Sad!The Yangtze River Baiyan was officially announced, and there was another kind of Chinese native species that was about to disappear

Recently, the news about the wild protection animal Yangtze River Baiya is very sad:

The Yangtze River Baiji, which has survived on the earth for 150 million years, was officially announced by the World Nature Conservation Alliance (IUCN). Two -thirds of the only 26 kinds of catfish are in extremely endangered.

White 鲟, the picture is from CCTV, which is in danger

The construction of the dam has blocked their migration routes. The mining of gravel destroys their spawning fields, and illegally capture their lives ...

Human beings are unscrupulous to plunder resources from nature, and are moving more and more wild animals towards extinction. In addition to the Yangtze River Baiyu, another local original species in China, green peacocks, will soon disappear from the earth.

Green peacock

Photographer: Zhuang Xiaosong

Green Peacock is the prototype of the auspicious bird of the traditional culture of my country, the phoenix, which has been distributed in the vast area of ​​southern my country. For thousands of years, we have been intertwined with our civilization, and they can always be seen on poetry, songs, and clothing.

Peacock flying southeast,

Five miles wandering.

Yue Birds Youth and Good Color,

Qingxuan entered the household to watch the clothes.

However, today, the green peacock has become precious. This beautiful bird has been listed as a "endangered species" by the World Nature Protection Alliance (IUCN) since 2009. There are less than 600, less than the panda! Due to the excessive development and construction of human beings, their last precious habitat has also been threatened.

In March 2017, Gu Bojian, a young ecological protection worker, heard the call for the green peacock during the surgery of the field. The construction of a hydropower station will flood their last home.

Green Peacock Guardian, PhD in Ecology of Fudan University

Gu Bojian

After learning about this, many environmental protection organizations such as natural friends, wild China, and Landscape Nature Protection Center quickly moved to move, and launched a vigorous "green peacock protection action".

In order to allow more people, especially children to understand, pay attention, and protect green peacocks, the friends of nature and relay publishing house together planned the picture book "Green Peacock -Where is my home".

The picture book tells the story of a wild green peacock from the shell to grow in the population to grow, and then to the adventure of the "bird's birth", and finally get human assistance.

Gato -Gaha -The bright sound of the beautiful deep valley, a few cute little peacocks broke the shell, the protagonist "Little Green" in the book came to the scene with a stomach: "Mom gives me me It is named "Little Green", is she wrong ... but, my mother said that we are green peacocks, and this land on the land is right! "This is right!"

Every day, Xiaolu follows her mother and friends to live a carefree life, foraging, bathing, and playing ... however, as the habitat is getting smaller and less and less, Xiaolu has to run. Go to farmland to find food.

Unfortunate little green was caught by humans, forced to leave home, and became a "bird ornamental" that was raised in a cage ...

Thanks to the two kind people, they rescued Xiao Lu and returned Xiao Green home.

In the story, Green Peacock Xiaolu returned to home smoothly with the help of two environmental workers; besides the story, more and more enthusiastic and environmentally friendly people are actively running for the protection of green peacocks and protecting wildlife.

"Green Peacock -Where is my home" was created by the real "green peacock protection action" incident. The picture book is based on the ecological protection of our country. It is created by senior reading promoters Xu Meiling and Yunnan painter Yang Siqing, so that small readers can understand and pay more attention to the rare species and biological diversity of our country. The seeds of fear of life.

Various beauty and preciousness of green peacocks and biology

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"Green Peacock -Where is my home" from a small idea to publishing and listing, it has been polished for nearly two years. The inside texts are all full -color hand -painted, water and pigments are naturally blended, delicate and beautiful, perfectly showing the vibrant scenery and unique biodiversity of the tropical monsoon, allowing small readers to fully feel the beauty and shock of nature and biological diversity Essence

In order to create this exquisite picture book, Yunnan painter Yang Siqing spent 3 months in the early stage to go to the forest and valley for data collection and research, record the details of the plant, the original form of animals, and perform artistic restoration as much as possible.

Green Peacock habitats, precious birds, green throat bees, brown fishing crickets, etc., and local special vegetation are reflected in the book. These are also an important part of the green peacock habitat ecosystem. Their fate, rest together.

Painter field collection

Green peacock feathers are gorgeous and colorful, and they have the name of "golden peacock" in the local area. In order to restore the glorious characteristics of the green peacock wings, the original paintings in the book are embellished with golden powder, and the cover uses the laser bleeding process, which perfectly presents the beautiful "golden" unique to the green peacock.

Golden Green Peacock

Protect it, start from knowing it!

How is the level of endangered species of the World Natural Protection of the World? What are the origin of green peacocks and Chinese civilization? What are the differences between it and the blue peacock? Where is the home of the green peacock and what are the food? What are their favorite activities?

"Green Peacock -Where is my Home" popularized the rich green peacock knowledge and presented in various forms, allowing children to understand this beautiful species in all aspects.In the book, the popular science knowledge is cleverly integrated into the story and the picture, showing the growth process, living habits, and ecological environment of the green peacock.There is a knowledge column of "approaching the green peacock" behind the book to answer these questions one by one.The QR code of scanning can also listen to the tweet of green peacocks and watch the precious videos of wild green peacocks.

Live and interesting knowledge column

Beautiful green peacocks not only occupy an important position in Chinese culture, but also a bright pearl in my country's biological diversity family.

Open the picture book "Green Peacock -Where is my home" and protect this beautiful species together.

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