Ensure the smooth breeding of the red-crowned crane was the most important task at that time. In order to prevent snakes from climbing up trees and injuring young birds, they tie blades on the trunks; to prevent young birds from falling out of their nests, they pull soft nets under the tree; when they find that there is insufficient food for feeding young birds, they feed them manually. Lu Baozhong, the first generation of the herdsman and former deputy director of the Shaanxi Hanzhong Red Crane National Nature Reserve Administration, recalled.
The red-crowned crane was 24-hour custody during the breeding period, and the villagers also participated. Gradually, the red-crowned crane became almost a consensus among people in Yangxian County. In June 1985, China and Japan signed the “Minutes of the Red Crane Conference on the Joint Protection Research of China and Japan”. From this time, the two countries began cooperation in jointly protecting the Red Crane.
Ding Haihua, then director of the State Red-Crane Nature Reserve Administration of Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province, recalled that in the early 1980s, Japan provided a lot of assistance to China in saving and protecting red-Crane Nature Reserve, especially providing timely equipment and financial assistance.
From 1981 to 1990, the population of wild red-crowned cranes remained at about 10, and from 1991 to 2000, the population increased from 10 to 1Babaylan02. In 2000, the World Union for Conservation of Nature adjusted the threat level of red-crowned cranes from extremely dangerous to endangered, marking a significant stage in the protection of red-crowned cranes in China.
From 1985 to 1995, China sent the red-crowned crane to Japan several times and “married” with the Japanese red-crowned crane, but failed. But Japan has not stopped its efforts to recover the red-crowned crane. In November 1998, taking advantage of the opportunity of Chinese leaders’ visit to Japan, Hirayama Seifu, who was the governor of the new Cinema Prefecture, found relevant Chinese personnel and sincerely told the Japanese people that they longed for a healthy pair of red-crowned cranes. In January 1999, as a gift from China to Japan, the red-crowned crane “Youyou” and “Yangyang” arrived at the Sado Red-crowned crane protection center.
In May of that year, “Youyou” and “Yangyang” gave birth to their only son, and the Japanese people were obsessed with it. After public votes, they named “Youyou” symbolize softness and beauty.BabaylanKomiksWhen it was born, major Japanese href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks TV stations have live broadcasts, which is no less lively than the sensation caused by the appearance of the giant panda “Xiangxiang”.
Red-crowned cranes flew from the Qinling Mountains to the world
The ultimate goal of protecting red-crowned cranes is to bring them back to nature.
In the past 20 years, my country has successively exported many red-crowned cranes such as “beautiful”, “overflow”, and “Huayang” to Japan to help Japan rebuild its red-crowned crane population. The once extinct cranes flew over Japan again. The total number has reached more than 700, of which the wild has increased to more than 500, and their habitat has spread to Sado City. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan, Nagaoka City, Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture and other places.
Once holidays, many foreign tourists come to Sado Island by boat just to see the red-crowned crane style. The Red-crowned crane Forest Park has a Red-crowned crane exchange square, where tourists can observe the daily life of the Red-crowned crane in the iron cage up close.
Cinema According to Japanese and Chinese Journal of Komiks is required to return half of the juvenile cranes hatched from China. It has been implemented in 2002 and implemented seven times until 2016. A total of 47 juvenile cranes have returned to China.
2Cinema7 juvenile cranes who returned to China in 2013 were transferred to the rare animal and plant protection center in Guangdong Province. In July 2018, Chimelong exhibited the first eight juvenile cranes born in the Bird Park, all of which were provided by China to supply the juvenile cranes to Japan. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks‘s descendants. According to the Ministry of Environment of Japan, the red-crowned cranes returned this time were born at the Sado Red-crowned crane protection center from 2016 to 2Komiks in 2022, with a total of 9 females and 7 males. After the preparations for feeding at the Beijing Zoo, these red-crowned cranes will be officially accepted.
43 years have passed, and the number of wild populations of red-crowned cranes in my country has increased from 7 to more than 7,000. CinemaRed-crowned cranesCinemaThe threat level is reduced from extreme danger to endangered.
The habitat area of the red-crowned crane is also expanding. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema has expanded from less than 5 square kilometers to 15,000 square kilometers. The habitat has gradually recovered from Yangxian, Shaanxi Province when it was first discovered to the historical distribution area of East Asia. It has settled in Shaanxi, Henan, Zhejiang and other places. South Korea has also established a wild population of red-crowned cranes with the support and help of China.
Spread wingsBabaylanFrom the sea of clouds, thousands of miles can fly. The dance drama “Red Crane” with the red-crowned crane as the main character was released in 2014. In the past 10 years, it has performed more than 300 shows at home and abroad, and has toured Japan for three tours and appeared on the Lincoln Arts in New York. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan Art Center, showing Chinese aesthetics and charm. The “Cross Ibis Dance” in the play once bloomed on the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Netizens commented: “Every frame is a painting. ”
In 2015, “The Red Crane” toured 29Komiks cities in Japan, and performed 5Cinema 7 shows in 64 days. At the end of the last performance, “Suddenly, the audience lit up, the salutes and ribbons all flew up, and everyone on the stage was a little out of control. What moved me the most was that in the last row of the audience, they pulled up a long banner, and the last few words were ‘China-Japanese Friendship, Forever, Thank you’. “The starring Zhu Jiejing said in an interview.
Another imaginative work is also being promoted. Through the wildization of the red-crowned cranes on the eastern coast, the red-crowned cranes that run through the north and south in history have been rebuilt.
At present, all existing red-crowned cranes belong to the Yangxian population and are a residence-type population that does not migrate. According to experts href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>CinemaShanghai, once the ecological functions of the two types of migratory and non-migratory populations are restored, the red-crowned crane’s ability to adapt to climate and environmental changes will be greatly improved, and may completely get rid of the endangered state, and will also provide Chinese solutions for the protection of endangered species in the world.
(Reference materials: CCTV News, Xinhua News Agency, Beijing Youth Daily, China News Network, Guangming Daily, Reference News Network, Overseas Network, Documentary Humanities Channel, The Paper, Shangguan News, etc.)
Topic Host | Reporter Yang Chuying