Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 332: It's better to exchange tigers for tigers
"Not only that, but this litter of little otters is also very naughty."

"How to say?"

"Come, take a look and you will know."

Lao Gao took him to the water's edge. The mother otter failed to scare her children and drove them into the water.

But obviously, the mother's education failed. The three little otters nimbly avoided their mother and staggered over to touch Chen Ying.

She bumped into his shoe, then fell to the ground, looking at him eagerly.

Lao Gao skillfully picked one up and started playing with it.

The remaining two were picked up by Chen Ying.

The mother otter was so angry that she screamed and jumped, but what could she do? She couldn't even hit the two-legged beast's knees when she jumped, so she could only get angry for a while, turn around and jump into the water to get out of sight and out of mind.

The vegetation environment in low-altitude areas is very different from that in high-altitude areas.

It is still winter and the temperature is still very low, but Jiamugou still has evergreen vegetation all year round.

Push aside the water plants beside the stream to reveal the discarded eggshells inside.

"What is this, birds hatching eggs so early?"

"What the hell." Lao Gao cursed with a smile, "These bird eggs were ruined by these otters."

If other animals were destroying bird eggs, even if Lao Gao didn't interfere, he would have scolded them severely, and he might even secretly find a way to get rid of the egg thief.

But if the egg thieves are replaced by three cute creatures, it will be a bit difficult to catch them.

To be honest, these three little guys don't steal eggs just because they see them. They know how to take turns and only steal one or two eggs from each nest. They also change the place to steal.

In fact, then again, even if there were no egg thieves, there would still be a lot of bird eggs that cannot be hatched every year.

In addition to being eaten by animals, the number of bird eggs lost during nesting battles among birds is also not small.

After putting the three little guys back, Lao Gao explained to Chen Ying.

"The barrier lake you visited before had another earthquake, which changed the original river course. In addition, this stream was originally fed by melted ice and snow from the mountains, so the water has hardly been cut off since winter."

The stream in the ditch does not always maintain such a large amount of water. In the past few years when the vegetation was poor, the stream was almost dry from autumn to summer.

The impounded lake upstream has several water outlets. The outlet on their side is higher, so the water in the lake is insufficient and the stream is also dry.

Now the exit has collapsed a little bit again, so the water has been redirected this way.

"It seems that there has been too much geological activity in the past two years."

"We can't help it. We have no right to interfere in Ball Mom's affairs." Lao Gao shrugged. "But the higher-ups have sent people to check it out, and the geological expedition team has also been there. The situation is not bad. There have been many small changes, but almost no major changes."

Because this area is located on a fault zone, and is affected by the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau fold belt, if there is really no movement at all, everyone will be really anxious.

We walked back slowly and chatted about what happened in Jiamugou in recent months.

A mature conservation area doesn't require much from them except ongoing maintenance.

"By the way, the bureau has had people set up a grid to detect the animals. The animal carrying capacity in Jiamugou is a little high, but it's still within the range. The bureau wants to try to implement the release plan here."

"Release? Release what?"

"tiger."

"Aren't there tigers here? Did the tigress in the north leave?"

"That's not the case, but apart from the north where there are definitely some, the northwest side is still the same as you saw last time. No signs of tigers have been found since then."

Chen Ying thought about it and roughly understood what the leaders meant.

"They want to lure the tigers in the north to the south by releasing them into the wild? Why not just release them in the south?"

"How do you know they haven't tried it?" Lao Gao picked up a piece of dogtail grass and held it in his mouth. "The several nature reserves in the south have been keeping an eye on us. The wild release plan was proposed by them. They want to use the tigress to improve the genes of captive tigers."

No matter how well it is kept in captivity, it will never be as wild as the king of the jungle.

It is basically impossible to survive alone in the wild.

They couldn't really ask the tiger to learn from the cat. Even if they could, where could they find a cat that could teach the tiger?

But it is different in Jiamugou. It has been confirmed that there are wild tigers here, and captive tigers can learn from them.

Of course, the best way is to train them from a young age. It would be even better if wild tigers could bring up captive tiger cubs.

But this can only be dreamed of.

But Chen Ying was really moved.

"Lao Gao, what do you say? We can take the two cubs back home and raise them ourselves?"

The two tiger cubs were in his name, but they were raised in the zoo on loan. He had set up a research project, so he had a legitimate reason to pick up the two tigers.

"Those two little white tigers are Bengal tigers. It would be best if we could exchange them for local tiger cubs."

Chen Ying patted her cheek gently and said, "I was wrong. I should have contacted those zoos and made an exchange."

"It's actually easy. There are institutions in China that specialize in breeding white tigers. You can contact them and see if you can do an exchange. Even if that doesn't work, you can borrow one and try."

There are many domestic institutions that conduct research on South China tigers, but the current results are only to expand the captive population.

No unit dares to take the next step easily for the time being.

