Who will guard the ＂smiling elf＂ in the water when the corpse is cut open and the prisoner is blind？
BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Sweet Dong Hanyang) A few days ago, a finless porpoise was floated in Dongting Lake, Yueyang, Hunan Province, with a 20-cm incision on its belly surface and two bricks falling from its tail with a rope. The staff decided that the finless porpoise was either killed and dumped.
In the spring of 2012, there was a shocking death of finless porpoises in Dongting Lake, and a total of 12 finless porpoises died.
The finless porpoise is known as the "natural smiling spirit". However, the data shows that as of July 2018, the number of finless porpoises is only about 1012, which is less than 60% of that of giant pandas. Now, another "spirit" has disappeared.
"70% of the world is covered by water, and our planet is a blue planet." Behind this well-known saying, more than 200,000 species of aquatic animals around the world continue to face survival crisis. Who is the chief culprit of the crisis?
Data map: finless porpoise.
Suspect number one: human
M.O.: Hunting, slaughtering or keeping in captivity
The 2009 documentary "Dolphin Bay" exposed the human who laid hands on dolphins to make money. It is reported that every dolphin caught can sell for up to $150,000.
However, the blood in Dolphin Bay "can’t wake people who pretend to sleep". In 2019, the Japanese government officially withdrew from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and restarted the commercial whaling activities suspended for 31 years.
In September, 2019, fishermen’s fishing boats in Taiji Town, Wakayama set sail again. The hunt will last until April 2020.
Statistics show that during this time of year, fishermen in Taiji Town will kill 2,000 to 3,000 dolphins. However, scientists have said that dolphin meat is not excellent in taste and nutritional value, and even its mercury content is still high, which is not good for health.
The hunter’s hand extends not only to the dolphins.
In 2014, three men and women stole 10,375 eggs from the Mexican turtle reserve, which has long been listed as an endangered animal.
In 2018, a "whale prison" appeared in the Russian Far East, where 90 beluga whales and 11 killer whales were imprisoned, of which 13 beluga whales were under one year old. Because of human imprisonment, killer whales that could have lived to be 100 years old in nature, most of them can’t live to be 30 years old in captivity.
At present, the Russian prosecutor has filed a criminal case against the relevant personnel for "illegal fishing of aquatic biological resources", and the whales in the "whale prison" will be released in three batches.
In October 2019, the staff of the protection agency "Dolphin Project" also discovered two dolphins that had been kept in captivity for 15 years in Bali and were badly abused. Because dolphins excrete a lot, the swimming pool in which they are kept is like a "toilet bowl". In order to decontaminate, the hotel adds a lot of chlorine to the water.
Among them, the dolphin named Deva was obviously insane, and another dolphin, Johnny, was blind.
Fortunately, with the help of the staff of the Dolphin Project, they will regain their freedom and return to the sea.
Suspect number two: plastic
Modus operandi: Good at "camouflage" and easy to be eaten by animals.
In Sardinia, Italy, the body of a pregnant sperm whale was washed ashore. In its belly, plastic garbage weighing 22 kilograms was found.
Marianne, a dugong cub from online celebrity, Thailand, died of illness. Officials say it has a small amount of plastic garbage in its stomach.
There are nearly 30 undigested plastic bags and other plastic wastes in the stomach of the stranded whale carcass in Norway.
Plastic fibers have also been found in the stomachs of crabs in Thames, England. They may have accidentally eaten balloons and sanitary napkins … …
Plastic seems to be the terrible "number one killer" in the water. According to statistics, 90% of marine garbage found on the global coastline is related to plastic products. Bottles, straws and food packaging have become "stains" floating in the ocean.
Because most animals can’t tell plastic garbage from food, every year, 34% of leatherback turtles die by mistake and swallow plastic bags as jellyfish. And some fish are easily attracted by the smell of dimethyl sulfide emitted by plastic soaked for a long time, and mistakenly regard it as prey.
The allen macarthur Foundation of the United Kingdom has predicted that by 2050, the weight of plastic waste in the ocean will catch up with the weight of marine life. What is even more frightening is that plastics cannot be completely degraded in seawater.
Suspect number three: noise
M.O.: Interfering with the echolocation system, causing a "suicide wave" of whales.
On December 8, 2014, six or seven sperm whales lay motionless on the shore of Paarala Sea Beach in York Peninsula, South Australia.
The locals said, "I think it’s too late to save them. At 8 o’clock in the morning, one of them was still wagging its tail, but now it’s not moving … …”
According to reports, these whales were disturbed by sonar and disoriented before being washed ashore.
However, this is not a case. Noise has become a major suspect in killing them.
In 2009, nine 12-meter-long sperm whales ran aground on the beach in Puglia, Italy, and five of them died, which may be caused by the noise of military exercises or the exploration of seabed deposits.
In July 2002, 66 pilot whales ran aground in Cape Cod Snow, Massachusetts, USA, for the same reason as sonar experiments.
In May 1996, 14 swordsmen whales ran aground on the Greek coast, which is believed to be related to a NATO exercise of the US military … …
Coled, deputy director of the French La Rochelle Marine Mammal Research Center, once pointed out that the acoustic waves emitted by the sonar and echo sounders of warships and the noise of underwater explosions will cause the echo positioning system of whales to be disordered, which is the main reason why whales collectively rushed to the beach.
Animals can’t speak, who will speak for them?
Who is chasing these natural "spirits" and creating one tragedy after another?
In order to protect human partners, many countries and regions have been acting.
China, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries and regions have successively issued plastic restrictions;
Canada has specially set up a coastal guard to protect the marine environment;
The United Nations has adopted relevant resolutions, proposing that the underwater noise generated by human activities … …
Data Map: A poster created by Christian Waters. On the poster, you can see that the turtle’s shell is hollowed out, its body is full of garbage, the sea lion is suffocated by a plastic garbage bag, and the sea fish suffocates after swallowing fine particles. Image source: WWF website.
Documentary director rob stewart has witnessed the bloody scene of illegal whaling, and has since stopped aiming at the dreamy underwater world. Many of the information he photographed on the impact of illegal shark fin trading, after being made public, directly promoted the process of the Costa Rican government’s introduction of relevant laws.
Christian Waters, an advertising designer, saw that there was a lot of garbage left on the beautiful beach, so he began to study the influence of marine garbage on animals, and finally created a public service advertisement, which was promoted by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Waters said that animals can’t speak, so humans must speak for them.
— — Protecting the blue planet is also a natural "elf" peace and harmony. Do you want to join us?
