CBCGDF volunteers Suggest Strengthening Wildlife Protection to Curb Poaching in Winter

 Since the beginning of winter, the temperature in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province has remained below minus ten degrees Celsius for many days, and the snow on the ground is very thick. Wild animals that need to find food in the winter will inevitably leave deep or shallow footprints on the snow, sometimes even a large area of dense footprints.

 


In order to strengthen the protection of wild animals in this special season, volunteers from CBCGDF Harbin Songha Wetland Reserve and Fenghuangshan Black Bear Reserve have been patrolling in the wild despite the cold wind. During the patrol, the volunteers took photos of a large number of wild animal footprints, providing first-hand research data for understanding the wild animal resources and protection in the patrol area.

 

In the Phoenix Mountain Nature Reserve, Harbin Sun Island Wetland and other places, volunteers have seen footprints of large wild animals such as red deer, small groups of roe deer, and wild boars, as well as footprints of small and medium-sized wild animals such as badgers, weasels, and rodents, as well as footprints of resident birds such as pheasants, magpies, and crows...

 

Under the guidance of the CBCGDF research laboratory, these wildlife traces can vividly reproduce the winter life of local wildlife.

 

For volunteers who protect wild animals, seeing these footprints is a great relief, but at the same time, these footprints are full of risks: they can easily induce the greed of poachers. This is why volunteers need to patrol in the snow.

 

The volunteers immediately removed the chain wire snares and handed them over to the local forestry police for disposal. The volunteers hope that in such a heavy snowy day in the Northeast, the relevant departments will also overcome difficulties, increase the protection of wild animals, and curb the emergence of winter poaching.

 

Original Chinese Article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kEKzF4l11BTsbqzVL4yBlQ

Translator: Maggie

Editor: Maggie

Checked by: Richard     

Contact: v10@cbcgdf.org; +8617319454776

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