Gun environmentalists

7 years ago, I went to visit a nature reserve deep in the Qinling Mountains. Areas where there is a small village of 100 people. Intermittent surveys, chat in the village physician, the doctor asked: "Can Give us some advice, how to deal with these scourges Aries?" Aries was takin, the national-level protected animals. Did not expect such a rare and beautiful herbivores been labeled as a pest. Originally, this village has undergone several injuries from the accident takin. Also had a takin people rushed into the kitchen, with sharp corners to tear most of a grandmother's chest. After a few years, no return I have been doing research in this village. She Statistics found that 50% to nearly 80% of the farmers crops have been damaged by the local wild boar. Protect wildlife and natural resources is contributing to society as a whole, but few attention has been paid, and wildlife and nature's most intimate contact with those people how to live.

In fact, remote areas not solve the livelihood of the poor, can not really protect wildlife and natural resources. Last year, researchers reported that in southern Africa, Zimbabwean rural autonomy will join local resource management projects in public areas through sport hunting, in the year 2000 was more than 1.5 million U.S. dollars a year income. Revenue fell to the local poor communities of these people's pockets, for the local community played an important wildlife conservation guidance and support. The researchers said that effective economic incentive mechanism to avoid some harmful species native to the protection of other land use, and sport hunting is such an incentive-driven conservation strategies. IBM ThinkPad T61 battery of this strategy to achieve the protection, utilization and constraints to rely on non-trade failed.

I have one in Qinghai Plateau study. Herdsmen here is not as offensive as other pastoral nomads pasture and livestock compete for wildlife. My guide is also proud to say: "In the past I often bring his house hunter horse." This zone is also a well-known international hunting ground, after Europe and the United States when hunters hunting here a lot. My guide was also a favorite of international hunters hunting guide. Rely on long patrolled the mountains each block him well aware of each road, track and observe the wildlife experience, or a good friend of the local herdsmen.

In this zone, I clearly see that the theory of conservation biology community residents referred to the protection of wild animals for maximum support. For the cost of this support is from the hundreds of thousands of wild animals each year in the hunt for 12 groups of elderly individuals. As a conservation biologist, I can not help but admire, and it was an environment of "a good deal," Oh.

Conservation Biology persons, and even environmentalists, the most important is to have global view. In this way, he can see the short-term economic benefits covered under the environmental pollution and IBM ThinkPad R50 battery. At the same time, he should also see the local economic losses, the overall environmental benefits obtained. U.S. conservation biology who is also a Deer Hunter's Carl once told me: "I am concerned that wildlife populations and their living environment, not to save a single individual." In his view, whether it is entertainment hunt, or hunting trophies are entire populations of wild animals and their living environment beneficial to sustainable use patterns.

When the planet have more than 30,000 kinds of plants and animals survive, which may or are subjected to human use and trading of endangered or facing extinction, sustainability is the current human use must comply with the choice. Of course, sports hunting is not the only way these choices, even in some areas are not the best way, but it has been proved, after all, is an effective way.

Hope that the reasonable and lawful, fair distribution of sports hunting in China can also become a natural means of protection. Hopefully, our society can rationally accept and actively monitor these "gun of the environmentalists."