January 15th (Correspondent Long Ting, Chen Tian, Lu Anzhong) Recently, forestry bureau staff entered the hinterland of the nature reserve to deploy infrared camera equipment, and further strengthen the monitoring of the protected area through scientific and technological means.
Wild animals often appear in the deep mountains where few people go. Forestry bureau staff carry infrared camera equipment across mountains and ridges. With rich patrol experience, they skillfully install and debug infrared camera equipment at the location where animals may appear, and then rush to the next deployment point. After the equipment is started, these cameras that silently "squat" may record the "shadows" of wild animals.
Lu Anzhong, a senior engineer of the Forestry Bureau, said: "Most animals are nocturnal, and it is difficult to monitor them during the day, so we collect this data by deploying infrared cameras in these key areas."
At present, a total of 14 infrared cameras have been deployed in the core area of the nature reserve. Whenever a wild animal passes by, its body temperature will cause a temperature difference with the ambient temperature, causing heat changes around the camera. After the sensor receives the change and triggers the camera's shooting function, the camera will automatically record the animal's behavior.
"The battery of this device needs to be replaced every 3 to 6 months, so if we find any problem during the patrol, we will replace it in time. The longer the monitoring time, the greater the chance of monitoring wild animals." said Lu Anzhong, a senior engineer of the Forestry Bureau.
In recent years, the concept of "Green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains" has been implemented, and the forest chief system has been used as the general grasp. The protection of forest resources has been strengthened through scientific and technological means, and a special protection team has been established to strengthen field patrols and guards in key areas, and special operations have been carried out to combat the destruction of wild animals.
Yang Tangqun, deputy director of the Forestry Bureau, introduced that in recent years, the county has formed an 870-person ecological forest ranger team for patrols, and organized staff to use scientific and technological means to monitor the distribution and activity patterns of terrestrial wild animal populations in the region. At the same time, it has cooperated with other law enforcement departments such as the forest police to crack down on illegal hunting and trafficking of wild animals, achieving good results.
The biodiversity is rich. According to the survey, there are 203 families, 877 genera and 2021 species of plants in the territory, and 369 species of terrestrial vertebrate wild animals in 107 families and 28 orders, including 8 species of first-class national protected wild animals and plants, such as white-necked long-tailed pheasant, Chinese merganser, southern yew, etc.; 108 species of second-class national protected wild animals and plants, such as silver pheasant, mandarin duck, leopard cat, golden dog fern, etc.; 4 new Chinese species, including Dong palm toad, scattered pseudo-lock fungus, channel rough pore fungus and Xiangfei water water, and 4 new record species in Hunan Province, including Leishan harp frog, black ground tongue fungus, light handle roadside mushroom and pseudo-gum fungus, were also found.
"In the next step, we will continue to strive for financial support from the central, provincial and municipal governments, and use more scientific and technological means to strengthen monitoring and play a better role in ecological protection." Yang Tangqun said.