Therefore, I sincerely hope that those investors and government personnel who are ready to invest or set up a new zoo and botanical garden or aquarium will give up their ideas and invest in big data, artificial intelligence, ecological civilization, safety, and health and other fields. These industries have great opportunities for development. In the era of ecological civilization, the way people learn and enjoy is often digital, such as VR and AR.

For the projects that have been invested and operated in the park, we hope to stop the further introduction of wild animals, add some digital multimedia equipment, pictures, and text content, and carry out network publicity and online viewing. Beijing Zoo has launched a live webcast with a large number of viewers and achieved good results. At present, zoos should make such a transformation, stop buying wild animals, especially endangered species, and turn to the new era of ecological civilization. For example, publishing books, pictures, photo albums, audio, and video; conducting scientific research, popularizing science and education to the public, rather than focusing on operating profits. Now, unlike in the past, the daily operation of zoos also needs to undergo major changes, such as stopping animal performance activities such as circus and increasing animal welfare. Make the living environment of animals closer to nature. Most zoos are public welfare, and a few are commercialized. They all need to transform into ecological civilization, otherwise, they will receive more people's protests.

Finally, with regard to the invitation mentioned earlier in the article for the opening ceremony of the new zoo and botanical garden, Dr. Zhou said that he would still go and attend the activity. "If you don't go, you lose a chance to share your ideas with everyone." Taking the zoo as an example, its configuration is very high-end, and it introduces wild animals and endangered species from all continents. Dr. Zhou suggested that the projects that have not been introduced into the park should be stopped as soon as possible and that video equipment and audio equipment should be improved to provide electronic media for everyone to watch. At the same time, for example, if African animals are transported to China, the change of their living environment will inevitably lead to their discomfort and maladjustment. Especially those regional species, such as koala in Australia. Dr. Zhou is firmly opposed to shipping it to China. There used to be some large-scale capital that spent a lot of money to transport the koala to China, and most of the results ended in failure.

The reason is that the change of living environment makes it difficult for these wild animals to survive, and even airlifted food cannot help them adapt to the new living environment. This tells us that human beings do not have enough conditions and power to treat nature and the ecological environment in this way. We will eventually move from industrial civilization to ecological civilization, which means that the relationship between human beings and animals will change fundamentally.

It is hoped that Dr. Zhou Jinfeng’s talk will inspire relevant practitioners to seriously consider the relationship between humans and animals under the current ecological civilization in the face of new investment projects and investment behaviors.

Original Chinese article:

http://www.cbcgdf.org/NewsShow/4854/12476.html

By / Xue Tongtong Modified / Maggie