"Where'd you get the turtle?" On 19 January, citizens released a video stating that, while he was walking by Chengdu's Fork Lake, he had found many small turtles by the lake, many of which were still in number, and had been sent online to interview netizens because it was unclear what species they were.
On the morning of the 19th, the journalist contacted Mr. Ouyang, a video photographer, who told the reporters that he had discovered the turtles at noon on 18th, when he was walking around the lake, that he had just started out of curiosity and sent news of the discovery of the turtles to the circle of friends, without expecting more attention, and asked them where they came from. Are there any ecological impacts?
Citizens found a suspected Brazilian turtle by Lake Triangular.
According to Mr. Ouyang's description, when he filmed these turtles, he found that their heads were not large, and each five metres apart by the lake, similar little turtles were found, “They had red elliptical-shaped tattoos on both sides of the head, yellow on the back, floating on the water, and similar turtles were seen at peace”.
He scanned the turtle with his mobile phone software, suggesting it was a "Brazilian turtle", and Mr. Ouyang retrieved information about the Brazilian turtle online, which he then sent to the Internet about the discovery of a lot of turtles on the lake. Mr. Ouyang said that the Fork Lake was a freshwater lake that had not normally seen so many turtles, and he assumed that they could be released.
If it is artificially released, would it have an impact on the ecological environment? The assistant professor of the Institute of Life Sciences of the College of Teachers of Uejiang told journalists that Brazilian turtles, fully known as Brazilian red ear turtles, born in the central part of the United States, were among the world ' s recognized biokillers and had been classified by the World Conservation Organization as one of the more than 100 most destructive species, and by several countries as one of the dangerous alien invasive species. China has also included alien species, which were introduced into our interior through Hong Kong in the 1980s, and have not only gained absolute advantage in the market for just over 20 years, from the south to the north, but also recorded wild discoveries and potential warnings of ecological invasion.
In her view, Brazilian turtles have such characteristics as fast-growing, adaptable and growing faster than native turtles, with a greater amount of food, preferring to eat live baits, with small fish, shrimp, mudslides, frogs, earthworms, weeds, plums, herds and rice in her field, “Brazilian turtles are fierce, more capable of feeding than native turtles, and sometimes even large turtles eat small turtles, or eat native turtles”.
There are no natural enemies of Brazilian turtles at present, which means that Brazilian turtles will breed indefinitely, and some places may soon experience another ecological disaster as a result of their rapid reproduction. In order to preserve the ecological balance, she said, so as not to make Brazilian turtles an ecological “killer”, she called on everyone not to buy Brazilian turtles as pets, not to throw live Brazilian turtles into the field or water bodies, and not to let Brazilian turtles live as living animals.