October is the season when large numbers of migratory birds migrate south from Siberia via Beijing, and it is also the peak season for poachers to hunt and trade in their nets. In order to combat poaching, the volunteers of the "Beijing Bird Protection Squad" have gone all out, and so far 13 poaching sites and 38 bird catching nets have been found, and 253 migratory birds have been rescued.
Yesterday morning, it was not five o'clock, and in the dense forest of Nanyuan in Fengtai District, there were pleasant birds chirping everywhere. Silva, the leader of the "Beijing Bird Protection Squad", stopped and put his index finger in his lips to signal the team members not to make a sound, because not far away there was a bird call played by the player, mixed with the sound of people talking, and the experience told them that this was a poaching scene.
The team members quietly reached into the bushes to observe that a poacher was picking up the catch from a 2-meter-high net. Silva gently reached for his phone and snapped up the evidence to report to law enforcement. This is not the first time they have cooperated with government departments to combat poaching, and under the Penal Code and the Wildlife Protection Act, those who await poachers will be punished by criminal detention.
"It's a net!" In front of Silva's eyes are 10 2-meter-high bird-catching nets, each with a length ranging from more than ten meters to twenty meters, and a net array is formed in the bush from four directions, southeast, northwest, and northwest.
"The net array generally has multiple entrances, and the birds that fly into it rarely escape." "Silva" further explained, "This is called a sticky net, also called a bird net, every 50 centimeters is a pocket, the bird hits the net will be caught by the net pocket, wings, head, feet into the mesh, the more you struggle, the more you will be entangled in nylon wire." ”
Continuing to walk into the net array, the scene became more and more tragic, and more than a dozen kinds of birds such as the red-throated singing plover, the blue-throated singing plover, the embroidered-eyed bird, the yellow-browed willow warbler, and the black-browed reed warbler were "hit", including an endangered fine-striped reed warbler.
"This is the blue indigo chin, scientific name blue-throated songbird, is a second-class protected animal in Beijing, which is their migration season and the main wild bird caught in nets." Silva sighed again and again, because many birds were already dying.
Every year around the National Day, the "Beijing Bird Protection Squad" has to launch an "indigo defense battle". This year, they focused on patrolling the migratory bird migration line, found 13 poaching scenes, cooperated with the Beijing Forest Public Security and other departments to detain 8 people, seized 38 bird catching nets, 18 players, 69 shooting nets, and rescued a total of 253 migratory birds from 20 species.
"Behind every bird sold in the market are countless corpses of their kind! So, please boycott and report illegal transactions! "Based on years of experience, the bird guard squad found that many birds died quickly due to unadaptability in the illegal trade, and only a few were left to sell in the market alive...
"Silva" said that bird protection also needs to mobilize the masses: if you find a bird catching net, please take photos and collect evidence at the first time under the condition of ensuring safety, report it to the Beijing Municipal Forest Public Security, and you can also contact the "Beijing Bird Protection Team" to deal with it.