Then researcher Gu said to Fang Ye!


    "According to the survey on the distribution of green peacocks I did before, they are only distributed in the three basins of the Red River, Lancang River and Nujiang River. The Lancang River may have the largest population of green peacocks, which has been made a mess by the hydropower station. Now there are only a little left in the Lancang River and Nujiang River, and the Red River is their largest habitat.


    I haven''t heard of the hydropower station you mentioned, but Xinping''s words should be built in the section of the red river.


    The biggest crisis of Green Peacock now is the loss of habitat!


    Many people have a misconception that green peacocks live in a dense tropical rain forest. In fact, it is not. The place where they live is a tropical seasonal rain forest with sparse and open deciduous vegetation in the dry season, which is a bit like the environment of African savanna.


    Why do green peacocks like to live in this habitat? Maybe it''s this dense and humid tropical rain forest. Its thick feathers are prone to parasites and uncomfortable to stay, right? This open habitat is conducive to the activities of green peacocks.


    The most important thing is the tropical seasonal rain forest. Its herbaceous layer is very developed. The plants are gramineous. Ungulates and green peacocks like to eat this. The plants growing in the tropical rain forest are shade tolerant but poisonous plants of Araceae. What Guangdong evergreen ah, many animals can''t eat at least green sparrows.


    Many of the seasonal rain forests over there have been cut down. What are you doing? What are the main cash crops like mango and macadamia. Therefore, their current habitat environment shrinks very much. In fact, deforestation is OK. The river valley is the main area of tropical seasonal rain forest. As soon as the hydropower station is built and the water rises, the habitat of Green Peacock will be finished.


    In the past, green peacocks were almost everywhere in Yunnan. One of my predecessors who studied birds did research there in the 1960s. He could hear the cry of green peacocks and see the shadow of green peacocks every day. Of course, it is impossible to see this scene now. "


    Fang Ye was surprised and said, "ah, what a pity."


    Researcher Gu sighed: "who said no, there used to be a large tropical seasonal rain forest over Pu''er. Once I went to investigate, a forest ranger told me that at the end of last century, I took a boat all the way down the Lancang River. In the morning, I could see peacocks opening their screens by the river, elephants bathing in the river, bison and herons drinking water by the river, Hornbills fly overhead.


    It''s good to build a national park in such a beautiful place. It''s no worse than those National Parks abroad. However, after the construction of the hydropower station, the whole forest has now sunk more than 100 meters below the water surface. It was so flooded that I didn''t even leave an image. I didn''t even know how it disappeared.


    The scenery is really special and beautiful. Especially in the dry season, the water is very clear. We measured that the water quality is class I water, which can be drunk directly. Now you can find several main rivers in China, and its water quality can reach class I water? You can''t find a few.


    In addition to the beautiful scenery, the biodiversity here is also very rich. There are wild boars, leopard cats and red muntjacs. There are turtles in the lower reaches of the red river. There is their spawning ground there. A hydropower station has been built in the lower reaches in recent years. I don''t know what the current situation of turtles is.


    There are many beautiful birds, such as black necked long tailed pheasant, brown fishing owl, white bellied golden pheasant, Chinese partridge and bee tiger. In theory, there are five kinds of bee tigers. Especially in May, a large number of green throat bee tigers and blue throat bee tigers build nests along the banks of Shiyang River and Lvzhi river.


    I remember Hainan is still somewhere. In order to protect bee tigers from nesting and breeding, a protection community was established. Once the hydropower station was built, it was gone anyway.


    Plants are also very rich. The geographical environment of this place is very unique. The landscape of dry and hot river valley is not only in Africa, but also in China. In the red river of Yunnan, the vegetation is also related. It may be that one of the Indian plates drifted here in the process of drifting. It is very complicated to start. "


    Fang Ye couldn''t help asking, "such good natural resources, it''s reasonable to say that the EIA can''t pass when building a hydropower station?"


    Researcher Gu said with a wry smile, "who knows. Anyway, too many places are so quietly submerged. There''s no way. No matter how good the foundation is, I can''t help making it! "


    Fang Ye thanked: "Miss Gu, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me solve my doubts today, and you are so detailed! The two teachers who asked before didn''t want to talk about this topic. "


    Researcher Gu said: "Mr. Gu is too proud. I''m just young and have less concerns! Because the more qualified you are in the circle, the more inconvenient it is to say some words. There may be background forces in all aspects behind, which may offend people. And some people rely on this EIA for dinner, you know. Ah, in fact, these words have been held back for a long time. I''ll talk to you in private. "


    "OK, I''ll ask you again if I have anything."


    After Fang Ye hung up the phone, he opened the website and frowned to find the EIA report of gabajiang hydropower station.


    It seems that except for some confidential projects, the EIA report should be publicized!


    He is not very familiar with where to find the EIA report. During the search, he also saw some news about large-scale "water abandonment" of hydropower stations.


    In other words, the installed capacity of hydropower has increased explosively and intensively in recent years. The power generation capacity of the power grid far exceeds the total electricity demand of the market. There is a serious surplus of hydropower, and a large amount of hydropower has been wasted.


    Looking at the report, Fang Ye was speechless for a while and continued to find the EIA report!


    After a while, I finally found it on the publicity website. The full text is 599 pages in total. I quickly turned the page and found the part related to the Green Peacock: "the project covers an area of 1800.03hm and the forest land submerged by the reservoir 2（ 10000 square meters), the vegetation within the inundation and land occupation will be damaged, resulting in a certain amount of loss of plant biomass, the integrity of terrestrial ecosystem in some areas may be affected to a certain extent, and the wild animals originally inhabiting here will be forced to migrate.


    ... there is no obvious difference in inundated habitats at different water levels, which will not change the flora and fauna of the region, will not lead to species extinction, and will only have a certain impact on the number of species. "


    Fang ye had nothing to say: "is that the EIA? What do you call forced relocation? What does it mean that it will not lead to species extinction, but will only have a certain impact? "


    When I called researcher Gu just now, people made it clear that the habitat of Green Peacock is the river valley seasonal rain forest. It can''t live in other places. The population situation in the Red River Basin is slightly better than that in the original three river basins.


    Forced to migrate, the habitat is either cut down and planted with cash crops, or flooded by the hydropower station. How to migrate the remaining small area?