Qinghua Township, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, has beautiful mountains, lush trees and abundant products, and the beautiful Heihui River, a tributary of the Lancang River, runs through the lofty mountains and mountains. Dali Weishan Qinghua Green Peacock Provincial Nature Reserve (hereinafter referred to as the "Protected Area") on the banks of the Heihui River is the only nature reserve in China that takes the protection of green peacocks as a single protection object.
Twenty or thirty years ago, there used to be flocks of green peacocks and feathers everywhere. After 2006, this former green peacock home has never appeared in the figure of green peacock again.
Since the establishment of the Management and Protection Bureau of Dali Weishan Qinghua Green Peacock Provincial Nature Reserve (hereinafter referred to as the "Management and Protection Bureau"), the protection has become more and more intense, and the reserve has restored a natural environment suitable for the survival of green peacocks. People are eagerly looking forward to the return of the peacock!
Regrets/
After 2006
Never seen a green peacock again
"In the tenth winter month, when the peas planted by the villagers in the field are ripe, the green peacocks come in groups to steal food. A green peacock is sentry at the edge of the field, and a group of green peacocks are stealing food in the field. As soon as someone was spotted, the green peacocks that were whistling whistled, and a group of green peacocks rose up and glided down the hillside. After the visitors walked away, the green peacock slowly walked uphill again. Li Rongcheng, the leader of the Zuoma Village Patrol Team, is 50 years old this year, and in his childhood memories, he can always see flocks of green peacocks.
Li Rongcheng said that when he was twelve or thirteen years old, he herded cattle and sheep on the mountain every day, walked to the vicinity of Huangjia Tomb (the core area of the reserve), and often saw large peacocks leading small peacocks, leisurely walking on the forest trail. Sometimes when it is not dawn to go out, a large group of green peacocks and black pressures block the road, and then slowly walk away after dawn. At that time, every more than a week, you could see a peacock opening screen. It is often a group of more than ten, brushing together to unfold the feathers on the tail, very beautiful. The large peacock can weigh up to 12 or 3 pounds and is about 70 centimeters tall. The feathers on their tails are long and can reach a diameter of about 2 meters when they open the screen.
In the impression of the people in the reserve, the green peacock is large, eats a lot, builds a long nest with thatch, and squats on a tree at night. Twenty or thirty years ago, flocks of green peacocks frequently haunted the front and back of the village, and they could always pick up the long feathers of the green peacocks on the hillside, and every household was decorated with peacock feathers. In recent years, with the change of climate, the impact of human activities (the use of pesticides and fertilizers) and other factors, resulting in a shortage of food for green peacocks, the living environment has been damaged. Since 2006, there has been no trace of a green peacock here.
Transformation/
Few years
The ecological environment has become better, and the variety of animals has increased
The director of the Zuoma Village Management and Protection Station said that with the change of the ecological environment in recent years, they often found some new species that did not exist in the past in the process of patrolling.
After a day of rain, he rode his motorcycle down the Yangjiang River, saw a red snail salamander that had been extinct for many years on the side of the road, stopped on a sharp brake, and was almost chased by a colleague who followed closely behind. They packed the red snail salamander in a bag, took it to the water's edge, and turned two more out of the water weeds, very excited.
Once, the Red Army found a cuckoo nest parasite and had been watching from the sidelines. The cuckoo nest parasitized by the Red Army is the nest of a brown-bellied fairy wren, and after the 3 eggs of the brown-bellied fairy harrier were thrown out of the nest by the cuckoo, it has been feeding the small cuckoo of the "dove occupying the magpie's nest". He recorded the whole process with an infrared camera.
"Now the mountains and rivers are green, the ecological environment is getting better and better, and we are monitoring more and more types of wild animals!" Ranger Rowan said.
Since the establishment of the Management and Conservation Bureau in 2016, parrots, chamois and macaques have secretly broken the bud valley, stolen peas and safflowers, and the compensation for wildlife accidents has increased year by year. The people of the reserve and the wildlife are getting along more and more harmoniously. As of August this year, the Bureau of Management and Conservation has monitored a total of 159 species of birds and 18 species of mammals, including 2 species of national level i key protected animals (forest musk and black-necked long-tailed pheasant), 21 species of national level II key protected animals (white-bellied golden pheasant, white partridge, kelet falcon, grey-headed parrot, grey-breasted parrot, grey forest osprey, long-tailed broad-billed bird, red-bellied horned pheasant, common eagle, black eagle, yellow-throated marten, civet cat, macaque, etc.). Two new recorded species were discovered this year.
