Migration of Migratory Birds
In Jundu Mountain, Yanqing, red-crested pochard flies freely.
Two black-crowned night herons play in the Lin Cao Forest and Grassland Park of the Wild Duck Lake Wetlands.
Spring is beautiful, Beijing welcomes a large number of migratory birds, and all 88 terrestrial wildlife epidemic and disease monitoring stations are fully staffed, conducting 24-hour monitoring of migratory birds.
Approximately 200 monitoring station staff record the species and number of birds in the station area every day, and promptly rescue injured birds.
Beijing is a vital migratory route for many birds in the spring and autumn. In addition to Wild Duck Lake and Mǐyín Reservoir, there are also a large number of migratory birds in Nanhai Zi and Da Shi He in Daxing and Fangshan respectively.
Beijing Municipal Bureau of Parks and Greenery, Wild Plants and Wetlands Protection Office Director Zhang ZhiMing introduced that through years of greening and construction, the total forest and wetland area of Beijing has been continuously increasing, and in 2019, the city added 280,000 acres of greening and urban green space of 803 hectares. Currently, the city's forest coverage rate reaches 44%, the forest coverage rate of the plains area reaches 29.6%, and the urban green coverage rate reaches 48.46%, and the ecological environment is continuously improving.
People's Daily (2020/03/24, Page 12)
(Editor: Li Qiangqiang, Gao Hongxia)
