国内英语资讯:Feature: Bird guardians Spring Festival on the Yellow River wetlands_时事

国内英语资讯:Feature: Bird guardians Spring Festival on the Yellow River wetlands

In recent years, more and more like-minded local residents have gathered around Song. Now the team has more than 300 volunteers. More and more people, as well as public departments, have been joining the cause to fight hard against poaching.

To Song's joy, Chinese society is growing in awareness of the importance of species and habitat protection, while those who choose to eat wildlife to show off their wealth have become a rare minority.

Song was delighted to find that China's building of an ecological civilization as a national strategy and the protection of species have been obtaining positive results.

This winter, a record number of migratory birds flew back to the Changyuan Wetland Reserve, including grey cranes, taiga bean geese, greylags, etc.

"About 180 great bustards have been observed wintering at the reserve, and by spring when they are about to head north, we expect the total number to be around 200," Song confirmed with Xinhua reporter over the phone on Saturday.

The nicknamed "Bustard Guardian" firmly believes that as long as the Yellow River wetlands are attentively protected to preserve the wintering home for the migratory birds, where wildlife can stay safe from poaching and disturbances and live in peace, the vigorous biodiversity of the mother river will recover.

And the great bustards, a symbol of the king's diligent peasants recorded as early as in the Book of Songs (1100 to 600 B.C.), can continue to coexist harmoniously with the Chinese nation, Song said.