Recently, the elephant migration in Yunnan has attracted attention at home and abroad. Zhou Jinfeng, the vice chairman and secretary-general of the CBCGDF, has always paid close attention to it. He explained how elephants play an important role in “carbon neutrality”.

Many people know that elephants are the most important spreader of African savannas. In Africa, unlike Asia where humans plant large-scale plants, people in Africa basically rely on elephants to grow plants. Elephants eat grass and shrubs, then migrate and excrete midway. Seeds mixed in the excrement begin to grow, then new savannas grow.

The seeds start to grow in the excrement, and then they grow. New sparse grassland. Therefore, elephants are the most important propagators of African savannas. Without elephants, there would be no such healthy and vibrant savannas.

The Asian elephant also has this function, it is also a carbon sequestration. In the tropical rainforest, grasses and shrubs grow very fast. After the elephant eats the plant, part of the carbon in the plant is converted into its energy, which is used to grow the body as a kind of carbon sequestration, and a large part of it exists in its excretion. Excreta, such as tree stems and fruit shells, are all carbon, which becomes peat and is fixed in the soil or other places for carbon fixation. And when elephants eat the original plants, it provides space for new plants to grow, making the tropical rain forest grow quickly.

In this way, the elephant is constantly eating, transforming, and spreading. It is an important disseminator, fertilization, cultivator, and carbon fixer. In terms of carbon goals, elephants are a very important member of the entire biodiversity, the entire ecosystem, and the only habitat for mankind.

Author: Sakura

Edited by Angel

Translated by Estella

Original Chinese article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HG97VfKHTU0iaUwrsypYdg

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