Thousands of critically endangered species of Thuja and a variety of national first-class protected animals and plants found in Sichuan

Xinhua News Agency, Chengdu, December 23 (Reporter Zhou Xiangji) The reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Forestry Department on the 23rd that Thuja cypress, designated as a critically endangered species by the World Conservation Union, was found in Sichuan, with a population of about 1,000

Long Tinglun of the Wildlife Resources Protection and Management Station of the Sichuan Provincial Forestry Department said that on December 16, he entered the Sichuan province with Professor Peng Peihao and his doctoral student Liu Xianan, master student Wang Xiaodong and local resident Mr.

According to reports, Thuja is a rare and endangered wild plant

Professor Yi Tongpei of Sichuan Agricultural University asserted in 1997 that there must be cypresses in the wild in Sichuan, and led his assistants and students to conduct field surveys in Dazhou City's Caesar Mountain, Batai Mountain and other places, but several surveys ended in disappointment

The State Forestry Administration launched the second national survey of wild plant resources in 2012

In the areas where thuja cypresses were found, the national first-class protected wild plant yew, the national first-class protected wild animal forest musk deer, as well as rare wild animals such as small deer and goral were also found