Dr. Zhou Jinfeng said that the festive days could not make him happy. He showed his ambitions to build the first-level academia in the world when he was talking with the leadership from CAST(China Association for Science and Technology), one of the top associates in China.
Dr. Zhou talked about three issues in his speech for the Chinese New Year of Tiger. Below are the selected speech text from Dr. Zhou.
CUCCI has made a major mistake that it uses live tigers to produce the AD.
We hope that wild animals can grow freely in the wild. The commercial demand of such advertisements for wild animals is one of the biggest reasons for the extinction of wild animals.
At the same time, this kind of luxury advertisement, which stimulates the concept of "exotic pets", shows off wealth, or for one reason or another, from petting small bugs to big tigers, all have the most serious impact on our survival system. Destruction, such guidance is absolutely intolerable. However, after we issued the criticism, we were shocked that despite the support of other organizations, there were also environmental protection organizations who endorsed them. And after many days to this day, we have not received an apology from Gucci, we feel depressed and difficult, but we will never stop.
The second thing: about the Heishan Gorge, "every tree and grass" counts. "green mountains and lucid waters" are destroyed by the Heishanxia Gorge Project.
The second was the discussion we had on the Heishan Gorge. Some experts said at the meeting, "We should not judge whether we should do this by one plant or one tree. We should take a broader view of the issue." Black Mountain gorge is not a tree and grass! Black mountain gorge is not "clear water castle peak", it is one of the most important clear water castle peak that we have never had. Who can say that heishan Gorge is not one of the green mountains? But after the huge water conservancy project, is it still "green mountains and clear waters"? There is no doubt that it has changed radically. Why is that? Because of the water conservancy project, the velocity of water, the light transmittance of water and the nutrient status of water will undergo fundamental changes, and these changes are fundamental changes to the whole ecosystem. It is no longer natural, it becomes an industrial product, and it is not the original nature and green mountains.
Although you can still see the water, although you can take instruments to test the water, according to industrial standards can reach several levels, but these are not meaningful, it has changed from green water, from natural, into an industrial product.
We are not short of industrial products today, we are short of our green mountains and clear waters, we must protect them, but there may be a long way to go.
Others say we're out of our depth. We had the first seminar, we are going to have the second seminar, there are water conservancy projects waiting to be dismantled at the source of the Yellow River. The authorities have formally requested that it be removed. But there they are tearing down water projects and there they are building new ones... There are local initiatives. Why? Because of engineering, because of GDP, because of industrial civilization, because of capital capital -- these are huge systems and forces that still affect us like the weather today.
[The third thing: the trial of environmental protection volunteer Li Genshan]
In the past two days, the case of Li Genshan, an environmental protection volunteer from Zhongwei in Gansu, has been open for three consecutive days. This is the third matter.
We can't be happy. My friends in the court trial told me that the evidence was that their family was poor. When he was arrested, the information we saw and heard was that he was arrested in the name of "evil gansters", if that was the case , then we can give him a title: "the poorest gangster in the country". This kind of "evil gangsters" is probably extremely rare.
Not only did we hear that we had been to his house at the same time, but he was indeed very poor. For one reason or another, our environmental protection volunteers did not know the outcome of the case, but what we knew was that he was poor and he reported A series of local environmental cases, he has made many patrols for anti-poaching, which we know.
Of course, in today's society under the rule of law, merit cannot be outweighed.But who should be to blame? The eveil ganster or the extortion? Or is it something else? We have known that there are organizations that are trying to bet on his mouth. In the end, we will wait and see the outcome of the court!
We hope that volunteers across the country will listen to and watch the trial. The trial is live on the court's network, and first of all, we have to learn the law from the trial, and we have to be more strict with ourselves. We need to know that we are facing many challenges, not only environmental pollution, environmental destruction, but also these pollution and destruction, vested interest groups, and their eyes behind the tiger.
This is the year of the tiger, our current year, which is not easy, and I hope we can learn from it and get educated from it.
We hope that volunteers across the country will listen to and watch the trial. The trial is live on the court's network, and first of all, we have to learn the law from the trial, and we have to be more strict with ourselves. We need to know that we are facing many challenges, not only environmental pollution, environmental destruction, but also these pollution and destruction, vested interest groups, and their eyes behind the “tiger”.
As we celebrate the year of Tiger, which is not easy, and I hope we can learn from our experience.
The Year of the Tiger is about to begin.
Today we, it is still very cold, a wave of cold hit,but we can fill the warmth.We know we can feel the early spring of ecological civilization.
In the past we have a series of work, including the pollution of tengger, including kara mic reserves, the Yangtze river protection,the Yellow River, series cases of the source of Yellow River in Qinghai. We will insist, as long as we go and pay efforts. Now the ecological civilization is in the early spring, we will be able to win, and to protect our green water and lucid water.
I never like to celebrate the holidays, not only because of these few stories, because our work slows down during the holidays, but now I also get encouragement one by one.
Just now, a colleague said, "I will not work overtime during the holidays, but I will still be responsible for the website I am responsible for." It's the Chinese New Year, a time when people most need to get together and have fun with family and friends; However, more and more of our colleagues, volunteers and even those who oppose us are signing up for our recent seminars. So at the beginning of the New Year, on behalf of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation, I would like to extend my festive greetings to our opponents, to our volunteers and to all of our colleagues. Thank you.
Translator/Lucy
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