As human society continues to develop, so does the exploitation of resources from society, many rare animals are being killed indiscriminately to meet a particular human need, making them rare and protective animals whose populations are in danger of extinction。
Such as soufflés, deer scavengers, beads, pearls, grasshoppers, snakes, etc., are valuable chinese medicine resources, and their corresponding animals are caught in extinction. Today, we have more than 12,800 chinese medicine resources, 1581 of which are animal resources, or 12. 35 per cent。
Although the protection of a wide variety of animals has also been strengthened everywhere, it is always possible to “learn” and extract value from unprotected animals, one of which is earthworms。
01, earthworms of diverse value
It is believed that rural people are no stranger to “earthworms”, but that this kind of machine is a power discharge, which makes it impossible for earthworms hiding in the soil to find their way out of the soil, so that the catchers can take advantage of it。
A few years ago, a group of people came to the village with an electric earthworm that could capture hundreds of pounds a day. The villagers were not alert at the time and felt that there were many earthworms and that there was no need to intervene。
However, after several rounds of extermination by the group, the villagers found that there had been a significant decrease in the number of earthworms. Some fishers tried to dig earthworms, and in many places they did not see earthworms。
It may be the view of many that earthworms live only in the soil and can be used to defusing land or to fish for shrimp. In fact, earthworms are very valuable, and now they are on the market for chinese medicine, and their prices have risen dramatically, but they are causing earthworms to find themselves, and an extinct capture chain begins。
Earthworm drying, also known as the dragon dry, is a common chinese medicine, although prices continue to rise as a result of high temperatures and severe droughts in the northern plains and the reduction in earthworm availability this year。
So, what's the value of the dragon dry? In the medical books, it is recorded that the dry dry has communication, asthma, heating, urine, etc., and that there are more than 40 medicines. Modern medicine has found that earthworms are rich in georonics, as well as in vitamins and amino acids, which increase the immune capacity of the organism, as well as clean urine and so on, making earthworms one of the ingredients of health care in recent years。
With the recognition of earthworms, there is growing demand on the market, which has led to higher earthworm prices, which rose from $30 per kilogram 10 years ago to $70 per kilogram, and 300 per kilogram today。
02, extermination
As earthworm prices continue to rise, the capture of a group of people has also been triggered in this context by the emergence of an “ecstasy machine”, which can then form a closed ring on half a metre of the ground by inserting two power lines into the soil and then pressuring the equipment, thus causing earthworms in the area to be pumped out by currents。
And the dramatic reduction in the number of earthworms resulting from the extermination of people everywhere is clearly a bad signal that will lead to a series of environmental problems that will be condemned by a number of experts and harshly described。
The main location of earthworms is the soil with a high organic content, such as vegetable gardens, the front and back yards, and the largest agricultural land, where resources are available, where hundreds of pounds of earthworms are easily electrocuted a day. As market demand is high, large power earthworms are also manufactured, again containing earthworm resources。
Earthworms have the aesthetics of ecosystem engineers and are widely distributed in nature, with approximately 2-2 million earthworms per hectare, combined with earthworms with the habit of drilling and creeping, and their groin properties, which make earthworms well defusing the soil and make the soil airy。
At the same time, earthworms, as consumers and decomposers of soil ecology, can transmit soil energy, swallow rotting plants and shredding in the soil, and accelerate the decomposition of organic matter, thus allowing soil ecosystems to circulate。
Of course, the manure released from earthworms is a good organic fertilizer, with three major elements of nitrogen phosphorus, which can meet the needs of crop growth and allow crops to grow and produce more. If the number of earthworms in the soil is reduced sharply, it will cause earthworms to become compact, their permeability will decline and the soil nutrients will be depleted, causing serious damage to the land。
03. Focused local strikes
Focused strikes on earthworms have now been launched in various locations, such as in may when the dongchuan police captured six men and seized over 200 kilograms of earthworms. According to the information received, when the police arrived at the scene, one of the men was found to have captured six bags of earthworms, who also claimed that the earthworms caught this year were much smaller than last year, and that the rate of growth had not kept pace with the killing due to the indiscriminate arrest of earthworms。
Although earthworms are not now included in the protection of animals, they are also subjected to legal attacks under the wildlife protection ordinance. At the same time, sichuan province has submitted a bill to the state “prohibition of earthworms” and guangdong province has explicitly outlawed earthworms and has prosecuted three vendors, sentencing them to more than 2 million fees and sentencing their officials to six years' imprisonment。
Of course, a number of experts have called for the scaling up of farming, such as professor zhang of the university of chinese medicine in guangzhou. In this way, a new farming project has been born, but farming is risky and requires vigilance and blind input。
