Indian bison in Nao Zhadu Nature Reserve (Photo by Lu Wen, Director of the Management and Conservation Bureau of Nao Zhadu Provincial Nature Reserve)
Yunnan not only has the Asian elephants that are well known to the Chinese people, but also the Indian bison, a national protected animal.
Among them, the number of Indian bison accounts for about 1/4 of the national total.
Indian bison are distributed in the Nao Zhadu Provincial Nature Reserve.
A few days ago, the Propaganda Department of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and the Press and Propaganda Department of the COP15 Yunnan Provincial Preparatory Office jointly organized the theme of "Tradition and Modernity : Yunnan Ecological Wisdom - COP15 Yunnan Biodiversity Theme Interview Tour", walked into the Naozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve and learned about the unknown side of the reserve.
Lu Wen, director of the Management and Conservation Bureau of Naozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve, was interviewed by the media
Nuozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve, located in the lower section of the Lancang River, covers an area of 18,997 hectares.
The reserve spans the two counties of Simao and Lancang in Pu'er City, of which Simao tablets are 12203 hectares and Lancang tablets are 6794 hectares, accounting for 64.24% and 35.76% of the protected area, respectively, the altitude here is 602 to 1873 meters, and the highest peak is Xianding Camp in the southwest, with an altitude of 1873.2 meters.
A real scene of tropical rainforest in the Nao Zhadu Provincial Nature Reserve
The lancang river, which flows endlessly, passes through the middle of the reserve, forming a landform pattern with the canyon as the central axis and a mountainous area in the east and west.
This also means that in the 18,997-hectare area of the reserve, the waters of the Lancang River, as low as the rushing waters, and as high as the 1873 meters of the Xianding Camp, are all within the guardianship of the Management and Conservation Bureau of the Naozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve.
Real scene of Naozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve
Naozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve is rich in biodiversity, with many species protected at the national level, and its conservation and research value is very high. The reserve has the obvious characteristics of transition from the northern edge of the tropics to the subtropics, and there are rainforests of the southern edge of the northern tropics, monsoon forests, monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forests and hot bamboo forest ecosystems, which belong to the nature reserves of forest ecological types.
A patch of wild pukui in the Naozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve
Lu Wen, director of the Management and Conservation Bureau of Naozadu Provincial Nature Reserve, said that a total of 2016 species of vascular plants, 84 species of mammals, 185 species of birds, 44 species of amphibians and reptiles, 586 species of insects and 65 species of macromygi were recorded in the reserve.
Crowned hornbill (Courtesy of the Management and Conservation Bureau of Naozadu Provincial Nature Reserve)
White chamois (Courtesy of the Management and Conservation Bureau of Naozadu Provincial Nature Reserve)
There are a variety of rare and endangered wild plants distributed here, and there are 16 species of wild plants under national key protection, such as grate-tooth cycad, single-feather cycad, vine jujube, Southern Yunnan wind blowing nan, cycad fern, Chinese quercus and other rare and endangered wild plants.
Indian bison (Courtesy of the Management and Conservation Bureau of Naozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve)
The reserve also has about 120 species of orchids.
All orchids are currently listed in the Appendix to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and are protected accordingly.
The reserve not only has a relatively complete combination of tropical monsoon forest vegetation, but also the only concentrated beautiful sunflower and elm tree communities in the country.
In the Nao Zha Dhu Provincial Nature Reserve, we found that the number of endangered wild plants in the reserve is increasing due to the continuous strengthening of various officially led conservation measures and conservation efforts, and even the number of Indian bison, which is protected at the national level, is also increasing.
Indian bison in the reserve (Courtesy of the Management and Conservation Bureau of Naozadu Provincial Nature Reserve)
Nao Zhadu Provincial Nature Reserve is the core area of the distribution of Indian bison, the Management and Conservation Bureau of Nuozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve has built a food source base for bison in the area of more than 1,000 acres, built a pond, artificial nitrate pond, convenient for bison to drink water, take salt, and planted rice dumplings, poplar wood, corn and other wild animal food to meet the needs of bison in the region.
At present, there are 27 Indian bison in naozadu Provincial Nature Reserve, accounting for about 25% of the national total.
In 2010, Lu Wen inadvertently came into close contact with an adult Indian bison, "probably more than 10 meters away, the bison was angry, I just happened to have a camera in my hand, and instantly recorded the image of this bison." ”
Today, more than 300 infrared cameras are installed in the reserve, so people do not have to risk their lives to get close to large animals as in the past, because these infrared cameras, which can always monitor biodiversity, make it easier for people to grasp the activities and habits of special species such as wild animals (Indian bison).
On July 21, 2021, infrared cameras captured a cub of an Indian bison, following a cow, drinking water at a water source in a protected area. This indicates that the indian bison population is increasing.
In the Mangba villager group on the boundary of the reserve, there are more than 300 large purple-breasted parrots in the country that are the only one in the country that exists all year round.
Big purple-breasted parrot (Courtesy of the Management and Conservation Bureau of Naozadu Provincial Nature Reserve)
Every morning, these large purple-breasted parrots gather on the large banyan tree in front of the door of The Brown villager Wang Cheng's house, "chattering" non-stop, as if deliberating on the big and small things in the "parrot tribe".
Large purple-breasted parrot (image from The Rock Mass of Mangba Village)
Under the trees, the villagers of Mangca regularly walk to the path between the farms.
Every day, the beautiful picture of life in which people, parrots and nature coexist in harmony is staged here.