World Wildlife Day

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

It seems that the indefatigable person, during his presence on Earth, managed to look into all the secret places of the planet, disrupting the natural development of nature and putting all her amazing abilities at his service. But, oddly enough, wildlife continues to live, and the United Nations even declared one day of the year "World Wildlife Day"

Wildlife under the protection of man

It is sad, of course, that nature, which gives a person everything he needs for his life on an amazingly beautiful planet, needs protection not from some alien monsters, but from the person himself. People who live according to the principle: "at least the grass does not grow after me", guided by momentary selfish interests, spoil landscapes and fertile soils with dumps of coal waste, catch, or even shoot, rare animals living in the wild, dig up healing plant roots in quantities, leaving no chance for such plants to continue life on the planet. In general, people, being a particle of earthly life, become enemies of this life.

However, there are other people who care about the future of the blue planet. Therefore, on the third of March this year (2018), for the fifth time, they celebrated "World Wildlife Day", a holiday established by the UN in December 2013. And forty-five years ago, the rules for the international trade of plants and animals living in the wild were established. Such nature is called "wild" not because it poses a danger to humans, but because it lives by itself, not counting on human help, such as domestic cats and dogs, as well as our garden plants.

Of course, adding a holiday to your calendar does not mean saving wildlife. But, such a holiday contributes to the close attention of all sane people to the beauty and diversity of our planet, reminds of the need to protect nature from the harmful activities of individual representatives of the human race.

The many faces of nature

I never cease to be amazed at the diversity and vitality of natural creatures.

A friendly "flock" declare the arrival of spring undersized

Primrose (lat. Primula) or Primrose … They got their Latin name for the courage of appearing on the surface of the earth one of its first spring decorations (Latin "primus" means "first"), when the sun had not yet had time to melt all the snow that had covered the soil from the winter cold for so long. The birthplace of this beauty is the Siberian land.

This picturesque bush is one of the types of numerous

family Euphorbiaceae (lat. Euphorbiaceae) … The plant chose a Thai island for its place of residence and takes care of its own well-being, storing water for future use in its thorny stem and leaves during the rainy season.

As a child, it seemed that coniferous trees, not afraid of frost and showing their fragrant green needles all year round, grow only here, in Siberia, like this huge

Spruce (lat. Picea) in my dacha, the scope of the branches of which is visible even from a photograph of a fragment of the Spruce. It is not for nothing that she represents on Earth a glorious family of evergreen trees - Pine trees (lat. Pinaceae).

But it turned out that coniferous trees, no less impressive in their size and beauty, grow in the warm regions of Southeast Asia. For example like this

Araucaria heterophylla (lat. Araucaria heterophylla)growing next to Coconut palms and Bananas in Phuket. Moreover, as scientists write, similar conifers grew in all parts of the world one hundred and fifty million years ago. That is, Araucaria is much older than Pine and Spruce, but continues to decorate the planet with its evergreen needles.

Red brushes

Rowan (Latin Sorbus), sung by many poets, are not only spectacular and bright, but also contain a lot of useful substances necessary for human health. Rowan is quite an ordinary tree in Russian open spaces, distinguished by its unpretentiousness to the composition of the soil and a record ability to withstand Russian frosts. A century would admire this bright beauty!

And this beauty lives in Thailand and other tropical regions of the planet, called

Papaya (lat. Papaya) … The arrangement of its huge openwork leaves makes the tree look like a Palm, but, to me personally, Papaya for some reason reminded our Red Rowan. The fruits, of course, will not compete in their size with the bright clusters of Rowan, but in their useful abilities they are somewhat in tune with them.