Wufeng, Hubei: Wild Tufted Deer Trapped in Sinkhole, Police and Civilians Join Hands for Rescue

  China News Service, Yichang, September 18 (Chen Mengjuan, Luo Jinyan, Dong Xiaobin) A rare wild tufted deer stumbled into a sewage pond in Niuzhuang Village, Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, Hubei Province on the 17th. The local forestry department organized rescuers to rescue it. , And finally helped the tufted deer jump out of the pool to get out of trouble and return to nature smoothly.

Photo courtesy of wild tufted deer trapped in cesspool Wufeng police

  At about 11 o'clock on the 17th, the Niuzhuang Police Station of the Public Security Bureau of Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County received a call from the people in the area to ask for help, saying that a wild animal was trapped in the sewage pond next to the 9th group mixing station in Niuzhuang Village. The animal could not jump on its own due to the high wall of the sewage pond. go out.

According to observations, the animal may have been trapped for 1 to 2 days, hoping to be rescued.

  After receiving the request for help, the director Wang Jian quickly led the civilian auxiliary police to the scene and immediately contacted the Niuzhuang Forestry Management Station of the County Forestry Bureau.

After arriving at the scene, the auxiliary civilian police quickly organized personnel to maintain order on the scene, rescued the wild animals trapped in the sewage tank, and carefully reminded the people on the scene not to frighten the wild animals.

  During the rescue, in order to avoid the trapped wild animals from being frightened again, Wang Jian arranged for Yi Xiaobo, a member of the Niuzhuang Township Guardian to go down to the sewage tank with Zhou Qi, a local crowd, and smashed the middle partition wall of the sewage tank with a hammer. Slowly guide the trapped wild animals through the hole in the wall to the corner of the pool with higher terrain, and finally jump out of the pool and get out of the trap.

Rescuers smashed the wall of the cesspool to carry out the rescue. Photo courtesy of Wufeng Police

  Recognized by the staff of Niuzhuang Forestry Management Station, the wild animal is a tufted deer, which is a second-level national key protected animal.

Tufted deer is a small deer and is a herbivorous animal.

  After careful inspection by rescuers, the tufted deer was not injured and was in good spirits.

After communicating with the county wildlife protection and management station, Li Bo, head of the Niuzhuang Forestry Management Station, decided to release it to the mountains and forests on the spot. In the end, the tufted deer returned to nature smoothly.

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