Recently, when the monitoring staff of the Guzhigesitai Nature Reserve Management Office in Inner Mongolia collected data from 20 infrared cameras installed in the wild, they found 10 kinds of rare wild animals taken from July to September this year, such as lynx, red deer, raccoon, ocelot, Asian badgers, wild boar, Siberian roe deer, chipmunks, Mongolian rabbits, and weasels.
According to the monitors of the reserve, the infrared camera screen found for the first time in the local protected area the "IUCN Red List of Endangered Species" raccoon and the "National Protection beneficial or important economic and scientific research value of the list of terrestrial wild animals" ocelot wild activities of the ocelot, these two animals are also the new distribution record species in the area, reflecting the protection effectiveness since the establishment of the reserve, the ecosystem continues to stabilize and healthy.
Gurigestai National Nature Reserve is located in the northern foothills of the mountains in the south of the Daxing'an Mountains, with an area of 98,931 hectares. The main object of protection is the forest-grassland-wetland composite ecosystem in the northern foothills of the mountains in the south of the Daxing'an Mountains and the species diversity it contains. As of 2013, there are 223 species of vertebrates in 66 families in the reserve, including 165 species of birds, 44 species of mammals, 5 species of reptiles, 3 species of amphibians and 6 species of fish.
In recent years, in order to protect ecological resources, the Management Office of Guzhigestai Nature Reserve has strictly adhered to the ecological red line, continuously strengthened management and protection measures, strengthened the investigation and rectification of various violations in nature reserves, increased the construction management and law enforcement of protected areas, strictly grasped forest fire safety, and implemented measures such as grazing bans, migration relocation, and ecological restoration and governance.
(CCTV reporter Liu Xiaobo, Hu He Muren, Qi Geqi, Hu Mu, Bagna, Cao Yulong)
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Zhang Wu Text Editor: Lu Xiaochuan
Source: Author: CCTV