Thanks to LIU Shu, CBCGDF Honorary Chairman and former Vice Presidengt of China Association for Science and Technology, for Presenting "10 Ecological Stories" to Support Building the CBCGDF Biodiversity Science Museum

Humanity does not always move towards the future in the right direction. Looking back at history, some lessons are cruel and shocking, and some awakenings and efforts make us feel fortunate today.

On September 2, 2024, LIU Shu, former Vice President of China Association for Science and Technology and Honorary Chairman of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), presented the valuable materials of "10 Ecological Stories in the 20th century” to CBCGDF Biodiversity Science Museum, hoping that these ecological stories jointly planned by her and Professor TIAN Yuzhao, former Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Survey Committee of Natural Resources of the State Planning Commission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the imprint of the times behind the stories, can be better understood by people today.

Just like the mercury in industrial wastewater contaminated fish and shrimp, and then spread to the human body, causing Minamata disease, more than 12,000 people suffered from the disease and died, but the contaminated sludge that was landfilled is still a hidden danger.

Just like the construction of the "Century Project" Karakum Canal, which expanded the irrigation area and developed a high-yield paradise for cotton and rice, but then the decline in the water level of the Aral Sea caused "paradise loss", and people once again tasted the bitter fruit of soil salinization and desertification;

Just like people once drove wolves out of the grassland without leaving any room to ensure that the sheep were not lost, but forgot their regulatory role in the ecosystem, and finally the grassland suffered heavy damage due to the uncontrolled reproduction of herbivores;

Just like a model worker who cut down trees in Daxinganling Mountains, after retirement, he reviewed the 36,000 trees he had cut down in his lifetime. He decided to replenish nature during his lifetime and led his family to plant more than 50,000 seedlings on the felled land;

Just like an engineer who worked on wild horses returning to the wild once said: "If wild horses could speak, they would definitely be able to tell 100 years of sorrow and sadness, and what we are doing now is just atonement and compensation."

Original article:https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nfV1Iu9prHq9OUvd2zhgZg

Translator: Daisy

Checked by Sara

Editor: Daisy

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