My indissoluble bond with wild animals-written on World Wildlife Day

On the eve of World Wildlife Day (March 3) this year, Li Yiyan from Bao Yugang Experimental School donated two infrared cameras to Shanghai Wildlife Conservation Association to help the monitoring and protection of wildlife in Shanghai develop better.

Li Yi-eucalyptus likes animals since childhood and actively learns relevant knowledge through various channels. Let’s listen to Li Tongxue’s voice:

I have to say that the reason why I like nature and animals is inseparable from the education of Bao Yugang Experimental School and the support of my family.

In the third grade, I was deeply touched after watching a documentary about the impact of human domestic waste on marine life at school. The idea of loving nature and protecting animals began to sprout in my mind. From then on, I started with small things, tried not to use plastic products as much as possible, tried to take a cloth bag when I went out, and avoided using plastic bags provided by merchants.

One year, our school had the honor to invite Jane Goodall, a very famous and outstanding expert in animal protection and biology in the world. She mentioned that her whole life course was related to chimpanzees, and she paid unimaginable hardships and difficulties for this cause. Her perseverance, persistence and courage deeply touched me and planted a seed in my heart that contributed to the development of animal protection. This "seed" germinated in the fourth grade. I came up with a plan to set up an animal protection group, which was strongly supported and encouraged by President Chen Yan of our school. So under my appeal, I initiated the establishment of ACG(Animal Care Group), in which more than 50 volunteer students participated, to observe the cats, dogs and birds in our school and put forward and implement corresponding protection measures.

Among them, we have done three activities in the primary school. In the first activity, we observed that young birds would fall from trees in summer, so we designed a special slightly processed rattan to make bird nests. We learned that adult birds often store stones and leaves in bird nests, so we processed them again in the later stage to provide birds with a "direct occupancy experience". Finally, nearly 20 bird nests we made were placed in trees in three campuses with the support of the principal and general affairs related personnel. The second activity was to provide a cat nest for stray cats in school. At that time, we didn’t have the ability to make our own cat nest, so our club spent a lot of time selecting materials. The cat nest we provide is environmentally friendly and waterproof, making contributions where we can. The first two times have contributed to the ecological environment and animal protection in the school. I think we should expand our contribution to animal protection and not limit ourselves to school activities. So there was the third activity, the charity sale. I won a booth for the charity sale organized by our animal care society in the school for our group, and finally donated the funds from our charity sale to Shanghai Rendu Marine Public Welfare Development Center.

At the same time, my parents are very supportive of me. Every activity is inseparable from their encouragement and help. For example, when I prepare my speech, they will accompany me to collect information and recite the manuscript together; When making a bird’s nest, they will give up the weekend to accompany me to inspect the structure and material selection of the bird’s nest online, and even accompany me to the suburbs to observe the bird’s nest built by different birds and so on. I am very grateful to my parents and school for their support and encouragement on my way to protect animals, which have played a vital role in establishing and persisting in my beliefs and actions in animal protection and given me the motivation and confidence to start my journey of animal protection.

What I remember most is my experience in Yunnan last summer vacation. Yunnan is the province with the richest ecological diversity in China. By chance, I am lucky enough to live on Mount Jinuo. In retrospect, the short two-day mountain forest experience is very meaningful to me. On the mountain, I followed Mr. Sina, a natural school animal and plant expert, on foot in Keno Shan Ye, and learned a lot of interesting knowledge that I couldn’t learn in textbooks. I learned that after a dog was bitten by a bamboo leaf snake, he would go to Shan Ye to find herbs to eat to relieve the snake venom. I learned that Bidens bipinnata can play the game of stabbing people; I know how the firefly beetle, Aphrodite, responds to the toxins secreted in food. I ate the shea butter picked in the wild valley that can detoxify bacteria, drank the homemade drinks made by butterfly bean flower, climbed the ancient banyan tree with a thousand years, and saw the Japanese sage orchid whose roots are used as medicine and the fruit is poisonous, etc … These experiences are precious and unforgettable for me.

I firmly believe that we should have awe and humility towards nature, respect all the sources of life and become participants in nature protection. Nature has endless magical power, and creating harmony between man and nature is related to each of us. Let’s start with the little things around us and protect animals and nature together!

Original title: "Li Yi eucalyptus | My indissoluble bond with wildlife-written on World Wildlife Day"

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