Recently, the monitoring team of Henan Provincial Wildlife Conservation Center and the staff of Baotianman Nature Reserve in Nanzhao County found the black stork, a national first-class protected wild animal, in the Baihe River Basin, when carrying out a survey of national key wildlife resources such as black stork, which is the first population of black stork, a summer migratory bird, found in Nanyang City.
It is understood that the black stork is an endangered bird in the world, with about 1,000 of them in China. Due to its scarcity, the black stork is known as the "giant panda among birds" and has been listed as a first-class key protected wild animal in the mainland. The black stork has a graceful body and light movements, a red beak and legs, and a black back, and its feathers change a variety of colors depending on the light.
In October 2023, when the survey team members investigated along the Baihe River Basin, they discovered the black stork, a national first-class protected wild animal, for the first time, and only the black stork was captured at that time.
Deng Dajun, head of the conservation department of the Henan Provincial Wildlife Conservation Center, said: "About six black storks were found in the Nanzhao Baotianman Reserve, the black stork is a national first-class key protected wild animal, the black stork is an indicator species of good and bad environment, extremely picky about the environment, the black stork can settle down in the Nanzhao Baotianman Reserve, which proves that the ecological environment of the Nanzhao Baotianman Reserve continues to improve." ”
Green ecology is the background color of a city, with the continuous promotion of the construction of ecological civilization in our county, Baotianman Nature Reserve has attracted a large number of migratory birds to settle here. The arrival of birds not only beautifies the city, but also makes the biodiversity of our county increasingly rich, and plays a song of life in which man and nature coexist in harmony.
Li Gao, deputy director of the state-owned Nanzhao Forest Farm, said: "Nanzhao Baotianman Reserve is located in the eastern section of the Qinling Mountains, the southern foot of Funiu Mountain, in the climate it belongs to the transition zone between the north and south of the continent, wild animal and plant resources are very rich, according to the investigation, there are more than 2,900 species of wild plants in the reserve, more than 380 kinds of wild animals, in recent years, with the strengthening of the management and control of resources in the reserve, the improvement of the ecological environment, the scientific research personnel and forest rangers of the reserve have found in the reserve to yew, green willow, The rare wild plants represented by the Qinling fir and the rare wild animals represented by the giant salamander, black stork and golden eagle met and greeted each other unexpectedly from the forest rangers and scientific researchers in the reserve, which is enough to prove that the ecological and environmental protection work of the reserve and even Nanzhao County has achieved great results in recent years. ”
All-media reporter: Wang Lu Xiaofeng