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Siberia appeared a large number of rare long winter swan stranded in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia
www.nmg.xinhuanet.com 2013-05-05 09:15
According to Voice of China "CNR News" reported that, in the spring of this year, China's northeast and eastern Inner Mongolia temperature rose slowly, not only affects the spring production, and also enables a large number of the Swan residence in the territory of Inner Mongolia Chifeng.
Chifeng City, north China's important migratory channels, a variety of migratory birds each year up to more than 200,000 just swan close to 80,000, and the number is gradually increased with the improvement of the ecological. Under normal circumstances, in early March of each year, the Swan by wintering South migration to Chifeng, a pair of husband and wife partner around 51 Swan moved north Siberian breeding.
However, due to the effects of climate, this spring can be said is almost more than 20 days overdue, the Mongolian Plateau and Siberia Swan breeding grounds are still ice thousands of miles, thousands of miles Piao so Swan can not go, according to the expected date of birth, as in previous years, so as to cause a large number of swans in Chifeng stranded in a strange landscape.
Chifeng City Forestry Bureau Zhang Simin, swan breeding grounds in Siberia this year, there has been an unusually long winter phenomenon, completely disrupted the swans carry the life cycle, it is possible to form a swan in Chifeng spawning phenomenon, this will give Wildlife Refuge departments bring a lot of problems, because Swan during the breeding incubation period is vulnerable.
In order to protect the swans, Chifeng City, launched a special action to protect migratory birds. Chifeng City, forestry public security departments at all levels strictly implement the 24-hour monitoring, strengthen the protection of the habitat of migratory birds to crack down on the use of poison, netting, shootings, under the cover means illegal hunting, killing migratory birds, migration, migratory birds criminal acts. Police on duty also increased efforts to advocate for the protection of wild animals, in order to improve the awareness of the masses on the protection of wild animals, and to ensure that migratory birds successfully passed in Chifeng City.
