Travel, Study, and Fun in China - Protection zone of red-crowned crane of Yancheng

"Passed by that brook, you ever heard, there was a girl she had once been here, "another herd of red-crowned cranes flies over gently gently. "This is a song that had ever prevailed several years ago, describe the story of a girl that sacrificed for rescuing the red-crowned crane. Listen to this song for the first time, want to know where this story happens, see on the media finally, it happens in " homeland " of the red-crowned crane --Yancheng. There are the nature reserves of 450,000 hectares here, various birds about 400 kinds, especially take nearly half the wild red-crowned cranes of the world and pass the winter here every year. Wish eagerly one day, can " fly " get this piece take place moving place of story, see the red-crowned crane beautiful. The full name of protection zone of red-crowned crane of Yancheng, for " national-level rare bird's protection zone of Yancheng of Jiangsu " (hereafter referred to as the protection zone), it is the only large-scale crane nature reserve in the environmental protection system of our country; It is the biggest red-crowned crane in the world that survives the winter on the base; It is the largest seabeach of Asia that scribbles in the wetland type protection zone too. This protection zone was set up on February 5, 1983, in autumn of 1983, set up with the approval of people's government of Jiangsu Province, it is the second homeland of a kind of rare bird's red-crowned crane in the country. On the September 1992 is until the State Council classify people as the nature reserve more, it admit to world and The biosphere " protects network members.

There is natural vegetation that reed grows thickly in red-crowned crane's nature reserve, apply the living beings in the rich and varied sea, the uninhabited one is spacious and quiet, the best place for poultry's life. Here is the first sea scribbling type nature reserve of the whole country. In October of every gold autumn, several crowds of red-crowned cranes pitch dragon's nature reserve and fly to here to survive the winter from Qiqihar of Heilongjiang groupsly, most much 1000 more than only, most juvenile share have 300 more than only, until heavy wild red-crowned crane troop, form ground most in the world too occasionally, wild goose, ducks are hundreds and thousands of even more. The protection zone lies in the coastal middle part of Jiangsu Province, regard coastal mud flat of Sheyang County as the core, still include some mud flat of loud water counties, strand counties, Dafeng City, east Taiwan. The total length of coastline is 582 kilometers, the whole area is close to 500,000 hectares, the area of key district is up to 17,300 hectares. This mud flat belonged to in protection zone is influenced by marine it, temperate in climate, the rainfall is plentiful, make a clear distinction between the four seasons. It becomes the network, many marsh criss-crossly that the beach spreads the river branching stream. History enters the sea on the northern and southern ends in this protection zone for a long time in the Changjiang River and the Yellow River in ancient times, have formed the shoal of more than 200,000 hectares of now. Unique natural geographical environment accumulates and breeds plants such as wild animal, Herba cyperi subject, grass family various in style,etc.. The reed is dense in the district, the grass looks like a carpet. Float at the edge of the Huanghai Sea like a green woollen blanket in the whole protection zone, The world ecologist is praised as " kingdom " of birds' bird, the model of ecological protection.

The bird kind already found out in the protection zone accounts for our country there are 33% which birds planted now. Belong to to have 9 national first class focused protection among them, second protect 33 kinds. Dark kind of 227 kinds of protection stipulated in " the Sino-Japanese migratory bird protects the protocol ", there are 160 kinds in this protection zone. The most famous with red-crowned crane (Grus japonesis) in various rare birds in the protection zone, the red-crowned crane belongs to crane's shape item, crane's family, it is the endangered rare bird in the world, classified as a kind of focused protection birds in our country. Young bird its for become young early, become body to be body feather pure white, tail feathers are dark, the head uncovers a crimson, at the moment mostly feather, back toe shape little and location high, at a level other 3 toe. Its trachea is very long, and penetrate in the brestbone, enclose tortuously more, this kind of structure is rare in the birds. The people of our country have liked more red-crowned cranes since ancient times, because its bodily form is beautiful, beautiful; Movement refined free and easy, one that is reputation " red crowned crane ", regard it as the luckiness, longevity, loyal and steadfast symbol. The common painter makes " crane's macrobiotic pictures ", in fact the crane does not perch to fall on the pine, but often involve in the conduct in the marsh or field of shoal, peck at fishes and shrimps, browse, valley one,etc.. In annual the last ten days of October, the red-crowned crane began the life of surviving the winter of about 140 days from the North. Since the protection zone is set up, red-crowned crane that has survived the winter in the district has come The quantity rises year by year, have 288 only to build zone time, has already increased to nearly 900 at present, has accounted for 70% that the global wild red-crowned crane counted. The red-crowned crane within the territory of nature reserve and Japan of Heilongjiang of our country is shifting here gradually. The more gratifying one is, in recent years, there are more than 60 to employ and guide white cranes not even recorded in the protection zone to here and survive the winter, have caused domestic and international birds expert's great concern and appreciation.

