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Eight years of walking 70,000 kilometers, only to guard the migratory bird migration channel 丨 vision
In late October, the autumn breeze on the Leizhou Peninsula of Zhanjiang gradually rose and began to cool down. At this time of year, tens of thousands of migratory birds begin to pass through the area.
Chen Jing walked on the freshly reclaimed sweet potato field with leather shoes in one hand and bird cage in the other. There were several injured fire doves in the cage, which he prepared to take home to feed and release after recovery.
Guanchang Village, Jijia Town, is located in the western part of the Leizhou Peninsula. Passing through the dense eucalyptus forest, you will see an open field crisscrossed with rice paddies and wetlands. Chen Jing, 59, took off his shoes and socks, barefoot and cat waist, and quietly sneaked in the half-human-high barren grass wetland.
In guanchang village of Jijia Town, Chen Jingzheng chased a bird catcher, but because the other party was familiar with the terrain, he was unable to catch it.
Not far ahead, several fire-spotted doves with ropes tied to their feet flew into the sky, and then they were dragged back. After several repetitions, soon a group of fire doves were attracted by their companions, and suddenly a large net was covered, and a middle-aged man in a straw hat came out of the haystack, ready to catch the fire dove trapped in the net.
Two fire doves that serve as bait, their eyes are sewn shut, and long threads are tied to their feet, which are used by criminals to attract other fire doves.
"Don't run!" Chen Jing jumped up and ran forward at a rapid pace, the bird catcher was stunned, and then fled in a hurry, because the other party was familiar with the terrain, after chasing hundreds of meters in the wetland, Chen Jing finally failed to catch the bird catcher.
Bird catchers are highly vigilant and flee early, leaving hookahs and water bottles in the haystacks.
A total of eight fire-spotted doves were captured, each of which could only make a profit of nearly 100 yuan, which is a "three haves" protected bird. In the process of counting the scene, Chen Jing found that there were still a large number of nets hidden in the surrounding grass, hundreds of meters long, and at night, the criminals would stand up to catch birds. So he immediately called Dai Zhi, director of the Houlang Border Police Station, and asked for support.
Chen Jing rescues a group of fire-spotted doves that have fallen into the bird's net.
Volunteer bird ranger Chen Jing and police officer Dai Zhi released the captured fire-spotted dove.
About half an hour later, Dai Zhi and his colleagues rushed to the scene and summoned the cadres of the village of Guanchang to collect and destroy the hunting tools and release the captured birds. Over the years, Chen Jing and his bird protection partners have established a good relationship with the local public security organs, and everyone has cooperated with tacit understanding to jointly complete a lot of work to protect migratory birds. The next day, due to the discovery of a large number of bird-catching behaviors with nets in its jurisdiction, the Jijia town government gave all the cadres of the "two committees" of Guanchang Village a penalty of suspending their work for one month and suspending the payment of living allowances for one month.
In the village of Guanchang of Jijia Town, Chen Jing and the police cleared the bird catching tools.
In Haolang Village, Jijia Town, Chen Jing and the police burned the bird catching tools confiscated.
Chen Jing has been doing this kind of migratory bird protection work for eight years. In the past, Jijia Town was economically backward, and some backward-thinking peasants took risks and used fishing nets and shotguns to kill migratory birds. Around 2013, CCTV and Nanfang Daily successively exposed the illegal and criminal acts of killing and eating migratory birds in Jijia Town, which caused strong repercussions in the local area.
In Butou Village, Lemin Town, Suixi County, which borders Jijia Town, Chen Jing rescues a black capuchin that is entangled in a bird's net.
At night, a bird net in the field is waiting for the birds to crash into, and the phenomenon of catching the "three haves" to protect birds and pulling the net still occurs from time to time.
At night, in tianshen village in Jijia Town, the police burned the confiscated bird nets.
Chen Jing, who works at the town health center, decided to become a volunteer bird guard, and he and his partner Xu Yuexin began to patrol the mountain farmland in the local area, supervise various bird catching behaviors, rescue and release captured migratory birds, and walk nearly 70,000 kilometers in eight years. Chen Jing, who is not highly educated, learns about various migratory birds, encounters sneers, and has also been intimidated and threatened, but he cannot shake his determination in the slightest.
Jijia Town is located in the western part of the Leizhou Peninsula, where tens of thousands of migratory birds pass through it every year for the winter.
Snake eagles, national second-level protected animals, every autumn, a large number of birds of prey fly over Jijia Town.
Nowadays, with the joint efforts of the local government, the non-governmental bird love association and the media, the local people's awareness of protecting migratory birds has been continuously improved, and the hunting and killing of rare migratory birds in Jijia Town has been basically eliminated, but the phenomenon of catching "three haves" to protect birds and pulling nets still occurs from time to time. Recently, in the one-month monitoring of transit birds of prey in Jijia Town, the Zhanjiang Bird Love Association recorded a total of 26 species of raptors and 3193 birds, including three first-class protected animals of white-bellied sea eagle, black eagle and white-shouldered eagle.
In the middle of the pond, two black-winged sandpipers are foraging.
In late October, in Jijia Town, Leizhou City, Zhanjiang, Chen Jing observed a group of herons foraging on the seashore in the distance.
"Since I remember when I was a child, every year after the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, there are many migratory birds in our Ji family, many of which cannot be named, and my cousin and I often go to the fields and the sea to observe them..." To this day, Chen Jing often recalls the scenes of his childhood, so that his children and grandchildren can also see the spectacular scenes of migratory birds overwintering, which is his greatest wish.
【Video/Image/Text】Zhang Youqiong Yao Zhihao Gu Dawei
【Editing】 Luo Binhao
【Design】Tan Wei Pan Jie
[Proofreading] Ju Weiqiang
【Review】Zhang Youqiong
【Author】 Zhang Youqiong; Yao Zhihao; Luo Binhao; Gu Dawei; Tan Wei; Pan Jie
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