Lens/
The hunter incarnates as a steward
There is a fixed income every month
Early one morning, the reporter, led by the rangers, walked into the reserve. In the early morning, the air in the mountains is quiet, the milky white mist fills the top of the mountain, and the dark green Heihui River water flows quietly under the mountain. It's the pulled down by the ocelot! Walking along the rugged mountain path, rowan's family suddenly pointed to a pile of animal feces and shouted, their faces full of excitement.
The reserve covers an area of 1,000 hectares, with an altitude of 1,240 meters to 2010.2 meters, and is under the jurisdiction of the four village committees of Yangjiang, Zhongyao, Silver Factory and Xiyao in Qinghua Township. Miaoxing Village, located on the edge of the reserve, is a 35-family Miao village, which used to be called Zuojia Tomb Village, and has had the traditional custom of hunting for generations. Rowan, a 49-year-old full-time caretaker, was born here and has loved to go hunting with his father in the mountains since childhood.
With the enhancement of the country's protection of wild animals, the Rowan family voluntarily gave up the crossbow and became a natural forest protection project steward. In 2018, the Rowan family led the villagers to release all kinds of birds such as ring-necked pheasants, thrushes, and white-bellied golden pheasants kept at home, and became a full-time steward with a salary of 1800 yuan per month. Coupled with planting and breeding, you can earn more than 70,000 yuan a year. "After becoming a steward, I have a fixed income. Now my two children, one graduated from college and one from high school, are living much better than before! Rowan said.
Seeing that the palms of Rowan's two palms were black, he knew that he had returned to knock walnuts after work. Locals say that the darker the hands, the richer they are. His family's walnuts can harvest about one ton a year, and they also grow crystal peas, bud grain, buckwheat, barley, oats, etc., raise pigs and chickens, and live a full and happy life.
Under the vigorous publicity of the Management and Conservation Bureau, up to the 80-year-old people, down to the three or four years old children, all know to protect wild animals. With the efforts of everyone, Qinghua Township has become a small township with a good ecological environment and rich people.
Close-up/
It was guarded for nearly 20 days
Six birds flew away with their mother
50 infrared cameras were deployed in the reserve for monitoring, and 15 fixed monitoring lines for wild animals were established. Yang Jiawei, director of the Scientific Research Institute of the Reserve, introduced that each patrol personnel patrols the mountain for 18 to 25 days a month, and each person takes a monitoring sample line, patrols the mountain for more than 2 hours a day, and takes pictures of the animal feces, feathers and footprints found and uploads them to the monitoring system.
"In April and May last year, villagers found nine black-necked long-tailed pheasant eggs incubating. The Red Army and I built a shed near the nest to hide and observe the hatching of the eggs. Two infrared cameras shot at night, and we used the time the old birds left the nest to forage for food with the camera. One morning at 9 o'clock in the morning, after the old bird left the nest to feed, we heard a noise on the rock wall above the nest. Upon closer inspection, a snake was spotted stealing bird eggs. The next day, we brought the snake catching tools and clipped the snake off the rock wall when the old bird left the nest, which was a black-lined snake with a diameter of four or five centimeters and a length of about 1.7 meters. We watched for nearly 20 days until 6 small black-necked long-tailed pheasants hatched and flew away by the old birds. Li Xingquan, a scientific research monitor at the mother management and nursing station, said.
During the conversation, Rowan's family raised their eyes to look into the distance, pointed to a tree branch and said, "You see, there is a forest horned owl there, sleeping!" Looking in the direction of his finger, 10 meters away, among the trees, there was indeed a small forest horned owl crouching on the branches, the color of its feathers and the color of the trunk were very similar, and if you didn't pay attention to it, you really couldn't see it.
Reporter Qin Menglin Intern Zhou Lingyu Photo report
Source: Spring City Evening News