Releasing it into the wild does not mean just putting it back into the wild.

The incident involving the panda Xiang Xiang is an untouchable pain in the hearts of all conscientious people in the national treasure circle.

Moreover, there are still considerable populations of giant pandas in the wild, but the South China tiger, if it’s gone, it’s gone for good.

Although there are now wild South China tigers, no one knows how many there are.

As we were chatting, we returned to the first aid station.

Lao Gao’s junior classmates have hung all the artificial bird houses under the eaves to let them dry out the moisture. When it gets warmer, they can replace the broken ones or build a home for the birds in places that need it.

"We may go a little far this time, planning to include the Wenquangou side and the other side of Laoxionggou."

Now that an observatory and a bird rescue station have been set up here, we must definitely do more.

Lao Gao has completed his research project on the three species of pheasants. His next step is to consider whether to continue digging deeper or to change the topic.

I feel so comfortable living here in Jiamugou that I don’t even want to move.

There are hundreds of species of birds in Jiamugou, and there are many topics on birds, but the topic he wants to work on is not the kind that can be easily written into a paper.

"This year, we have implemented a grid system. I plan not to apply for a research project for the time being. I want to take people to this area for an investigation."

The area that Lao Gao is talking about is located between the deep mountains and the cultivated areas. It belongs to the forest edge zone, secondary forest and economic forest area.

He wanted to go over and see how the ecology around the forest had recovered over the years of returning farmland to forest.

Chen Ying didn't know much about their birds and botany, but after working in animal protection for so many years, he had some understanding of the relationship between birds and botany, as they all prosper together and suffer together.

"Okay, when are you going to go over there?"

Lao Gao told him this because he actually wanted him to finish the matter in Heyuan as soon as possible and stay in Jiamugou with peace of mind.

"By the end of April, or around September this year, we can complete the first phase of preparations in five months."

"You kid are planning to come up with a big project." Chen Ying lightly hit Lao Gao's shoulder.

"That's right. Ali is now the head of a station, and the next step is to be the head of a branch. Although you don't hold a position in the system, judging from what Professor Bai said, once you get a senior professional title, you will probably be given a position in the school. If I don't work hard, I will become Xiao Gao."

In the evening, Xia Sen came back and his expression was not very good.

Chen Ying glanced at him, pulled him aside and asked what happened.

"No, Brother Ying, I'm just tired. I've been with the production crew all day today, I'm so tired, I'm going to rest first."

At this time, Lao Gao's junior schoolmate came over.

This girl is just in her first year of graduate school and is still a socialite.

"Brother Ying, Senior, Brother Sen must have been ridiculed."

The girl handed the phone to Chen Ying. It was the chat group interface. There were a lot of messages on the screen, but they were all discussing one thing.

It seems that the program crew encountered Munduner and his three cubs who were taking them out for a walk during the filming process.

Because the three kids were very familiar with Xia Sen, they didn't rush to hide when they met him.

Just like that, one of the guests on the show questioned his unprofessionalism.

"He directly posted a short essay on his personal social media, saying that since Sen Ge is in this line of work, he should know that he can't get too close to wild animals and can't let them trust humans too much. So he thinks that either Sen Ge deliberately approached the giant pandas to highlight his own importance, or the superiors didn't pay enough attention to the details."

Chen Ying's expression darkened. "Okay, if that's the case, then there's no need to take care of them."

Don’t they want to see the majesty of wild animals? Then let them see it for themselves.

"Lao Gao, thank you for going to the wildlife park with Xia Sen tomorrow to finalize the matter of the little white tiger. Also, see if you can help coordinate one or two South China tiger cubs to come over."

"No problem. It just so happens that a friend of mine works there. I'll go contact him first."

Chen Ying called the publicity department at the center and told them directly that Xia Sen had work tomorrow and could not accompany the program crew for the time being, so he asked them to make other arrangements.

The man wanted Chen Ying to take over, but Chen Ying just laughed and asked him to report to his leader first.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Ying went upstairs to find Xia Sen.

Without saying anything to comfort him, he just told him to pack up and go on a business trip with Lao Gao tomorrow.

"You have already decided to specialize in the field of animal breeding, so you need to get more exposure to related matters. I have discussed something with Lao Gao, so you two can chat on the way to see if there is any work that needs to be done ahead."

Xia Sen was originally in a low mood, with slightly red eyes, but after receiving the work arranged by Chen Ying, he immediately got into the state.

I recorded the things I needed to do in my work notes, and also made a list of my daily work. I planned to ask my junior brother Lao Gao to help me for two days.

"Why are you calling others? I'm still here." He took the schedule from Xia Sen, took a photo and gave it back to him.

"Put this on the whiteboard in the mixing room and mark it in the work log."

Xia Sen's work is usually very trivial, and he is worried that something will be missed if there is no detailed handover.

(End of this chapter)