Cat mountain salamander
Amount of Finches
A few days ago, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced the 2021 List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection. The number of national first-level protected wild animals in Maoershan has increased from 4 to 12 species, and the number of wild animals under national second-level protection in Maoershan has increased from 41 to 60 species.
There are 12 kinds of national first-class protected wild animals in Maoershan, including leopards, clouded leopards, white-necked long-tailed pheasants, and forest musk, and 8 species of pangolins, cat mountain salamanders, amount of finches, yellow-breasted buntings, jackals, big civet cats, small civet cats, and golden cats have been added. Chinese discovered and named the cat mountain salamander, as a unique species of the Cat Mountain National Nature Reserve, this time it was listed as a national key first-level protected wild animal, which aroused great public concern. Known as the "Three Golds of Cat Mountain", the famous bird species amount of bird species amount of bird, gold-breasted bird, golden crow, this time there are two kinds on the list, of which the amount of bird partridge "airborne" as "national one", golden-breasted bird "airborne" as "country two". At an altitude of 1800-2000 meters above sea level, in the area of "Sanjiangyuan" of Mao'er Mountain, it is rare in China where you can see these three kinds of birds at the same time. The amount of bird is the first new species of birds discovered and named by Chinese itself, and its discovery in Cat Mountain is of great significance.
The changes to the List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection provide an extremely powerful law enforcement basis for cracking down on poaching violations. Mao'er Mountain is a famous treasure trove of species in China, which has bred a wide variety of wild animals and plants. This time, so many wild animals in Mao'er mountain nature reserve have been upgraded to national first-class protected wild animals, which is the fruit of Guilin's decades of adhering to ecological construction.
(Photo courtesy of Mao'ershan National Nature Reserve Management Office)