I just watched this documentary “The Year of Earth Changes”, about the year when humans were forced to close down and not travel because of the epidemic, a year of great suffering for humans, but a year of respite for natural animals. During this year, nature was given a peace that had not been seen in almost 30 years, as humans reduced the amount of tourism and industrial activity.
A quarter of the stores were closed and 3 billion people were in a state of seclusion. Nature was coming back to life faster than mankind could have imagined.
Thanks to the cruise ship industry shutdown, whale breeding numbers increased, whales were free from the great noise of cruise ships in the ocean, females and calves could be separated by great distances, and female whale mothers could finally stop taking their babies with them and go rounding up schools of fish en masse, returning to nurse their children when they were full. Mothers are no longer worried about their children being in danger, and they will communicate with their calls even when they are far apart. This was never possible before when humans were busy.
At one time, a large number of human beings occupied the beaches, leaving the turtles that used the beaches as breeding sites with no place to breed, and the female turtles chose to sterilize in large numbers and no longer go to the beaches where humans were active to breed.
Instead of starving to death due to the plunge in tourists, the deer in Nara, Japan, are walking freely in the sparsely populated Nara Prefecture, looking for grass everywhere in the city, and instead of relying on human cookies, they are better able to eat the food they were meant to eat, and their health is more balanced than it used to be.
The tourism industry in Africa has shrunk dramatically and the hotels that once stood empty are now empty, resulting in leopards and mergansers moving in and becoming the new masters of the land, where leopards can no longer hide from humans and can hunt for more food as their living space expands.
The wild cheetahs in the African grasslands have been given a good space to breed. The female cheetah usually hides her babies and goes hunting alone, but after a successful hunt she is often hundreds of meters away from her cubs, and she has to make a special, careful call for them to join her. The roar of human ornamental cars makes it difficult for her cubs to hear their mother’s cries. The year of the epidemic, there were no more humans to watch the wild female cheetah hunt. The female cheetah could easily let her cubs hear the signals of her successful hunt, and the cheetah’s cubs had an unprecedented increase in survival rate this year.
Humans have always believed that man and nature can live in harmony, but little do they know that we have been making it more difficult for other animals to survive. Without human intrusion, animals are rapidly increasing their reproduction numbers in just one year, with more food for mothers and cubs, and higher survival rates for each species of baby.
The human catastrophe has instead allowed the animals to finally get the best respite they have had in almost 30 years. I thought the epidemic was too annoying to go anywhere until I read this, and I think it’s time for humans to stop.
The best environmental protection is to reduce the number of human beings and give the animals the space they need to live.
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