Ma Xirong observes wild birds at The Kangba Noor National Wetland Park in Kangbao County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, on July 6.
The remaining gull is a national first-class wild protected animal. Kangbao County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Gulls". At present, more than 8,000 remaining gulls are breeding and roosting in the Kangba noor National Wetland Park in Kangbao County.
Ma Xirong, 56, a surgeon in Kangbao County, began working on wild bird conservation and rescue in 2009. In 2018, Kangbao County established the Relict Gull Protection Association, with Ma Xirong as the president, leading everyone to rescue and treat more than 1,300 wild animals, including the remaining gulls, and driving the formation of a good local trend of protecting wild animals and loving the natural ecology.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Luo Xuefeng
Ma Xirong (right) introduces the rescue of the remaining gulls at the Kangba noor National Wetland Park Mission Center in Kangbao County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, on July 6.
This is a remaining gull photographed on July 6 in Kangba noor National Wetland Park, Kangbao County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.
On July 6, at the Wildlife Rescue Station of the Relic Gull Conservation Association in Kangbao County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, Ma Xirong inspected the injuries of Hongyan that residents had just rescued.
On July 6, at the Wildlife Rescue Station of the Relict Gull Conservation Association in Kangbao County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, Ma Xirong fed food to the gulls.
Ma Xirong inspects rescued vultures at the Wildlife Rescue Station of the Relict Gull Conservation Association in Kangbao County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, on July 6.
Ma Xirong (right) and staff feed rescued eagle owls at the Wildlife Rescue Station of the Relic Gull Conservation Association in Kangbao County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, on July 6.
(Editor-in-charge: Dong Chunping)