China News Service, Lanzhou, March 3 (Feng Zhijun, Zhu Ruiwuliji) The Propaganda Department of Subei Mongolian Autonomous County Party Committee in Jiuquan City, Gansu Province released a message on the 3rd that a The first snow leopard satellite tracking work in China carried out in the Yanchiwan National Nature Reserve in Gansu has achieved results recently. The satellite data obtained by this project opened a new chapter in the behavioral ecology of snow leopards in China.
The snow leopard, known as the "king of the snow mountain", is a national first-class protected animal in China, living near the snow line at an altitude of 3500 to 5500 meters.
This work aims to strengthen the monitoring and research of snow leopard habitat selection, temporal and spatial dynamics and other aspects of behavior and ecology, and to promote the formulation and implementation of snow leopard protection plans.
Starting from December 2020, the Jiuquan Branch of the Gansu Provincial Administration of Giant Panda Qilian Mountain National Park (the Administration of Yanchiwan National Nature Reserve in Gansu), together with Beijing Forestry University, Beijing Zoo, and Jinan Wildlife World, will start snow leopard satellite tracking. Relevant administrative permission plans to capture 2 live wild snow leopards, wear positioning collars, and carry out satellite tracking of snow leopards.
After more than 2 months of patient waiting and continuous monitoring, in early February of this year, the monitoring point notified the successful capture of a snow leopard. The snow leopard capture team in Yanchi Bay quickly went to the capture site. The snow leopard was anesthetized by a professional veterinarian for physical examination. This is a snow leopard The adult female snow leopard is in good physical condition. The staff will measure various physical signs and install the positioning collar before being released into the wild.
It is understood that after nearly a month of tracking the snow leopard, the snow leopard is still active in the nearby areas, and the collar and satellite data are basically normal. This shows that China's first satellite tracking of the snow leopard has been initially successful.
The research team will further analyze the returned satellite data to fully understand the specific situation of the snow leopard's movement, home area and habitat selection in the Yanchi Bay area.
The research team said that this mission has accumulated a lot of work experience for the future scientific capture and location tracking of large and medium-sized carnivores, cultivated a group of snow leopard tracking professionals, and improved and perfected the snow leopards and their tracks in the Yanchi Bay Nature Reserve. Habitat protection system.
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