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country by eliminating 4 main pests in the region. The hit list included rats, mosquitoes, flies and sparrows. The feathered little things got the most from the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire. They were starved to death - they were not allowed to land, they made noise, they destroyed their nests. The children did this with particular enthusiasm (photo 4 - a poster motivating children to exterminate sparrows). In just one year, almost 2 billion sparrows were exterminated. And in the same year, hordes of insect pests descended on the fields of the country; other birds could not cope with controlling their numbers. The harvest residues were not enough for everyone, famine killed from 10 to 30 million people, the Chinese had to urgently import birds from Canada and the USSR. The featured guest for this article is the Western Black Rhinoceros. Excessive hunting has seriously decimated their numbers, and poaching has completely finished them off. Since 2011, the subspecies has been declared extinct (photo 5). Are the days of this obscurantism over? Well, partially passed. We managed to save the Amur tigers; there are already a lot of them. The Chinese restored pandas so much that they were even removed from the Red Book. But in poor countries they shoot and shoot. - - - - - We have a huge group, which is 11 years old and there are many zoologists who write tons of text every day from the field in which they are specialists. Due to VK’s failed policy towards authors, all this, unfortunately, rests only on rare advertising and your support. You can support the stability of our nervous system with a minimum subscription of 100 rubles per month. You can request support directly through the button in this post. Thank you! 🏀 Hit the hoop and get an NFT gift — https://t.me/BasketbolX_bot