China News Service, Guangzhou, July 29 (Cheng Jingwei Linyin) According to the Guangdong Forestry Bureau on the 29th, the Qixingkeng Provincial Nature Reserve in Enping, Guangdong has detected two Chinese pangolins activity in the wild through infrared cameras. Since the 1990s, traces of pangolins have been found in this reserve again.
It is reported that the Chinese pangolin is now a national first-class protected animal.
At the beginning of this year, the Management Office of Qixingkeng Provincial Nature Reserve in Enping, Guangdong launched a wildlife infrared camera monitoring project. In April, the infrared camera field control was implemented, and the first batch of data recovery was completed on July 23.
Ocelot.
Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau
In the process of data sorting, the staff of the reserve was pleasantly surprised to find that two infrared cameras had captured 4 nights of Chinese pangolin images. The shooting time was May 9, May 12, May 21, and July, respectively. On the 3rd, it can be seen from the video that pangolins are foraging in the forest.
According to animal experts, there are 2 pangolins detected this time, all of which are adults.
In addition, the infrared camera also recorded the national second-level protected wild animals such as leopard cats, brown-winged cuckoos, and crested eagles, and national "three-have" protected animals such as ferret badger, civet, wild boar, gray-breasted bamboo chicken, and red-billed blue magpie. wild animals.
The predecessor of Enping Qixingkeng Nature Reserve was an electric forest complex mainly for wood production and other production and management activities. The large number of forest felling before severely damaged biodiversity, coupled with over-hunting of Chinese pangolins, people in the 1990s It is almost impossible to find traces of pangolins.
Red-billed blue magpie.
Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau
In 2003, the Qixingkeng Municipal Nature Reserve was established; in 2007, it was promoted to the Qixingkeng Provincial Nature Reserve in Enping, Guangdong.
After more than ten years of strict protection, the forest ecology of Qixingkeng has been gradually restored, and the biodiversity has increased significantly, making signs of pangolin activity reappearing.
(Finish)