The circle of friends of "the world's largest group of white cranes" is expanding

January 1985, a Xinhua News Agency team from the International Crane Foundation discovered the world's largest group of white cranes in Poyang Lake, focusing the world's attention on Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake. From the "fresh air, clean lake water" to the concept of sustainable development of harmonious coexistence between man and nature is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the changes in Poyang Lake District have witnessed the remarkable results of the construction of China's ecological civilization. Once endangered, the "circle of friends" is expanding.January 1985, Xinhua News Agency broadcast a news article written by a reporter from Jiangxi Branch entitled "Akibo's Expedition to the White Cranes of Poyang Lake".
At noon on January 13, 1985, George Akibo, then president of the International Crane Foundation, visited Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province, and the delegation and Chinese crane workers at the same time and at the same place a total of 1350 white cranes, of which 119 were young cranes. They identified it as the largest group of wild white cranes ever found in the world. "George said, 'This is one of the most spectacular and memorable scenes I've ever seen in my life, and it's a great miracle!'" the manuscript reads. In
nearly a million years, the number of crane species has been decreasing, and the white crane is one of the most precious species on the verge of extinction. Since June 1983, when the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government established the Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Poyang Lake, the number of white cranes here has increased year by year. In 1985, the Poyang Lake Migratory Bird Sanctuary covered an area of 24,000 hectares. Fresh air, clean lake water, Poyang Lake has become the ideal place for white cranes to live, its habitat and the number of white cranes let bird experts marvel.the light and shade, the same is a lake of Poyang Lake clear water. In January 2019, when George Aquibo revisited Poyang Lake 34 years later, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the number of white cranes had risen to nearly 4,000 in what was then the world's largest group of white cranes.
White Crane's "friends circle" in Poyang Lake continues to expand, now, every year from October to April, more than 98% of the world's white cranes inhabit the winter, in addition, the Oriental White Stork, swans and a large number of rare migratory birds also live here, the number of migratory birds up to more than 600,000. George visited Poyang Lake in January this year, said that the original white crane east, middle and west three migration routes, unfortunately, the central and western two migration routes due to war, poaching and other factors have been lost. The white cranes, which winter in poyang Lake, belong to the eastern migration route, flying south from the breeding grounds of northeastern Siberia through Russia and northern China. Based on the protection of ecological environment in the countries along the route, the habitat of the eastern white crane population is in good condition and stable.
years, as the first provinces in the whole country to be included in the first demonstration area of ecological civilization, the concept of sustainable development of harmonious coexistence between man and nature is deeply rooted in Jiangxi. In order to further protect migratory birds and improve the ecological benefits of Poyang Lake Wetlands, Jiangxi has expanded the scope of wetland ecological compensation from Poyang Lake International Important Wetlands to the entire Poyang Lake Area, effectively protecting the habitat environment of migratory birds, and cracking the dilemma of "people and birds competing for food" in Poyang Lake District. Many folk bird lovers also spontaneously set up bird protection associations, self-financing to establish private white crane protection community, through their own efforts to retain this migratory bird "paradise."the water and grass plump, blue waves, the vibrant Poyang Lake will be green into a "bottom color", writing the spirit of ecological civilization songs. "If you want to ask me what Poyang Lake means to the white crane, I think it is the life of the white crane, it is their home," said George Akibo. "good mountain good water value geometry? Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, handed over an ecological answer on the harmonious coexistence of man and nature with "a lake of clear water". Today's Jiangxi, is focusing on building ecological civilization construction of the "four pillars and eight pillars", out of a sustainable green development path, so that the sky is bluer, the mountains greener, water clearer.