Look at the news Knows reporter Ao Defang Fu Ya Wang Zebin
2021-10-26 14:08
One of the first national parks just approved on October 12, the Hainan Rainforest National Park, is home to China's endemic species, the Hainan gibbon. It is listed by the IUCN as "the world's most endangered primate" and lives only in the rainforests of Bawangling National Park. Due to historical hunting, logging and environmental changes, in the 1980s, only 2 groups of 7 to 9 animals remained in this species, and they were on the verge of extinction. Now thanks to the government's strictest conservation measures, this "loneliest close relative of humanity" has recovered to 35 in 5 groups in September 2021.
Hainan gibbons love to "sing", have the reputation of "rainforest singers", especially like the whole family "collective chorus" around sunrise, so if you want to see them, you must hike before dawn for about an hour and a half to reach the monitoring point, wait until the first chirp in the morning, follow the sound, it is possible to see the traces of gibbons.
Gibbons are agile, and most of the places of activity are rarely inhabited deep mountain forests, which require extremely high physical strength and endurance of the monitoring team. In addition to observing and recording the number of gibbons, eating and playing habits, the monitoring team members also have to bring back the gibbon's feces for analysis, especially in the matter of gibbons eating, which requires more worry. Gibbons are mainly near their "granaries", wherever there is food, gibbons. In 2018, when a typhoon broke the road to the "granary", the team members climbed to the top of the tree and built a "feeding corridor" with ropes. In daily life, when I encounter the fruit that gibbons have eaten, I also pick them up like "treasures".
Food shortages were once a major factor in restricting the development of gibbons. To this end, since 2003, Hainan has transformed and restored 4248 mu of gibbon habitat, planted more than 300,000 native tree species such as alpine fig, small-leaf fig and chongyang wood that gibbons love to eat, supplementing the "granary" of gibbons.
At present, the core protected areas of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park are all closed to the mountains and protected forests. While gradually escaping the extinction situation, the Hainan gibbon conservation case also showed the "Chinese wisdom" of biodiversity conservation to the world. However, the current number of 35 animals is still far below the minimum number of ecological populations that can sustain survival, and Hainan hopes to double the population of gibbons in Hainan in 15 years.
(Look at the news Knows reporter: Ao Defang Fu Ya Wang Zebin Editor: Lao Xu)