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 young birds are not well fed, humans and workers are feeding. Lu Bao, the first generation of the wormwood herder and former deputy director of the Shaanxi Hanzhong Red Crane National Nature Reserve Administration, recalled the memory of Zhong.
The red-crowned crane was 24-hour custody during the breeding period, and the villagers also participated. Gradually, the red-crowned crane became almost a consensus among people in Yangxian County. In June 1985, China and Japan signed the “Minutes of the China-Japan Conference on Cooperation and Research on Red Crane Crane”. From then on, the two countries began a joint cooperation in protecting Red Crane Crane.
The then Director of the National Red Crane Crane Nature Reserve in Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province, Ding Haihua recalled that in the early 1980s, Japan provided a lot of assistance to China in saving and protecting the red Crane Crane, especially when providing equipment and financial assistance during the Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw.
From 1981 to 1990, the population of wild red-crowned cranes has always been around 10, and from 1991 to 2000, the population has increased from 10.To 102. In 2000, the World Union for Conservation of Nature adjusted the threat level of red-crowned cranes from extremely dangerous to endangered, which marked a significant phased achievement in the protection of red-crowned cranes in China.
From 1985 to 1995, China sent the red-crowned cranes to Japan several times and “marriage” with the Japanese red-crowned cranes, 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, Seigo Hirayama, who was then the governor of Niigata Prefecture, found relevant Chinese personnel and sincerely told the Japanese people that they longed for a healthy pair of red-crowned cranes. In January 1999, as a gift from China to Japan, the red-crowned crane “Youyou” and “Yangyang” arrived at the Sado Red-crowned crane protection center.
In May of that year, “Youyou” and “Yangyang” gave birth to their only son, and 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, 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.
The 20 years afterwards, Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, 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 craneBabaylan 1990 cloth draw flew over Japan again. Currently, the total number of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw has reached more than 700, of which the number of wild animals has increased to more than 500. The habitat has spread to Sado City, Nagaoka City, Babaylan 1990 cloth draw, and Izumo City. draw, Shimaone 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 Babaylan 1990 cloth draw Exchange Square, where tourists can observe the daily life of the Red-Crane in the iron cage from a close distance.
According to the relevant memorandum of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, Japan needs to return half of the juvenile cranes to China to provide, and it has been implemented in 2002 and has been implemented seven times until 2016, with a total of 47 red-crowned cranes returning to China.
Among them, seven red-crowned cranes who returned to China in 2013 were transferred to the Rare Animal and Flora and Flora Protection Center in Guangdong Province. In July 2018, Chimelong exhibited the first eight red-crowned young birds born in the Bird Park, all of which 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.
43 years have passed, and my country’s red-crowned cranesThe number of foreign populations 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 Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw population.
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. It has toured Japan three times and appeared at the Lincoln Art Center in New York, showing China’s aesthetics and charm. 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 Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw was, in the last row of the audience, they pulled up a long banner, and the last few words were ‘Chinese and Japanese friendsCinema 1950witch cloth drawOkay, eternal, thank you’. “The starring actor Zhu Jiejing said in an interview.
Another imaginative work is also being promoted. Through the wildization of the red-crowned cranes on the eastern coast, the red-crowned cranes migratory population running through the north and south in history.
(Reference materials: CCTV News, Xinhua News Agency, Beijing Youth Daily, China News Network, Guangming Daily, Reference News Network, Overseas Network, Documentary Humanities Channel, The Paper, Shangguan News, etc.)
Topic Host | Reporter Yang Chuying