Suihua Forest Botanical Garden Fishes out Fish from the Lotus Pond to Feed Black Bears | CBCGDF Volunteers’ Report

Recently, volunteers from the Suihua Wetland Conservation Area of ​​the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) saw this scene in the Suihua Forest Botanical Garden: a warning sign “No swimming and No fishing” was erected next to the lotus pond in the garden. However, when walking on the wooden plank road outside the lotus pond, they found that there were several ground cages and gown nets in the pond, which made the volunteers very puzzled.

 


 After consulting the staff in the garden, the volunteers learned that there were 4 wild black bears raised in the garden, whose food demand was quite large. Although there was a subsidy fund to buy food for the black bears, it was far from enough. So the staff set up ground cages and gown nets in the lotus pond and fed the black bears with the fish caught.

 




Volunteers believe that there are many aquatic organisms living in the lotus pond, which is itself a micro-environmental ecosystem. However, if ground traps and nets are set up for a long time to capture fish, it will destroy the ecological balance in the pond and is not conducive to the sustainable and balanced development of the ecological environment here.

 

“Black bears are national second-level protected wild animals. We do need to protect them, but should this protection be at the cost of destroying another resource environment? This is worth our serious consideration,” said the volunteer.

 

Original Chinese Article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Cyy0qasCulRgDO9MTZkqIQ

Translator: Sara

Checked by: Daisy

Editor: Sara    

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