When it comes to the best domestic documentaries in 2021, TVB's "Infinity Road" will definitely be among the Top 3.
has been rated by nearly 20,000 netizens, and the Douban score is still 9.5 points. With this film, the host Chen Beier also won the title of "Character of the Year 2021 Touching China". When
"Infinity Road" was broadcast, some people asked if there would be a sequel. This summer, "Infinite Road 2: The Priceless Guarantee" officially returns, and the last two episodes will be broadcast on September 23. The current Douban score is 9.4 points. Judging from the ratings, it may be one of the few sequels that does not lose to the previous one.
Documentary "Priceless Guarantee". / Douban
The theme of this season focuses on the road of ecological reconstruction in China. The entire filming was still difficult. The 5-person film crew traveled to more than 10 provinces in 3 months. The host Chen Beier said: "Last year I climbed the ladder, this year I climbed Tianshan ."
conveyed through the camera, we saw the determination of the country's green transformation, and also knew that in different regions, there are many people silently guarding the green Water green mountains.
The successors of Hoh Xil
During the filming of "The Priceless Guarantee", Chen Beier saw hundreds of Tibetan antelopes running on the land of Hoh Xil. With tears in her eyes, she shouted, "This scene is so touching." The
host gave the Tibetan antelope a blessing. / "Priceless Guarantee"
This slack migration scene is really hard to come by.
is located in "Kekexili" at the source of the Yangtze River, which means "beautiful girl" in Chinese. This "girl" has high altitude and harsh natural conditions. It is one of the four uninhabited areas in China and one of the areas where Tibetan antelopes are most concentrated.
In the 1980s, frenzied poaching brought a disastrous blow to Hoh Xil. Poachers can peel off a Tibetan antelope skin in just ten seconds. The number of Tibetan antelopes dropped sharply from more than 200,000 to less than 20,000.
Tibetan antelope is a key species in plateau ecology. / Vision China
Tibetan antelope supports the complete food chain of plateau ecology. If the Tibetan antelope disappears, bears, wolves, eagles and even crows will lose their food sources, and the ecological balance of the plateau is likely to be disrupted.
In the documentary, Chen Beier interviewed Kekexili patrolman Qiupei Tashi and forest policeman Putuo Cairen. The brothers' uncle Sonam Dajie and their father, Zaba Dorje, both worked hard to protect the Tibetan antelope and even gave their lives.
In 1992, Sonan Dajie, deputy secretary of the Zhiduo County Party Committee in Qinghai, formed the first national armed anti-poaching team. Two years later, during a mountain tour, Sonam Dajie had a gun battle with 18 poachers. He was shot several times and kept holding the gun until his death.
talked about the sacrifices of his parents, and Putuo Cairen held back his tears in front of the camera. Sonam Dajie's deeds caused butterfly effect , inspiring more people to join the ranks of rangers. The new generation of
rangers inherit the spirit of Sonam Dajie. / "Priceless Guarantee"
In recent years, my country has continuously increased ecological protection efforts, and the poaching of Tibetan antelope has disappeared in Hoh Xil. By 2021, the number of local Tibetan antelopes will rise to more than 300,000, down from "endangered species" to "nearly endangered species". The sound of poaching guns is no longer heard in the
reserve, but another new problem that threatens the ecology of the plateau has attracted people's attention.
In the summer of 2021, the news reported on the giant garbage patch in Hoh Xil, more than 200 meters long and about 20 meters wide. Ah Jing, who is in Guangzhou, was shocked when he saw the report: The source of the Yangtze River on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is supposed to be holy and beautiful, why is there so much garbage?
Ah Jing's impression of "No Man's Land" at that time was still stuck in the movie "Kekexili" that he watched in elementary school. Sonam Dajie's deeds shocked the people in Hoh Xil and left a deep impression on a southern boy.
"Kekexili" directed by Lu Chuan . / Douban
Ah Jing contacted the non-governmental environmental protection organization " Green River ", quit his job in Guangzhou, and went to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as a volunteer. Recently, a reporter from New Weekly chatted with Ah Jing about this volunteer experience.
Alpine reaction and hard life are what every volunteer needs to face. Ah Jing lived at the Kunlun Mountain Post Station at the time, and it took nearly 6 hours to drive up the mountain. The temperature difference between day and night is more than 30 degrees Celsius, surrounded by permafrostLayer , one step at a time.
