I Have a Safari Park

Then Researcher Gu told Fang Ye!

"The survey on the distribution of green peacocks that I did before, they are only distributed in the three river basins of the Red River, Lancang River and Nujiang River. The Lancang River may have the largest population of green peacocks, but the hydropower station has made a mess, and now the Lancang River and Nujiang River There is only a little left, and the other side of the Red River is their largest habitat.

I've never heard of the hydropower station you mentioned, but Xinping's words should be built on the section of the Red River.

The biggest crisis for the green peacock now is the loss of habitat!

Many people have a misunderstanding that green peacocks live in dense tropical rainforests, but it is not. The place where they live is tropical monsoon rainforest, with sparse and open dry season deciduous vegetation, a bit like the environment of the African savanna.

Why do green peacocks like to live in this habitat? It may be this dense and humid tropical rainforest. Its thick feathers are prone to parasites, and it is uncomfortable to stay there. This open habitat is conducive to the activities of green peacocks.

The most important thing is that the tropical monsoon rain forest has a very developed herb layer. The plants are of the family Poaceae. Ungulate animals and green peacocks like to eat this. The plants growing in the tropical rain forest are Araceae shade-tolerant but poisonous plants. Ah, many animals at least green peacocks can't eat.

Many of the monsoon forests over there have been cut down, so what are they doing, mainly commercial crops such as mangoes and macadamia nuts. Therefore, their current habitat environment has retreated very much. In fact, deforestation is not a problem. River valleys are the main areas where tropical monsoon forests are distributed. Once the hydropower station is built and the water rises, the green peacock's habitat will be finished.

In the past, green peacocks were almost everywhere in Yunnan. One of my predecessors, who studied birds, was doing research there in the 1960s. Every day, I could hear the call of green peacocks and see the silhouette of green peacocks. Now Of course, this scene is impossible to see. "

Fang Ye was shocked: "Ah, this is such a pity."

Researcher Gu sighed and said: "Who said no, there used to be a large area of ​​tropical monsoon forest in Pu'er. Once I went to investigate, a forest ranger told me that at the end of the last century, I took a boat down the Lancang River all the way down, and in the morning You can see peacocks opening their screens by the river, elephants bathing in the river, bison and egrets drinking water by the river, and hornbills flying overhead.

Such a beautiful place, it would be great to build a national park, not worse than those foreign national parks. But after the hydropower station was built, the entire forest has now sunk to more than 100 meters of water. It was so flooded that not even a single image was left, and I didn't even know how it disappeared.

The scenery is really special, very special and beautiful. Especially in the dry season, the water is very clear. We tested it and found that the water quality is a class of water, so you can drink it directly. Now you can find the main streams of several rivers in China, and its water quality is still good. Reach a class of water? You can't find a few.

In addition to the beautiful scenery, the biodiversity here is also very rich. Wild boars, leopard cats, red deer, and there are spotted turtles in the lower reaches of the Red River. There is their spawning ground. In recent years, a hydropower station has been built in the lower reaches. What is the status of the turtle.

There are many beautiful birds, such as black-necked long-tailed pheasant, brown fishing owl, white-bellied golden pheasant, Chinese partridge, and bee-eater. In theory, there are five kinds of bee-eaters. Especially in May, a large number of this green-throated bee Tigers and blue-throated bee-eaters build their nests on the banks of the Shiyang River and the Luju River.

I remember that in order to protect bee-eaters from nesting and breeding, Hainan has established a protected area. Once the hydropower station is built, it will be gone anyway.

Plants are also very rich. The geographical environment of this place is very unique. The dry-hot valley is not only found in Africa, but also in China. In the Honghe River in Yunnan, the vegetation is also related. It may be that there is a piece in the process of drifting the Indian plate. Drift to this point, this is very complicated to expand. "

Fang Ye couldn't help but ask: "With such a good natural resource, it stands to reason that the EIA cannot pass when the hydropower station is built?"

Researcher Gu said with a wry smile: "Who knows. Anyway, too many places are so silently submerged, there is no way to do it. No matter how good the foundation is, you can't help creating it!"

Fang Ye thanked: "Mr. Gu, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me solve my doubts today, and it's so detailed! The two teachers I asked before didn't seem to want to talk about this topic."

Researcher Gu said: "Mr. Gu is too flattering. I am relatively young and have less worries! Because I am in the circle, the more senior I am, the more inconvenient it is to say some things. There may be various background forces behind me. It will offend people. And some people have to rely on this EIA to eat, you know. Oh, in fact, these words have been held back for a long time, and I will tell you privately. "

"Okay, I'll ask you again if I have anything."

After Fang Ye hung up the phone, he opened the website and frowned to find the EIA report of the Gaba River Hydropower Station.

It seems that except for some confidential projects, the EIA report must be publicized!

He is not very familiar with where to find the EIA report. During the search, he also saw some news about the large-scale "water abandonment" of hydropower stations.

Roughly speaking, the installed capacity of hydropower has exploded and concentrated in recent years. The power generation capacity of the grid far exceeds the total electricity demand of the market. There is a serious surplus of hydropower, and a large amount of hydropower has been wasted.

Looking at the report, Fang Ye was speechless for a while, and continued to find the EIA report!

After a while, I finally found it on the publicity website. The full text has a total of 599 pages. I quickly turned the pages and found the part related to the green peacock: "The project occupied a total of 1800.03hm (10,000 square meters) of submerged forest land and the submerged and occupied land. Vegetation within the range will be destroyed, resulting in a certain amount of plant biomass loss, the integrity of terrestrial ecosystems in local areas may be affected to a certain extent, and wild animals that originally inhabited here will be forced to migrate.

...The differences in the habitats submerged at different water levels are not obvious, and neither will change the flora and fauna of the region, nor cause species extinction, but only have a certain impact on the number of species. "

Fang Ye had nothing to say: "Is this an EIA? What does it mean to be forced to relocate? Translation translation, what does it mean that it will not lead to species extinction, but will only cause a certain impact?"

When I called Researcher Gu just now, they made it clear that the habitat of the green peacock is the monsoon rainforest in the valley, and it cannot survive in other places. The population condition of the original three river basins and now the Red River basin is slightly better. .

Forced to relocate, the habitat is either cut down and planted with commercial crops, or flooded by hydropower stations, and there is such a small area left, how to relocate?