Gansu Taitong-Kuntong Mountain National Nature Reserve belongs to the forest ecological type nature reserve, and the main protection objects are forest ecosystems, rare species, geological relics and ancient cultural relics.
Forest ecosystem The reserve belongs to the typical zone of inland semi-humid to semi-arid climate transition, is a relatively complete preserved mountain forest ecosystem on the Loess Plateau, the animal and plant resources in the area are rich, the composition is complex, and it has the characteristics of obvious antiquity, representativeness, diversity, rarity and fragility, the ecological location is very important, it is a natural botanical garden and biological gene bank, it is a natural green treasure house in Longdong region, in the conservation of water sources, conservation of water and soil, wind and sand fixation, climate regulation, Maintaining the ecological balance of the Jing River Basin and even the Yellow River Basin and ensuring the sustainable development of the regional economy plays a very important role.
Rare Species There are 1139 species of vascular plant communities in the area, 1139 species of vascular plant communities in 120 families and 482 genera, and 245 species of cultivated plants in 14 families, including: Ginkgo biloba, longleaf cephalocarpus orchid, concave aquila orchid, maolia orchid, small flower fire orchid, paraphyllum orchid, small spotted leaf orchid, two-leaf dubbed orchid, bilobagu lip orchid, auricular tongue orchid, cuspid, horned orchid, fork lip orchid 13 species (variants), belonging to 2 families and 11 genera, and the national level II key protected plants are medium ephedra, ephedra, diamond poplar, walnut and peony , Peony, rose peony, lotus peony, grass peony, Northeast tea, rose, wild soybean, licorice, Chinese sea buckthorn, chuanlong potato 15 species (variant), belonging to 9 families and 10 genera, national III. key protected plants astragalus, walnut catalpa, purple spot peony 3 species, belonging to 3 families and 3 genera. There are 297 species (subspecies) of vertebrates distributed in the area, belonging to 5 classes, 28 orders, 80 families and 193 genera, belonging to 37 species (subspecies) of wild animal species under national key protection, accounting for 12.46% of the total number of species, of which: the national level i key protected animals include black bustard, golden eagle, great bustard common subspecies, leopard, forest musk, sika deer 6 species (subspecies); national level II key protected animals include Qinling fine scaled salmon, giant salamander, Tibetan mountain stream salamander, black kite, sparrowhawk, goshawk, giant eagle, common bustard, grassland eagle, bald eagle, white-tailed harrier, swallow falcon, There are 31 species (subspecies) (subspecies) of red-footed falcon, peregrine falcon, peregrine falcon, red falcon, mandarin duck, giant swan, grey crane, crested wheat chicken, long-billed sword plover, golden-eyed owl, northeast subspecies of red-horned owl, eagle owl, longitudinal-bellied owl, long-eared owl, spoon chicken, red-bellied golden pheasant, stone marten, otter, golden cat and roe deer. There are 180 species of terrestrial wild animals protected by the State that are beneficial or have important economic and scientific research value, accounting for 60.61% of the total number of species. There are 28 species endemic to China distributed in protected areas, accounting for 9.43% of the total number of species. There are 599 species (subspecies) of insect resources in 13 orders, 84 families, 377 genera, of which 1 species of insects belonging to national key protection include 1 species of small red spider silk butterfly and 41 species of ornamental butterfly moth.
Geological Relics The geological resources of the reserve are rich, distributed in stepped, spiral, wheat stack, tower-like peaks or sister peaks, the terrain is dangerous, stacked, the first-line sky structure is typical and unique, the cliff cave is particularly common, the qianshan of Kuntong Mountain has precious crustal movement and orogenic relics, and there are well-preserved, rich population and very precious Paleozoic animal fossil remains in the Cambrian and Ordovician strata of Dataizi, Taitung Mountain, etc., which have extremely important scientific research and conservation value.
Ancient Cultural Relics After researching that there are human activities in the Neolithic period in the jurisdiction of the protected area, leaving a large number of ancient cultural relics and cultural landscapes, the Qijia culture and Yangshao cultural relics have been found in the northeastern foothills of Wangjia Mountain, and the cultural landscape is temple architecture and pavilions, mainly distributed in Kuntong Mountain and Taitong Mountain, of which Kuntong Mountain belongs to the Twelve Avenues Sect Famous Mountain, which is one of the birthplaces of Taoism in China, and there are many ancient architectural relics and well-preserved, especially the "Nine Palaces, Eight Terraces and Twelve Courtyards", "The Twelve Views of KunTong", "The Yellow Emperor Asks the Holy Land" and other buildings 2. Landscapes and historical legends have the most far-reaching influence and are of great conservation value.