International Customs Day is celebrated annually on January 26, a special day designed to raise global customs awareness and promote international customs.
On this day, customs authorities celebrate together and highlight their role in ensuring global security, facilitating and combating smuggling. In addition to this, there is an important theme of International Customs Day, which is the protection of animals.
Protecting animals is an important part of International Customs Day, as the smuggling of wildlife and illegal animal products is a global threat.
As the guardian of the border, Customs shoulders the important task of combating smuggling and protecting ecological security. In the past few years, the customs department has paid more and more attention to the protection of endangered animals, and has taken multiple measures to crack down on the smuggling of wild animals and their products.
This brings us to the China Customs Museum, located in Beijing's Dongcheng District.
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The museum covers an area of 8,000 square meters and has more than 18,700 pieces of various collections and materials, including more than 13,000 physical collections and more than 5,000 pieces.
Each collection is a witness to history, telling the blood and tears of wild animals buried by time. Siberian tiger skins, brown bear skins, snow leopard specimens, wild fox skins. These once living beings are now lying quietly in museums, reminding us of the importance of protecting animals.
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This is a Siberian tiger skin seized by Northeast Customs and transported from Russia, and the number of wild Siberian tigers in China is only about 60.
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This is a brown bear skin seized by Beijing Customs, which is also a first-class protected animal in China, and there are only about 1,800 wild brown bears in China.
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This is a snow leopard specimen, and there is no shortage of live animals in the museum's taxidermy collection, so I can't imagine how cruel the picture is and how painful the animal is.
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It's a complete, lustrous wild fox skin, but you know what? Some people will pick up fox fur alive in order to maintain the luster of their fur, but when beauty becomes the original sin, how innocent are they?
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It's an ivory carving, and to get a tusk like this one would mean that an elephant would leave this world.
Because the tusks are attached to the elephant's skull, it can be said that the tusks are the life of the elephant.
Therefore, some poachers, in order to obtain the tusks of elephants, take the way of anesthetizing the elephants, killing the elephants, and then prying the tusks; There are also more brutal poachers who cut off the elephant's head1 3 and take the head with it for ivory.
Elephant teeth are indispensable for obtaining food, protecting oneself and choosing a mate, and if an elephant loses it, it will not survive.
The importance of protecting animals cannot be overstated. Wildlife is an important part of the ecosystem and plays a vital role in maintaining ecological balance. However, due to illegal activities such as illegal hunting and **, the population of many wild animals is declining dramatically and is even in danger of extinction.
This not only poses a threat to biodiversity, but also has a serious impact on the survival and development of human beings.
On this special day of International Customs Day, let us walk into the China Customs Museum to feel the cry of life and the weight of life.
Beautiful fur is only beautiful if it is "worn" on an animal.
Except for elephants, no one needs ivory.
There is no buying, no killing.
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Everyone can be a part of animal protection, protecting lives and protecting culture. Public welfare, starting from my heart, starting from small things, we can contribute to the protection of wildlife through understanding, care and respect.
You may feel insignificant, but don't forget that a grain of sand can reflect the stars. Because every effort contains infinite power, just as every exhibit in a museum carries a unique and precious value.
Charity China Network issued a call: the whole society should take active action, cherish life, protect animals, let us work together to create a better future, and create a beautiful world where man and nature live in harmony.
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