Protecting Wild Animals Is Protecting Ourselves

• 作者: WANG YUAN
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 农学
• 关键词: 野生动物保护工作 生态保护 物种消失 侏罗纪公园 生物多样性 国家林业局 科学发展 生态系统
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（10）
• 页码范围: 34-37
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: S863

摘要

Extinction is irreversible.Once a species is gone,it’s not coming back(barring some Jurassic Park-like scientiic development).Extinction has wide-ranging ramiications for the ecosystem and biodiversity.Many species are afected by the disappearance of one.Sometimes the efects are foreseeable–most of the time they are not.Ensuring that all species have the chance to thrive free of human interference is paramount to ecological conservation,and doing so will also beneit humanity.These are the core messages of a recent interview with Zhao Shucong,director of the State Forestry Administration that leads China’s wildlife protection eforts.Excerpts from the interview are below: