol when he suddenly issued a "big lizard!" Big lizard! "Screams. It turned out that after hearing the sound of falling rocks, the village cadres and 3 people looked back and saw a large lizard, and in a hurry, he quickly took out his mobile phone to record the lizard's activities.
According to Wang Jishan, a doctor of the Kunming Survey and Design Institute of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, this lizard belongs to China's first-class key protected wild animal "round-nosed monitor lizard", also known as "Ze monitor lizard" and "water monitor lizard", "five-clawed golden dragon" and so on.
There are not many animals that can enter the list of first-class protected animals in China, and all of them are like thunderous ears, such as: China's national treasure giant panda, South China tiger that has not been found in the wild for many years, plateau spirit snow leopard and so on. They all have one thing in common, that is, wild populations are very rare and very important to the local ecology. So how can the round-nosed monitor lizard He De be selected as a national first-class protected animal?
You might say that round-nosed monitor lizards are very rare in number, but is that really the case?
In Lumpini Park in Bangkok, Thailand, visitors are often startled by the round-nosed monitor lizards that frequent the park, causing complaints. In order to protect the safety of tourists, the local government decided to catch a part of the round-nosed monitor lizard, the result is not known, casually caught more than 40, just in one morning to catch 10, the largest of which reached 50 kilograms, requiring 4 adults to subdue. Of course, these are only a few parts of the park, and there are many round-nosed monitor lizards living here.
In fact, the local government catches some round-nosed monitor lizards every once in a while, but because they are egg species, they reproduce so quickly that they will flood in a short time.
Not only in Thailand, but also in countries such as Malaysia, Singapore or Indonesia, the figure of the round-nosed monitor lizard can often be seen, and even in places with intensive human activities, the figure of the round-nosed monitor lizard can be seen.
In recent years, they have been transported as pets to Europe and the United States, and individuals who have escaped into the wild have quickly established their own wild populations, and there is a hidden trend in the United States.
Precisely because round-nosed monitor lizards are so common that they are not at all in danger of extinction, the IUCN Red List lists them as "not endangered", and are not at all on the same level as endangered giant pandas, South China tigers and snow leopards.
However, unexpectedly, since 1989, the round-nosed monitor lizard has been listed as a national first-class protected animal in China, and it is also listed as a critically endangered species in the Red Book of Endangered Animals of China.
So the question is, why do the round-nosed monitor lizards that are flooded abroad and even need to be cleaned up regularly enjoy the strength of national protection animals in China? You should know that this is a protection level with the national treasure giant panda, and even the red pandas, which are more endangered than the giant pandas, are not eligible to enjoy the treatment of "national one".
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In fact, the reason why China wants to protect the round-nosed monitor lizard is because the round-nosed monitor lizard is very rare in China, and the round-nosed monitor lizard has not been seen in the local area for about 10 years.
Round-nosed monitor lizards are part of the local ecological chain, feeding on fish, frogs, rats, birds and small mammals, and also clean up the local carrion, acting as scavengers and reducing the occurrence of epidemic diseases; in turn, they are prey for the top local predators.
Due to the climate and other factors, the round-nosed monitor lizard in China is very rare in number, and on the other hand, their leather is very precious, and some places will put it into medicine, which has a high economic value, so that in the past, they were often captured by people at will, making China's originally rare round-nosed monitor lizards reach a critical level.
In order to protect the round-nosed monitor lizard and also to protect the local ecological chain, China has listed the round-nosed monitor lizard as a national first-level protected animal. The reappearance of the round-nosed monitor lizard in Yunnan shows that China's protective effect on it has initially emerged, and perhaps in the future, they will be as common in China as they are in Thailand.
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In fact, it is not good to have more or less round-nosed monitor lizards.
Under normal circumstances, round-nosed monitor lizards have many natural predators, such as tigers and pythons, and small animals that steal eggs. But in countries such as Thailand and Singapore, the decline in the number of large carnivores has led to a decrease in the number of natural enemies of the round-nosed monitor lizard. After the round-nosed monitor lizards have no natural enemies, their egg hatching success rate will become higher, and the survival rate of young will also increase significantly, so that the local round-nosed monitor lizard population is out of control, achieving the effect of flooding. Nowadays, the number of round-nosed monitor lizards abroad has also declined, although there are still many, but because its leather is so precious that they are also illegally hunted, some countries also list it as a protected animal.
The small number of round-nosed monitor lizards and the difficulty of maintaining the operation of the local ecological chain, their ecological niches may be vacated, thus affecting the operation of other ecological niches like dominoes.
In order to maintain the healthy operation of the local ecological chain, in areas where the number of round-nosed monitor lizards is out of control, people need to clean up regularly; in areas where the number is scarce, people need to vigorously protect them, and China is vigorously protecting the round-nosed monitor lizards, and even listed them as "national-level protected animals" without danger.
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