China News Service, Nanchang, October 26 (Li Yunhan) On the 26th, the reporter learned from the Jiangxi Forestry Bureau that since last winter, the Poyang Lake District UN Protection Committee has destroyed 2,100 mu of illegal cofferdams and rescued more than 200 migratory birds.

　　Since last winter, the Poyang Lake District UN Protection Committee has carried out in-depth special operations "Pohu Sword 2019".

According to statistics, more than 320 joint law enforcement inspections have been carried out in various regions, more than 4,100 people have been dispatched, and more than 160 farmer’s markets, more than 380 restaurants and hotels, and 20 wild animal breeding farms have been inspected.

A flock of winter migratory birds inhabit the Maying Lake Wetland in Duchang, Poyang Lake, Jiangxi.

(China News Network Data Map) Photo by Fu Jianbin

　　During the inspection, a total of 8 illegal restaurants were investigated and 14 stalls suspected of selling wild animals were warned; a total of more than 17,000 meters of "sky net" and sticky nets were removed, more than 200 migratory birds were rescued and released; illegal cofferdams were destroyed 5 Offices, covering an area of ​​2,100 mu; handled 17 criminal cases, 11 administrative cases, and imposed 28 administrative penalties.

　　Qiu Shuiwen, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Jiangxi Forestry Bureau, stated in the province’s afforestation, forest fire prevention, pine wood nematode disease prevention and control, and wetland migratory bird protection work video and telephone conference that at present, the Yangtze River Economic Belt is "together to protect the Under the background of the comprehensive ban on fishing in the basin, there are still problems of illegal cofferdam construction of fish ponds in the wetlands outside Poyang Lake in some places.

At the same time, there are still "blind spots" in the protection and management of migratory birds, especially in the hinterland of the inter-county border lakes and the beaches of the outer lakes. The phenomenon of criminals using "sky nets" to catch birds and "poisonous baits" to kill migratory birds has not been completely eliminated.

　　It is understood that counties and districts along the lake have invested and increased protection funds to build ecological patrol teams, remote monitoring systems, and purchase infrared high-definition probes, amphibious vehicles and drones to carry out patrol work.

For example, Hukou County allocated 1.08 million yuan for patrol funds and established an ecological patrol team composed of 33 members of the rivers and lakes (Yangtze River, Poyang Lake).

Jinxian County invested 2.46 million yuan to build a remote monitoring system and built 15 infrared high-definition probes in the hinterland of the lake area.

The newly built area will increase the protection fund from 500,000 yuan to 900,000 yuan, and use amphibious vehicles and drones to carry out patrol work.

　　Poyang Lake, located in the north of Jiangxi Province and the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is the largest freshwater lake in China, an internationally important wetland, and the largest wintering migratory bird habitat in Asia.

From October to March of the following year, more than 95% of the world’s white cranes, more than 80% of the Eastern white stork, and more than 70% of the white-naped cranes live through the winter in the Poyang Lake Reserve.

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