The remaining gull Bian Zhenwen was photographed in Kangba noor, Kangbao County
Combanol: The safe choice for the widow
"The Hometown of China's Gulls", this is the proudest honor for Kangbao people.
"The remaining gulls are national key protected wild animals, endangered migratory birds, there are only about 12,000 in the world, there are more than 8,000 in the Kombanaor National Wetland Park, every spring, they fly here to roost and breed, at present, the Kombanoll National Wetland Park has become the world's largest breeding and habitat for the remaining gulls." At the Campanor National Wetland Park Mission Center, the docents talked endlessly.
In the middle of summer and July, the beauty of Kangbanaur National Wetland Park is intoxicating, a lake of clear water, blue waves, birdsong, flocks of gulls skimming the blue sky and white clouds, flying freely and frolicking. Who would have thought that this beautiful resort would have been a dirty and dirty place that no one wanted to go near 9 years ago.
Hong Jianming is a professor at Capital Normal University and executive deputy director of the Beijing Wetland Research Center. At the end of April 2014, he went to Kangbanaul to do wetland planning research and found that there were gulls active here, and when he returned in July, he found many young gulls foraging on the shore. Hong Jianming thus determined that Combanor was an important breeding ground for the remaining gulls.
"After Kangba noor is an important breeding habitat for wild animal gulls under national key protection, after being demonstrated by the expert team, since 2014, Kangbao County has launched a comprehensive restoration of wetland ecology and protection of widows." Sun Wei, deputy director of the Kangbao County Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, said.
The county has cut off production and living pollution from the source by demolishing shantytowns on the north shore of Kombanoor, demolishing furfural plants, freight yards and vegetable thermostatic warehouses. Using the vacated land space, 300 acres of forest park were built, and 220,000 square meters of green trails around the lake were built.
"We do what the gulls need." Sun Wei said, "Repair the upstream river, implement the diversion of rain and sewage, upgrade the sewage treatment plant, replenish the purified water to the 'Kang Lake', in order to balance the water level of the lake, protect the living environment of the gulls, dig 230 acres of lake, build a new artificial wetland, expand the habitat range of the gulls, and implement the artificial pad island project in winter to ensure the survival and breeding space of the gulls." The Association for the Protection of Relict Gulls was established to set off a wave of national lake protection and bird love. ”
The Kangbao County Gull Conservation Association was established in 2018 with more than 500 members, and Ma Xirong served as the president. The president of the Kangbao people called "Dr. Ma", a surgeon and a wildlife conservation volunteer, has treated more than 1,300 wild animals, including widowed gulls, for more than 10 years.
Ma Xirong introduced that in mid and late April every year, the remaining gulls began to fly back, especially on April 2 this year, more than 300 flew back, and the ice in Kangba Noor has not yet thawed. In order to help the widows survive the food shortage period, artificial feeding must be carried out.
"From April onwards, the more windy, cooling, rainy and snowy the weather, the more we have to strengthen feeding, the remaining gulls can eat, in order to enhance resistance, in order to successfully survive the famine period of food shortage, in order to achieve the expansion of the population of the remaining gulls and healthy reproduction." Ma Xirong said.
Little Swan Yuan Yuqin in Huanggaiao, Zhangbei County
The ecological function of wetlands is becoming more and more apparent
Swan Lake really has swans!
"In recent years, at the beginning of April every year, the Huanggai Nao Reservoir (also known as Swan Lake) will welcome two or three thousand swans to migrate here, and then fly to the far side through nearly a month of rest and replenishment of energy." Zhai Zhiwei, director of the Huanggaizannao National Wetland Park Management Center in Zhangbei County, introduced.
"Nao" generally refers to the water berth in the inland river basin of the plateau, which is a simplification of the Mongolian "Nao'er", which is collectively referred to as the Water Berth in water conservancy. On the dam, the older generation knows that the grassland was once dotted with many flowers, and the locals called it "Haizi". These "sea seeds" are deep or shallow, large or small, nourishing all creatures on the grassland. According to the Chronicle of Zhangbei County, compiled in the 23rd year of the Republic of China, "... Among the wild birds, the geese, water storks, etc. mostly use the water plants along the edge of the nest, and whenever the sun sets, the birds fly and chirp, and the good place that is rare outside the city is also rare. ”
However, from 2004 to 2014, many of the mounds on the dam "evaporated", and the dried up "haizi" even became saline and alkali land. In 2004, once the water area exceeded 100,000 mu, and the inland lake of the largest plateau in North China, known as the "pearl on the dam", the Anguli Lake was completely dried up, shockingly, and the Yellow Cover Inu in the upper reaches of the Angur lake also dried up uninterruptedly since 2005, and there were almost no swans in the Swan Lake.
