Tibetan antelope
"Coco Xili", a well-known but extremely mysterious and unfamiliar name, a desolate and barren but full of life. The geological movement hundreds of millions of years ago lifted a brand new highland to the top of the world, which is known as the third pole of the earth, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Due to the harsh climate, lack of fresh water and sparse vegetation, it is inaccessible and often referred to as the alpine zone of life forbidden areas, but it is a paradise and paradise for her natives, the wild animals of the wilderness. For many years, only her name and legend were known to the world, and little was known about where she was. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is set on a majestic mountain, with large and small mountains standing above an average altitude of 4,000 meters.
Sonandaj Heroes Memorial Square
"Coco Xili" is a Mongolian word meaning "beautiful maiden". It belongs to the jurisdiction of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, and is connected to the Changtang in Tibet and the Arjin Mountains in Xinjiang, making it one of the largest uninhabited areas in China. In September 1999, it was renamed as "Qinghai Coco Xili National Nature Reserve", with a total area of 45,000 square kilometers, an average altitude of more than 4,600 meters, and a maximum height of 6,860 meters.
Sonandaj Nature Conservation Station
For me, Coco Siri is a distant secret, a desert wasteland and glacial snowy mountains that appear only in film and television works and news records. It wasn't until I actually got there that I learned about its geography and location, and I was fortunate enough to be one of the few people allowed to enter the cocoa Siri hinterland.
In December 2016, as a photographer with the team, I joined the team of the first batch of "Scientific Expedition Coco Xili" exploration tour composed of scientific expedition team members, Coco Xili patrol members and CCTV documentary film crew, responsible for team work and the collection of video materials in the direction of ecological and cultural tourism protection and opening up, and recording as many images of rare animals as possible. In addition to the excitement, it is more to feel the pressure, this pressure from the unknown, the unknown to Coco Ciri.
Coco Ciri hinterland
Nowadays, there are many feature films, documentaries, articles and photography about this land, and after consulting a lot of information about Coco Ciri, a film deeply shocked me, "Balance". There is no lyrical narration, no beautiful pictures, no exquisite special effects, no film superstars joining, and some are just the most pernicious records of what happens in this land, recording the fearless fighters, recording the innocent creatures, and recording the rampant bandits. Let me put a flame of defense on this land.
Regarding Coco Xili, there was a description of "the snow peaks swaying, the Cangshan Mountains speechless, the lake reflecting the blue sky, the blue sky covering the lake, and the lakes surrounded by snow-capped mountains, in the ancient and barbaric realm, creating a scene of human wonders like the water town of Jiangnan." Surrounding the lake are vibrant wetlands, connected by a series of fantastic braided water systems, where multiple landforms are superimposed and juxtaposed, and a variety of terrains shine together here. It preserves some of the world's most pristine and unique geographical diversity. Whenever spring comes, diandi plum takes the lead in drilling out of the frozen land. It is almost creeping in a posture that receives wind and rain on the coco siri wasteland. Then, creeping cypress branches and tiger ear grass also bloomed with fine flowers, and these impatient plants stretched out their graceful figures to meet another cycle of time. According to incomplete statistics, there are about 150 species of cushion-shaped plants in the world, and there are 50 species in Coco Siri. There are a total of 214 seed plants growing in Coco Siri, of which 84 species are endemic to the Tibetan Plateau. Arguably, Coco Ciri is the last of the plant families on Earth to be the Garden of Eden. ”
Wild yak
The last Eden of the plant family, she is not the last habitat of highland animals. In this unique natural environment, many wild animals are bred, represented by the highland spirit Tibetan antelope. 30 species of mammals, 54 species of birds, 6 species of fish, thrive under the protection of snow-capped grasslands.
The wild yak is a giant on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and its number is a barometer of the ecological environment of Coco Xili. More than ten years ago, on the mountain beams dried by the sun, people can often see its lonely lookout figure, people think that this is caused by its lonely and arrogant temperament, but they do not know that its lonely figure is a symptom of the deterioration of the ecology of Coco Xili. Today, in the distant Coco Xili, its group portraits of friends and companions can be seen everywhere. It is a symbol of strength, a totem of the coco ciri spirit. The Tibetan wild donkeys are cowardly but playful by nature, and they are full of curiosity about the world. There are also horned larks, spotted geese, falcons, as well as brown bears, red foxes, and highland wolves. In the natural law of "natural selection, survival of the fittest", Coco Xili chose the Tibetan antelope, which is the most representative species of Coco Xili with unique physiological habits and physiological structure. Each Tibetan antelope's body is condensed with the survival code that has been sifted, quenched and condensed by the harsh land of Coco Xili.
Birds soar, hooves race, thousands of creatures, in the ancient and barbaric land of Coco Xili composed the most thrilling music of life on the earth, and it is precisely because of this that Coco Xili has won the reputation of the rare wildlife gene bank of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is an important area for biodiversity conservation in China.
Newborn Lake
It's not just the animals and plants here that's valuable. Coco Xili has a typical and complete alpine ecosystem, with alpine meadows, alpine grasslands, alpine swamp meadows, alpine sparse vegetation and alpine desert bushes, alpine deserts and other vegetation types. The vast swamps of permafrost and island-like tundra are the highest and largest wetlands in the world.
Lake Chonay
And it was such a lovely, mysterious, natural, precious Coco Ciri, which in the 1980s was known for illegal gold mining, and at its craziest, tens of thousands of people were there. In the 1990s, with the entry of Tibetan antelope cashmere products into the international black market, driven by huge commercial interests, a large number of illegal poachers entered Coco Siri and began to illegally hunt Tibetan antelopes on a large scale. Coco Siri is not only a no-man's land, but also an illegal area filled with gunpowder and blood.
Monument to the Heroes of Sonandaj
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Lotto Travel Network and Lotto Inspiration Traveler: l.ranger Update: 2019.06.10