Panda Home Captured By Infrared Camera
Recently, the forestry department set up two infrared trigger cameras at the spiral cliff of Jinsixia Scenic Area in Xinkailing Provincial Nature Reserve to record the living habits of national second-level key protected animals such as goral, golden pheasant, red-billed blue magpie, wild boar, and wild badgers by taking photos and videos. This is the first time that infrared automatic trigger cameras have been used to shoot wild animals in the wild.
Xinkailing Provincial Nature Reserve is located in the hinterland of Xinkailing Mountains in the southwest and south of Danjiang. It is 72 kilometers away from the city and covers an area of 14,963 hectares. It focuses on the protection of the northern subtropical broad-leaved forest ecosystem and is one of the concentrated distribution areas of rare animal and plant species in the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi.
In recent years, more than 10 forestry surveyors from the forestry department have carried out scientific research and monitoring work in Xinkailing Nature Reserve, adding 20 boundary markers, burying 203 boundary stakes, and completing the layout of 20 sample plots and 10 sample lines; setting up 3 wildlife monitoring points and building an intelligent monitoring system. On this basis, from January 12 to March 19 this year, forestry department staff deployed 17 infrared automatic trigger cameras in the wild in Xinkailing Nature Reserve to improve the monitoring and protection level of animals in the reserve, especially national protected animals.
According to Wang Gang, a senior engineer of the Forestry Bureau, after using infrared automatic trigger cameras for monitoring, gorals were photographed many times in the buffer zone and some experimental areas of the reserve. According to the discovery of many goral feces, the number of gorals in the reserve should be relatively large. In recent years, with the implementation of projects such as the Tianbao Project and the Qinling Ecological Protection Vegetation Restoration Project, the vegetation and ecological environment of the reserve have been restored, providing a good living environment for wild animals. The number of wild animal populations has continued to increase, indicating that the biodiversity of the Xinkailing Reserve has been protected and rare wild animals can survive and reproduce well in the reserve.
