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Fang Ye was looking at the resumes of volunteer applications on his computer, picked up his cup to take a sip of water, and suddenly saw an email titled "Help Regarding Green Peafowl".

His gaze immediately sharpened, and he set the cup down to review the content of the email.

"Hello, Zoo Director Fang, I am a fan of yours, and I always watch your live streams!

Here is the situation: my family lives here in Yunnan. Usually, I work outside, but recently I've started to miss the elderly at home, so I went back for a visit. I found out that a hydropower station is being constructed behind our house, and in a few years, our houses and farmland will be submerged. The old folks are quite reluctant to let go.

In fact, we'd heard about the hydropower station being built years ago, but no one gave it much thought at the time.

However, having watched your live streams, my awareness of animal protection has grown. When I heard the news again during my visit, I realized we have green peafowl here. Could the construction of the hydropower station affect the green peafowl?

I previously sent you a private message on Weibo but it seems you didn't see it, so I also sent an email to the address you provided for volunteer recruitment, hoping you would see this message! My QQ is the same as this email, and my WeChat and phone number are...

Wishing your zoo all the best!"

Upon reading this email, Fang Ye's eyes widened and he blurted out an astonished "Holy shit!"

He hurriedly searched the web pages for keywords related to 'green peafowl' and 'hydropower stations', but couldn't find the information he was looking for.

Blue Planet is broadly similar to Earth, but there are some differences in the details!

The living conditions for some animals are even more difficult. For example, the giant panda has not yet escaped being endangered, while the status of others is better than on Earth, such as the Chinese river dolphin, which hasn't gone extinct and is occasionally reported.

On Earth, the "green peafowl" case was the first of its kind in preventive public interest litigation and caused quite a stir in China. Even many people who don't normally pay attention to animal protection heard about the case, and Fang Ye had also learned a bit about the situation.

However, it seemed that no one on Blue Planet had yet taken notice of the fate of these green peafowl!

At this moment, the system's notification sound also chimed in: "Ding, a rare animal clue has appeared!"

[Animal: Green peafowl

Location: Xinping, Yunnan

Protection time: 1 year (during the protection time, the animal will not face a life-threatening crisis)

Note: Do not seek only when lost, do not hope only when endangered, and do not lament vainly when extinct.

Reward: Two pairs of green peafowl!]

Fang Ye let out another deeply shocked "Holy shit!"

If the system mentioned a reward of green peafowl, then it definitely meant green peafowl!

When he was originally planning the tropical aviary, he even considered purchasing a few green peafowl from other zoos.

But when he inquired with a zoo director he was more familiar with at Lanhe Zoo, asking if there were any purebred green peafowl, he was laughed at. They said there were no purebred green peafowl in domestic zoos, only ones that had interbred with blue peafowl.

Fang Ye was somewhat disbelieving. Perhaps other zoos had crossbred peafowl, but surely Yunnan would have purebred ones?

After researching and consulting with other zoo directors, he discovered that, indeed, it was the case.

During the 1980s and 90s, juvenile peafowl captured in the wild or confiscated ones were sent to several zoos in Yunnan, where there were purebred green peafowl at that time. However, they all eventually interbred with blue peafowl.

It could be said that the green peafowl is a disgrace to domestic zoos!

Fang Ye had several restless nights of sleep, totally frustrated.

The main function of the zoo was to protect endangered animals, carry out artificial breeding to preserve a seed for the future, and, when the time was right, release the artificially bred animals back into the wild to replenish the population. This reckless crossbreeding, if the green peafowl produced were released, would their entire gene pool not be contaminated?

The current wild green peafowl populations, each one was incredibly precious; they definitely couldn't just capture more from the wild like before.

Lan Li asked curiously, "Director, what's wrong?"

Fang Ye showed her the email, and Lan Li blinked, "Green peafowl?"

The zoo had blue peafowl, and her knowledge about the green peafowl was limited to understanding that they were quite rare and a nationally protected species.

Fang Ye quickly started hammering away at the keyboard with keywords. There weren't many papers on green peafowl population and distribution, but he found two studies; one, rather old, was published in 1995 and conducted a comprehensive survey of green peafowl in the country.

Green peafowl were only found in Yunnan within the country, nowhere else. At that time, the total number of green peafowl in Yunnan was estimated to be between 800 and 1,100.

In the past few years, another survey took place, estimating the number of green peafowl to be around 500-600!

Fang Ye took a sharp breath in, "This cannot wait, I need to consult an expert."

"Hey hey, Lan Li, I've sent you a paper, can you help me find the contact information for these authors?"

After all, everyone was in the animal circle; a few phone calls later, even the unfamiliar ones knew how to get in touch.

"Mhm, mhm!"

While Lan Li searched, Fang Ye also added the fan's WeChat to get a rough idea of the situation.

The fan didn't have much detail about the hydroelectric station, only its name.

A while later, Lan Li said, "Director, I've got in touch with one of them! Sent it over to you!"

Fang Ye dialed the number, "Hello, is this Teacher Yang?"

The voice on the other end was puzzled, "Yes, may I ask who's calling?"

Fang Ye responded, "Oh, I am Fang Ye, the director of Linhai Zoo, referred by a friend... Aren't you an expert on green peafowl? I would like to consult you about some green peafowl issues!"

Teacher Yang's attitude became much friendlier, "Oh! Please go ahead, what's the issue?"

"It's like this, a friend of mine is from Yunnan, and there's a Gaba River hydropower station being built near his home. I'm not sure if this will affect the green peafowl. He came to me for help, and I didn't know much either, so I wanted to ask you..."

After a pause, the call was suddenly hung up!

"What? What?" Fang Ye was dumbfounded and said in shock to Lan Li, "Damn, I just got hung up on!"

Lan Li looked puzzled, "Why would that happen?"
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After thinking for a moment, Fang Ye understood, "Probably doesn't want to get involved in trouble! Eh~"

After all, he wasn't very familiar with them, and asking such sensitive questions involved who knows how many underlying interests.

He asked another expert, who evasively said they weren't very informed. When he made the third call, finally, he found someone willing to answer.

Researcher Gu sighed with regret after hearing about the dam, "There's an impact, certainly there is! I've even conducted research in Xinping before. I can talk to you about it!"