On February 5, 2021, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued Announcement No. 3 of 2021, releasing the adjusted List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection (hereinafter referred to as the "List") to the public. After the adjustment, the "List" includes a total of 980 species and 8 categories of wild animals, including 234 species and 1 categories of wild animals protected by the national level I. and 746 species and 7 categories of wild animals under national level II protection. In terms of management system, 686 of the above species are managed by the forestry and grassland department according to terrestrial wild animals, and 294 species and 8 species are managed by the fisheries department according to aquatic wild animals, and a "*" is added to the List.
In the adjusted list, in the Gansu Liancheng National Nature Reserve located in the territory of our city, the distribution of wild animal species under national key protection has increased from 28 species originally recorded to 45 species, including: 11 species of wild animals under national level I key protection and 34 species of wild animals under national level II key protection. The increase in the list of protected animals has provided a stronger legal basis and support for the protection and law enforcement of wild animals in Liancheng Nature Reserve.
From the perspective of mammals, after the adjustment of the "List", there are 13 species of wild animals under national key protection, of which the number of wild animals (mammals) under national level I key protection in the protected area has increased from 2 to 4 species, namely sika deer, musk, jackal and desert cat, of which jackal is a newly added level I protected animal, and desert cat has been upgraded from the original level II key protection to level I protection. There are 9 species of national level II protected wild animals (mammals) in the reserve, namely brown bears, red foxes, stone martens, otters, ocelots, lynxes, rabbits, red deer, and rock sheep.
Jackals - a new distribution record monitored by infrared cameras in the reserve in 2020, a national level I key protected wild animal
The list of wild animals (birds) under key protection in the protected area has been adjusted from 22 to 30 species. According to the comprehensive scientific investigation of the second phase of the reserve, a total of 175 species of birds were detected, and the number of wild animals (birds) under national level I key protection increased from 4 to 7 species, including the original grade I protected animals spot-tailed hazel, red-throated pheasant, black stork, white-shouldered eagle and golden eagle, and new grade I protected animals vultures and falcons (upgraded from level II to level I). After the adjustment of the List, there are 23 species of wild animals (birds) protected by the national level II. in the reserve, and the new 8 species are: large stone chicken, sandpiper, black woodpecker, orange-winged noisy stork, white-browed, red-throated singing plover, blue-throated singing plover, and red-billed finches, and the newly added 8 species of national grade II key protected wild animals (birds) in the above-mentioned protected areas are more common, and the staff of the reserve have strengthened protection in the daily patrol and monitoring.
Some newly adjusted to national level II protected wild animals (birds)
In addition, two new species of fish in the reserve are national level II key protected wild animals, namely the bone-lipped Yellow River fish and the thick-lipped naked-lipped heavy-lipped fish, and the addition of the above two fish lists will further promote the law enforcement work of fish protection in the Chase River in the reserve.
The national Grade II protected wild animal distributed in the Datong River Basin of the protected area is the bony lip Yellow River fish