Wild giant pandas frequently "appear on camera"

Giant pandas photographed by field monitoring equipment

"This time I photographed it again, leopards, giant pandas, red pandas, and black bears." Zhang Xueliang, a ranger of xiling snow mountain, returned home on June 30 after a four-day mountain patrol. Yesterday, Zhang Xueliang received a call from a reporter and briefed the reporter on the wildlife activities collected during this year's mountain patrol.

This year, Zhang Xueliang is almost 60 years old, from a young age, the elders of the family took him deep into the Xiling Snow Mountain, he from the ranger to the nature reserve patrol team, and then to the current giant panda national park Dayi Management and Conservation Station ranger, his biggest feeling is that the field monitoring equipment is more and more advanced, more and more wild animals are photographed, "In recent years, every time you go to replace the camera battery and take the memory card, you can see the infrared camera to shoot a lot of various wild animals, some can not say the name, the most famous of course is the giant panda." He said bluntly that it is very hard to install maintenance monitoring devices on the mountain, but he feels sincerely happy and proud to see that the equipment he installed has photographed rare wild animals.

In recent years, the number of giant pandas photographed in the Snow Mountain area of Dayi Xiling has increased year by year - in 2017, at the Dafei Hydropower Station in Xiling Town, Dayi County, a wild giant panda was photographed by video surveillance at night in the front pond of the Dafei Hydropower Station; in March 2018, at an altitude of 1,700 meters, a sub-adult giant panda hung on a tall tree; in May 2018, at an altitude of 1,400 meters, an adult giant panda ran into the bamboo forest planted by the villagers to steal bamboo shoots...

According to the staff of dayi management and protection station, the active range of giant pandas in the previous reserve was 1700 meters to 3000 meters above sea level, and now the range has been significantly expanded. This has a lot to do with the improvement of the overall ecological environment quality of Dayi County year by year in recent years.

It is reported that the Dayi HeishuiHe Nature Reserve has been monitoring infrared trigger cameras since 2011, and 60 cameras have been installed so far, covering most of the area of the reserve. In recent years, a total of 8 kinds of national first-level key protected animals have been photographed, including giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, snow leopards, forest musk deer, twisted horned antelope, green-tailed rainbow pheasants, pheasants and spot-tailed hazel chickens, as well as more than 30 kinds of national second-level key protected animals such as Tibetan unitary monkeys, red pandas, black bears, red-bellied horned pheasants and blood pheasants. The more than 3,000 wildlife pictures and video materials collected from the shooting provide a sufficient basis for effectively mapping out the wildlife resources in the reserve.

According to the latest statistics, the rare plants in the Heishui River Nature Reserve are also abundant: more than 6,000 species of plant resources, and 23 species of national key protected plants such as juniper tree and yew tree. Reporter Hong Jidong

Photo courtesy of Dayi Management and Conservation Station of Giant Panda National Park

Source: Chengdu Daily