Jian Xu's character story.

Jian Xu is a freelance photographer. He traveled almost every corner of China and took countless photos. In his photographic works, natural scenery and local customs account for only a small part. More often, his lens captures those wild species unique to China, the most endangered and rarely noticed species. It is what Jian Xu has been trying to do in recent years to promote people to protect these precious natural heritages in China through its own image and actions.

So, under the lens of Jian Xu, people saw the Chinese white dolphin in Sanniang Bay, Guangxi, the Asian elephant in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, the parrot in Simao, the karst gecko, the magnolia in Wenshan, Yunnan, the stinking frog in Wuchuan, Guizhou, the Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze River, the Chinese alligator in Changxing Nature Reserve, Zhejiang, and the only four turtles left in the world ... Most of these creatures are endangered or unknown, and some have not even been described in detail so far. Through careful desk work, Jian Xu went to the places where these creatures were recorded, looked for them, observed their living environment and habits, and took pictures of them. After that, the shooting results will be transformed into reports, which will be known and paid attention to by the public through magazines, networks, newspapers, lectures and other forms; At the same time, submit a report to the relevant departments of the local government and put forward protection suggestions.

Since 2008, many senior wildlife photographers and conservationists, led by Jian Xu, have jointly initiated the IBE image biodiversity survey, aiming at recording and displaying the biodiversity in China. They independently innovated and created a biodiversity survey method, which mainly used digital photos and videos of wild animals and plants with scientific data for biodiversity survey, evaluation, monitoring and publicity. This method, which they call IBE, can not only provide scientists and governments with scientific data on biodiversity, but also provide a lot of wonderful video materials for public protection and publicity. They have conducted 13 IBE surveys for TNC, FFI, Xishuangbanna National Reserve, Guangxi Environmental Protection Department and Tibet Tourism Co., Ltd. in seven areas in southwest Guangxi, Meili Snow Mountain in Yunnan, Laojun Mountain in Lijiang, Xishuangbanna, Shiqu in Sichuan and Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon in Tibet. After nearly 300 days of field work, they have taken more than100000 wonderful pictures and pictures. These images and scientific data play an important role in biodiversity protection in these areas.

This is Jian Xu's job. A few years ago, he quit his job in chinese national geography magazine, giving up his job with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, specializing in the shooting and protection of wild animals, and set up an organization, hoping to promote the protection of biodiversity in China through his own and team's shooting and protection actions. In his view, such work is "more meaningful".

In the process of filming, Jian Xu can always see all kinds of human destruction to the environment, which makes him worried. "Under the social background of rapid economic development, we always look very pale when talking about protecting animals. We know that we are powerless, but at least we understand this truth, and we have the responsibility to call for and promote protection. It is better to do it than not to do it, so you must do it whenever possible. "

Jian Xu said, "If we go to the places we visited ten years ago, many animals that were easy to see before are now rare. Almost all wild animals, the first reaction after seeing people is to rush, because their parents or grandparents are likely to die at the hands of human beings. They were taught from an early age that once they saw a human with two legs, they had to run wild. " Xu Jian used this example to tell the public that protecting animals is more about doing people's ideological work, which is more important than directly protecting animals. "In our endless pursuit of a better life, we should stop and take time to think about how to enrich our hearts and how to make our descendants live happily on this earth for a long time."