"We spend a lot of time picking up garbage every day. When we pick up plastic bottles full of human body fluids, we have to open them, throw them out, and then flatten them." Ah Jing recalled. In just 20 minutes, the plastic bottles and packaging bags picked up by two volunteers can cover three square meters.
Ah Jing shared his volunteer experience in Guangzhou. /New Weekly reporter photo
Volunteers will divide the garbage into small bags, and then ask passing drivers to take them to the recycling point at the foot of the mountain. They will also go to the surrounding hotels to promote, encouraging people to take the garbage generated on the road back to the inn in exchange for washing powder, shower gel and other daily necessities.
After three months of volunteering, Ah Jing said: "To do environmental protection on the plateau, the important thing is not to punish those who litter, but to educate those who haven't littered." Take a bag of trash. /@青江河NGO
In August 2021, when Ah Jing returned to his hometown of Chaozhou , he found that the beach in front of his house was littered with marine debris such as broken fishing nets and foam buckets for growing oysters. Inspired by environmental protection organizations on the plateau, he set up the "Taishan Volunteer Association" in his hometown, mobilizing people around him to pick up trash on the beach every month.
Ah Jing said: "Volunteers are a carrier to spread environmental awareness, not a tool for picking up garbage. The words and deeds of volunteers will have an impact on the people around them, especially local children. I see many brothers and sisters picking up garbage from the city. Garbage, can lead them to protect the environment around them.”
The food and clothing are solved, what should we do next? How much effect can a volunteer spend a month or two in the uninhabited area of the plateau? Yang Xin, the founder of "Green River", answered with a short story in his early years:
A boy threw fish washed ashore by the tide into the sea, and someone asked him: "The sea has a lot of fish washed up every day, how many fish can you throw away? How about going back?" The boy said, "I save one, and at least the one I save will survive."
The fish in the sea may wash up ashore every day, but the fish in the big river are likely to be exhausted.
The Yangtze River is a treasure trove of freshwater creatures. /Visual China
In recent years, the Yangtze River Biological Integrity Index has reached the worst level of "no fish". The popular understanding is that the fishermen have been unable to catch fish according to the traditional fishing methods. From 2021, a 10-year fishing ban on the Yangtze River will begin. In the third episode of
's "Priceless Protection", Chen Beier embarked on the speedboat of the private fishing protection team to experience the late night patrol on the Yangtze River. The captain of this fishing team is Liu Hong, who lives in Jiangjin, Chongqing, and used to go fishing with his brother when he was a child.
In recent years, diners' pursuit of wild fish has made illegal electric fish rampant. Seeing that the fish in the Yangtze River were about to be electrocuted, Liu Hong, who had some savings in the construction business, led the formation of the Yangtze River Fishing Volunteer Team in 2014.
In the past 8 years, Liu Hong has spent thousands of nights on the river, assisting the fishery department in cracking down on more than 2,000 cases of illegal fishing. On the night of the
interview, within 4 hours after the fishing team started patrolling, they found the poachers and seized 4 illegal fishing rods. Seeing 16 hooks attached to a fishing rod, Chen Beier was stunned.
The fishing team seized a fishing rod used for illegal fishing. / "Priceless Guarantee"
In order to avoid arrest, the illegal poaching boat was once replaced with a high-horsepower speedboat. Liu Hong felt that the boat for protecting the fishing also had to be upgraded. He paid for it out of his own pocket and built a crash-proof speedboat with more horsepower and a lighter hull. Adding up to the purchase of equipment and cruising fuel costs, Liu Hong spent millions of yuan for fishing protection over the years.
asked about the original intention of protecting the fishing, and Liu Hong said: "I have solved my own food and clothing, and I should benefit my children and grandchildren." No matter how good the motive is,
has to accept the challenge of reality. The huge profits of illegal fishing make fishing volunteers in the whirlpool of interests. They volunteered to protect fishing, not against one or two people, but against people in the entire chain of wild fish interests.
Chen Beier and Liu Hong patrol the Yangtze River together. / "Priceless Guarantee"
Over time, Liu Hong was regarded as a "thorn in the eye" by illegal poachers. He has received threats, slandered rumors, and was beaten to death.
