Please leave nothing but footprints.
Wandering on a "donkey friend forum", I found that many people have been talking about the Niuback Mountain in Ya 'an, Sichuan Province for a while. Videos, photos and travel notes emerge one after another, which are the results left by the hikers after they "conquered" Niuback Mountain.
Niuback Mountain, a branch of Erlang Mountain, is the divide between Qingyi River and Dadu River. Its peak is 3,600 meters above sea level. It got its name in late 2009 because a large rock protruding from a cliff looks like an ox's head and a long and slender ridge looks like an ox's back. Niuback Mountain is known as "China's largest viewing platform", "the top route for donkey lovers", "the paradise for photography enthusiasts", is the best photography holy land.
I don't have that much time to wander around in the wild, and I don't have those advanced equipment, so I only have to feast my eyes on the forum. But a recent post made me feel like a lump in my throat: On the winding mountain road to Niuback Mountain, a dying little yak lies in the middle of the road, with its eyes wide open and unsatisfied, and its emaciated look is malnourished. The owner of the cow is a middle-aged man. He looks at the calf on the ground with a look of helplessness. It is said that the young yak was killed by plastic bags discarded by tourists.
It is a good thing that the hiker friends came to Niuback Mountain for sightseeing, but they discarded the plastic bags randomly, while the young yak had no judgment at all, swallowed the plastic bags together when eating grass, and as a result, his stomach was full of plastic bags and he starved to death. The owner of the cattle raised more than 90 yaks on the mountain, and now there are only about 70 yaks left. I am afraid that many of the deaths of the yaks are related to garbage. Unable to cry, the owner of the cattle left the dead yaks in the middle of the road to stop tourists from crossing. He asked everyone to comment, who should bear the responsibility? I don't know what the littering hikers think.
Some people start littering as soon as they step out of the house. And the practice of those who scribble on the tourist spots is even more shameful.
Last year, I took a trip to the Bamboo Sea in southern Sichuan, which is the kingdom of the green bamboo and has all kinds of bamboo. But good bamboo pole, but full of visitors with a knife to mark the word marks, crooked, especially dazzling. "So-and-so to this tour" is the most common, there is also engraved with "so-and-so I love you for life", really do not know how such a tour is worthy of remembrance, more do not know how such "love" lasts a lifetime! As the bamboo grew up, the writing appeared even uglier. It actually etched its owner's name on the shame stick forever.
In some zoos are also like this, the management often use eye-catching words to remind you: "Please don't throw plastic bags to animals" or "Please don't throw food to animals at will", but we still see that some visitors turn a blind eye to the rules, "cast and happy". This kind of behavior is really chilling. Dear travelers, in the city streets, in the green mountains and rivers, please leave nothing but footprints (of course, except the grass that is forbidden to tread), really, leave nothing. In my opinion, this is the basic "travel responsibility" of a donkey friend, and even the basic principle of a person. (Peng Zhongfu)