"Wetlands have extremely special ecological functions, which play a regulatory role in purifying water sources, storing floods and resisting droughts in the natural environment, and are particularly important life support systems. The restoration of wetlands and the conservation of biodiversity are urgent. Wang Shukai, director of the Municipal Wetland and Wildlife Conservation and Management Center, said.
He introduced that in recent years, the city has made great efforts to build a wetland park, implement wetland protection and restoration projects, and comprehensively treat the grass and sand system of landscapes and forests and lakes, and the ecological environment of wetlands in the city has improved year by year, and the ecological functions of wetlands have continued to improve. In 2019, the city cooperated with Capital Normal University to establish the Jingzhang Wetland Protection and Restoration Science and Technology Demonstration Center, which strengthened the scientific and technological support for the protection and restoration of wetlands in our city.
On July 8, the reporter saw that Professor Hong Jianming was leading his students to plant aquatic plants in the Kombanoll National Wetland Park, he introduced that in order to improve the water quality of Kombanoor and provide a more suitable living environment for migratory birds, 130 acres of artificial wetlands have been established in the upper reaches of Kangbanor, and a variety of aquatic plants have been planted successively, forming a natural purification system.
At present, the city has 8 national wetland parks: Lightning River, Guanting Reservoir, Kangba noir, Chahannur, Huliu River, Sanggan River (Yangyuan, Zhuolu), and Huanggai nao; There are 8 provincial wetland parks in Chahannauer, Baihe, Xiwanzi, Huluhe, Qingshuihe, Yanghe Valley, Dayingtan and Sandaihe. The total area of wetlands ranks second in the province, and the total number of national wetland parks and the total area of wetland parks rank first in the province.
"The ecological function of wetlands is becoming more and more obvious, first of all, in the change in the number of migratory birds, according to statistics, every year, there are tens of thousands of migratory birds in national wetland parks such as Kangba Noor, Guanting Reservoir, lightning river and so on." Among them, there are more than 30 species of wild birds under national primary and secondary key protection, such as gulls, black storks, red-crowned cranes, blue-headed diving ducks, swans, and wild geese. Every spring, the birds return, and the wetland is full of vitality. Wang Shukai said.
Black-necked Ma Zengbin in Kangbao County
Attract Beijing's "Uncle Bird" to photograph birds
The nearest lake to the main city, Ming Lake, is also frequented by wild birds. A citizen said that now the city's ecological environment is getting better and better, and citizens can see so many wild birds at their doorstep, such things will not happen before.
Ma Zengbin, a native of Beijing, is a veteran bird photography enthusiast. Bird shooting for more than ten years, for 8 consecutive years to the dam wetland to shoot birds. He said: "In recent years, there have been more and more birds in Zhangjiakou, and many rare birds can be photographed, and birds have become a new business card of Zhangjiakou."
Under Ma Zengbin's lens, all kinds of birds or dancing, or quiet floating, or leisurely pacing, beautiful. He said that one of his favorite birds is called the black-necked bird, the crested bird, the horned bird, etc., which is a bird that exists in the north and is particularly rare. They resemble ducks with straight, pointed beaks, and every May, they begin to breed. Male birds and female birds will court through dance, on the water, two meet the two eyes, face to face, bow their wings, and then look up at the neck, flap their wings, when they are about to touch each other, and suddenly stop and retreat, it is simply a beautiful ballet.
"Although it is a bird in the north, not all of the north has it, I often walk and shoot, I have hardly seen it around Beijing, and Zhangjiakou has, and there are still many of them, last year, Kangba Noor had one or two hundred pairs of black-necked manures, and I took a lot of classic photos." Ma Zengbin introduced.
Ma Zengbin is not only a bird shooter, but also a propagandist in Zhangjiakou. He has introduced hundreds of photography friends to Zhangjiakou to shoot. At the beginning of May every year, he meets friends to walk in the major wetland parks in Zhangjiakou and record everything beautiful here with the camera.
He said: "Zhangjiakou's bird beauty, jingmei, people are more beautiful, in Zhangjiakou filming for many years, met many local friends, feel the simplicity and kindness of the locals." There are so many volunteers who quietly dedicate themselves to the protection of birds and other wildlife, and they are often impressed by their dedication. ”
In order to publicize the "bird business card" of their hometown, as a native local photographer Wu Yuzhang, Zhang Yuewen, Wen Li, etc., they posted a large number of works on the Internet for netizens across the country to enjoy and attracted much attention.
The ecology is good, the birds are coming, and strengthening publicity and protection is a top priority. At present, National Wetland Parks such as Guyuan Lightning River, Kangbao Kangbanor, Huailai Guanting Reservoir, Zhangbei Huanggai nao, Zhuolu Sangganhe and other national wetland parks have been built as missionary venues, and other wetland parks have also carried out wetland science popularization education in the form of billboards.