On October 31st, the Seventh Lecture of Luojia Xinglin Humanities Forum –Protecting Nature by Image was held in WUSM, about 120 teachers and students of WUSM attended this lecture. Gao Baoyan was the presenter, who was the senior reporter of Changjiang Daily, the alumna of Wuhan University, the director of the Studio “Images of Nature” of Changjiang Daily, the deputy director of Protection Zone of The Wildlife Conservation Society, Hubei Province, and deputy secretary general of Wuhan Baiji Conservation Foundation. Jiang Ming, Deputy Secretary of Party Committee of WUSM, hosted this lecture.
Gao Baoyan said, “Doctors are at the frontier to protect the lives of human beings, and they are the people to save lives and fight against diseases. Reporters are the lookouts of the society and the recorders of the times. Both doctors and reporters should be supported by their conscientiousness, compassion and benevolence.” She narrated moving stories about Baijis, Yangtze finless porpoises, Chinese sturgeons, Yangtze alligators and other rare animals by vivid images and simple language. Baiji was a kind of unique Chinese aquatic mammal only living in Yangtze River, and it was called “Panda in Yangtze River”. On July 14th, 2002, the “Goddess of Yangtze River” –Qiqi, the last living Baiji, was found lying with eyes closed on the bottom of the pool in Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This was not only an extinction of one species, but also an extinction of one division of animal classification by human beings’ destruction. Since then, she paid more attention on other Yangtze endangered species. She said that Yangtze finless porpoises also had happiness, love, sorrow and responsibility; during a process of capturing Yangtze finless porpoises for health examination, the male Yangtze finless porpoises caught humans’ eyes deliberately in order to protect the pregnant female ones. At the same time, male Chinese sturgeons were also under huge influences of environmental pollution; as a result, every year many male ones could not find mates. And the wild Yangtze alligators were also critically endangered, which was not an optimistic situation. The images of these lovely animals and the situation they were faced with made the audience at present very moved. Then Gao Baoyan told everyone to pay close attention to endangered species and protect the environment.
In the end, Jiang Ming thanked Gao Baoyan for her excellent lecture, saying that Gao Baoyan traveled around day after day to protect Yangtze endangered animals only because of her love and reverence for lives, medical students also should be like her and always remember the pledges of medical students to treat natural environment and future career with love.