The protection zone is one of the areas with very abundant bio-diversity, there are 450 kinds of plants in the district, 379 kinds of birds, 45 kinds of amphibious reptiles, 281 kinds of fish, 47 kinds of mammality. Among them a kind of wild animal which the country lays special stress on protecting has red-crowned cranes, it amounts to 12 kinds to old age crane, white crane, white stork, black stork, Chinese merganser, offer as a gift the gull, big bustard, white shoulder carving, golden eagle, sea eagle, psephurus gladius, class II wildlife under special state protection have 67, for instance river deer, dark face plucked string instrument with a fretted fingerboard egret, big swan, little blue and green foot snipe, mandarin duck, grey crane, magpie sparrow hawk, harbor seal,etc.. Resources are abundant in the district, can produce more than 1 million of reed to take on every year, over a million tons of aquatic products, export the clam worm nearly 300 tons every year. Protection zone set up, in the past 15 years, make very loud achievement, pay the enormous cost at the same time. In initial stage of building the district, in order to prevent the vibrations of the train in the transportation way from destroying the embryo in eggs, two staff members are actually lame through the crown of the head of a couple of days by holding the carton filled up with the cotton fibre in hands, transport two red-crowned cranes ovum that is hatching back from Heilongjiang. And begin from two initial red-crowned cranes, already there are more than 150 until today to breed. A young crane nurse called Xu XiuJuan has dedicated the 20 -year-old life in order to rescue a red-crowned crane injured and fallen into in the river. In order to commemorate this dies in the protection zone, the girl making great contributions to development and building of the protection zone ,Old revolutinary base area --Yancheng city looking at sea hotel (famous concerning foreign affairs advanced hotelling) door stand one white beautiful beautiful statue slowly inside. A song " story of red-crowned crane " spreads extensively on the earth of salt mound at the same time, tell from mouth to mouth with approbation her touching deed. Have already built up tall and big " looking at crane's pavilion " for visitors to ascend a height and view and admire in the protection zone at present; In order to accelerate the artificial reproduction of the red-crowned crane and tame, have set up " the cranes raise and train and breed the centre "; Various birds, beasts' sample are collected in " coastal ecological Natural History Museum of Jiangsu "; " special birds' plant ", " the clam worm cultivates and processes the export base ",etc., have already possessed the suitable rule.

It have a taste of by Tang poetry here visitor " it is at sad and deserted and lonely autumn since it is from ancient times,I day autumn win speech by spring towards, if eyeball empty one crane at the rows of cloud, guide poem feeling get green night ". Coastal rare bird's setting-up of the protection zone. Have aroused the attention from world. 1985, international crane A Der Dr., Poul of base, President of foundation, investigate on a special trip, domestic and international experts and scholars often come here to visit and exchange. Having attracted large quantities of domestic and international visitors at the same time, people can appreciate the dancing posture of the wild crane group, raise and train the cracking show of the crane group here heartily, can also dance with crane, take a group photo, leave the bright wish of good health and a long life. There are abundant marine products in the protection zone. Visitor can adopt clam in mud flat, catch little crab, fish shrimp, do, cook in the open air, can drive to reach to beauty spots such as neighbouring sea with forest farm, fishing village, saltern,etc., taste seafood of various wild games. This border, make people completely relaxed and happy at this moment. Enjoy oneself so much as to forget to go home.

Traffic: Go from Yancheng by car, penetrate male genital, 1 and a half hours such as drive.