Some people questioned the legitimacy of volunteer patrols. Liu Hong said: "In the face of illegal and criminal acts, any citizen has the right to stop them." hold on. They are ordinary people such as security guards, fishermen, and farmers during the day, and at night they turn into "fishermen" who gallop across the Yangtze River.
loves the Yangtze River and his hometown. / "Priceless Protection"
As people pay more attention to the ecology of the Yangtze River, this private fishing protection team has received more and more social support.
In recent years, the Jiangjin fishery department has begun to purchase accident insurance for volunteers in the protection of fisheries, and will also reimburse part of the oil expenses to the protection boats. The locals volunteered to be "informants" for the fishing protection team, and more young people participated in the volunteer ranks.
The ideal state of nature conservation
If there are no bosses who are willing to contribute money among volunteers, can environmental protection continue?
is ok. The
"Priceless Guarantee" filming team ran to the foot of Xinjiang Tianshan , followed the footsteps of the volunteers in "Wild Xinjiang" to find Snow Leopard .
Next year, the "Wild Xinjiang" project will enter its 10th year. At first, the team's volunteers placed more than 100 infrared cameras crowdfunded on the steep cliff to investigate the distribution of wild animals in Tianshan.
Volunteers put the camera on the edge of the cliff where snow leopards often urinate. / "Priceless Guarantee"
When people thought snow leopards were extinct, these volunteers accidentally caught the paw prints of wild snow leopards. Snow leopards are known as "Kings of Snow Mountains". They are the top predators of alpine ecosystems and one of the important symbols of a region's ecological balance. Through the photos, videos and observation notes collected by volunteers,
has the opportunity to watch snow leopards hunt, sleep and mate, and even write a story about the change of snow leopard dynasty.
Human knowledge of snow leopards is increasing. /Visual China
In addition to the vibrant scenes, there are also some distressing images. In an offline sharing session, the volunteers of "Wild Xinjiang" mentioned the problem of "human-animal conflict": a snow leopard dragged its foot caught by a beast and died little by little. Even if
is expensive as the "King of Snow Mountains", snow leopards will lack prey in winter and have to run down the mountain to steal the sheep of the herdsmen. In response to this problem, this volunteer team collaborated with the local government to promote the establishment of a snow leopard ecological compensation fund to solve the conflict between humans and wild animals.
Protecting wildlife requires not only financial support, but emotional and moral concerns as well.
Chen Beier took a group photo with the volunteers of "Wild Frontier". /Weibo
Lu Zhi, a professor of conservation biology at Peking University, said: "The ideal state of nature conservation is that protection becomes everyone's business. ... Only when many people do it will support more people to do it. Big The change is the result of many people's push, not one or two people lobbying there, nor is it necessary for you." At the end of the filming of
"Priceless Guarantee", Chen Beier collected a lot of souvenirs: Qinghai-Tibet Highway Picked up The cans that arrived, the hooks used by illegal fishermen in the Yangtze River, the atlas of wild Asian elephants in Yunnan, a bottle of water in the Erhai Lake in Yunnan, and a bottle of sand in the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia.
One sand and one world, one water and one ocean. Another planet in the universe suitable for human life. NASA estimates that it will fly continuously with the fastest spacecraft at a distance of 1,400 light-years from the earth for at least 10,000 years.
At least tens of thousands of years, we will insist on staying on this blue planet. If we can't protect this place, I'm afraid we have no other way out. When this season of
's documentary was broadcast, Chen Beier once sighed: "The world is not just high-rise buildings, cold digital and electronic products, as long as you go out, you will see mountains, water and animals, and nature and human beings are the same. It is closely related.” The so-called priceless “guarantee” by
protects the ecological nature, as well as the present and future of human beings.
References:
[1] "Infinity Road 2" focuses on ecology丨Yangcheng Evening News
[2] "Infinity Road 2" is on the air!丨Gapper International Volunteer Travel
[3] "escort" the breeding of Yangtze fish丨Jiangjin Rong Media
[4] Where is the next balance丨Lu Zhi
[5] Don't let the "King of Snow Mountain" become a memory丨Urumqi Evening News
[6] The change of kings above the snow-capped mountains丨Urumqi Evening News
[7] Green River: The Unbearable Touch of Life丨Phoenix.
[8] is downgraded! Tibetan antelope from endangered to near endangered丨CCTV News
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