Ensure the smooth breeding of the red-crowned crane was the most important task at that time. In order to prevent snakes from climbing up trees and injuring young birds, they tie blades on the trunks; to prevent young birds from falling out of their nests, they pull soft nets under the tree; when they find that there is insufficient food for feeding young birds, they feed them manually. Lu Baozhong, the first generation of the herdsman and former deputy director of the Shaanxi Hanzhong Red Crane National Nature Reserve Administration, recalled. During the breeding period of the red-crowned crane, the red-crowned crane was custodian at 24 hours a day, and the village people also participated, and gradually the red-crowned crane almost became a consensus among Yangxian people.
In June 1985, China and Japan signed the “Minutes of the China-Japan Conference on Joint Protection and Research on Red Crane Crane”. From this time, the two countries began to jointly protect Red Crane Crane. Ding Haihua, director of the National Red-crowned Crane of Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province, recalled that in the early 1980s, Japan provided a lot of assistance to China in saving and protecting the Red-crowned Crane, especially providing timely equipment and financial assistance.
198CinemaThe wild red-crowned crane population remained at about 10 from 1990, and the population increased from 10 to 102 from 1991 to 2000. In 2000, the World Union for Conservation of Nature adjusted the threat level of red-crowned cranes from extremely dangerous to endangered, which marked the obvious phased results of China’s red-crowned crane protection.
From 1985 to 1995, China sent the red-crowned crane to Japan several times and “married” with the Japanese red-crowned crane, but failed. But Japan has not stopped its efforts to recover the red-crowned crane.
In November 1998, taking advantage of the opportunity of Chinese leaders’ visit to Japan, Maeo Hirayama, who was then the governor of Niigata Prefecture.We found relevant Chinese personnel and sincerely informed the Japanese people of their desire for a healthy pair of red-crowned cranes. In January 1999, as a gift from China to Japan, the red-crowned crane “Friends” and “Yangyang” arrived at the Zodou Red-crowned crane protection center.
In May of that year, “Youyou” and “Yangyang” gave birth to their only son. The Japanese people were obsessed with it. After public votes, they named “Youyou”, symbolizing softness and beauty. When it was born, major Japanese TV stations broadcast live on site, which was no less lively than the sensation caused by the giant panda “Xiangxiang”.
Red-crowned cranes fly from the Qinling Mountains to the world
The ultimate goal of protecting red-crowned cranes is to bring them back to nature. During the more than 20 years afterwards, my country has successively exported many red-crowned cranes such as “Meimei”, “Overflow”, and “Huayang” to Japan to help Japan rebuild its red-crowned crane population. The once-extinct red-crowned cranes flew over Japan again, and the total number has reached more than 700 Babaylan, of which the number of wild Cinema has increased to more than 500, and the habitats have spread to Sado City, Nagaoka City, Izumo City, Shimone Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture and other places.
On holidays, many tourists from other places come to Sado Island by boat just to see the red-crowned crane. The Red-Crane Forest Park has a Red-Crane Exchange Square, where visitors can observe the daily life of the Red-Crane crane in the iron cage from a close distance.
According to relevant memorandums in Japan and China, Japan needs to return half of the red-crowned cranes provided by ChinaKomiksReturning to China, it has been implemented in 2002 and implemented seven times until 2016, with a total of 47 red-crowned cranes returning to China. Among them, seven red-crowned cranes returned to China in 2013 were transferred to the rare animal and plant protection center in Guangdong Province. In July 2018, Chimelong exhibited the first eight red-crowned young birds born in the Cinema Park in Feiniaole. All of them are descendants of red-crowned birds provided to Japan by China.
According to the Ministry of Environment of Japan, the red-crowned crane returned this time was born at the Sado Red-crowned crane protection center between 2016 and 2022. There are 9 females and 7 males. After the feeding preparations for the Beijing Zoo are ready, these red-crowned cranes will be officially accepted.
43Komiks years have passed, and the number of wild populations of red-crowned cranes in China has increased from 7 to more than 7,000, and the threat level of red-crowned cranes has been reduced from extreme danger to endangered.
The habitat area of the red-crowned crane is also expanding, from less than 5 square kilometers to 15,000 square kilometers. The habitat is gradually restored from Yangxian, Shaanxi Province when it was first discovered to the historical distribution area of East Asia, and has settled in Shaanxi, Henan, Zhejiang and other places. With the support and help of China, South Korea has also established a wild population of red-crowned cranes.
Spread your wings among the sea of clouds, soaring thousands of miles away. The dance drama “Red Crane” with the red-crowned crane as the main character was released in 2014. In the past 10 years, it has performed more than 300 shows at home and abroad, and has toured Japan for three tours and appeared in Lincoln Art in New York.anheart, show Chinese aesthetics and aura. The “Cross Ichibana” in the play was once bloomed on the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Netizens commented: “Every frame is a painting.” In 2015, “Red Crane” toured 29 cities in Japan, and performed 57 shows in 64 days. At the end of the last performance, “Suddenly the audience lit up, the salutes and ribbons all flew up, and everyone on the stage was a little out of control. What moved me the most was that in the last row of the audience, they pulled up a long Cinema, and the last few words were ‘China-Japan Friendship Komiks Forever Green, Thank you.’.” The starring Zhu Jiejing said in an interview.
Another imaginative work is also being promoted. Through the wild release of the red-crowned cranes along the eastern coast, the migratory cranes that run through the north and south in history are rebuilt.
At present, all existing red-crowned cranes belong to the Yangxian population and are a residence-type population that does not migrate. According to experts, once the ecological functions of the two species of migration and the non-migration of Komiks, the red-crowned crane’s ability to adapt to climate and environmental changes will be greatly improved, and may completely get rid of the endangered state and will also provide Chinese solutions for the protection of endangered species in the world.
(Reference materials: CCTV News, Xinhua News Agency, Beijing Youth Daily, China News Network, Guangming Daily, Reference News Network, Overseas Network Komiks, Documentary Humanities Babaylan Channel, The Paper, Shangguan News, etc.)
Topic Host | Reporter Yang Chuying