The China Conservation Area for Great Bustard at Jinzhou Successfully Rescued a Wounded Vulture | CBCGDF Applauds for the CCAfa Director
2018/12/24 17:03:00 本站

In January 2018, CBCGDF received an application from Yu Lian, a volunteer from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, and formally established the “China Conservation Area for Great Bustard at Jinzhou". Its director Yu Lian began to pay attention to the ecological protection status of Jinzhou in 2014. For the fourth year in a row, the grey cranes and great bustards whose wintering population in Jinzhou were tracked soundly. Jinzhou City is the traditional wintering place for great bustards. Every year, around 50 great bustards spend the winter in Jinzhou. According to the observations of the volunteers, usually, great bustards arrived in Jinzhou every November and flew away in March of the following year.

 

After nearly a year of development, the China Conservation Area for Great Bustard at Jinzhou (CCAfa) rescue station has been basically completed. The volunteers of this site insisted on conducting patrols, investigating the current status of the local populations, and cooperating with relevant departments to carry out anti-poaching advocacy and activities to actively rescue endangered birds. And actively promote local villagers to become volunteers and help protect the local development on the ground.

 

In early December, the new office of this CCAfa site came with an “uninvited guest”: a national secondary protected animal – vulture. Director Yu Lian immediately led the volunteers to help. To help the exhausted and dehydrated vulture, the volunteers fed it fresh beef to help restore it. At the same time, volunteers also developed a semi-human intervention assistance program from their responsibility and caring. The advantage of this program is to minimize the degree of human disturbance to the vulture without affecting its natural wildness and ability to survive in the wild. After six days of manual feeding, the condition of this vulture improved significantly. Volunteers also hope to wear GPS tracker to record flight trajectories for scientific research.

 

To everyone's surprise, on the ninth day of the artificial rescue, the recovered vulture recovered flew away by itself. Although volunteers were a bit regretted not to wear it a tracker, the overall satisfaction of everyone is that this time, based on the premise of controlling human disturbance, the rescue of the national second-class protection of animal vulture was relatively successful. CBCGDF is especially grateful to all the caring ones who participated in this rescue. Nowadays, more and more people pay attention to bird protection and biodiversity conservation. Then it is not difficult to achieve true and harmonious coexistence between mankind and nature.


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The rescue station


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Director Yu Lian fed the wounded vulture


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(Photo credit: Yu Lian)


Original Chinese article:

http://www.cbcgdf.org/NewsShow/4855/7115.html