Suzhou Forestry Station and Soochow University conducted a program surveillance wild animals along the Suzhou section of the Yangtze River from 2022 to 2023. A total of 300 species of terrestrial wild animals were tape-recorded, consisting of six varieties of amphibians (4 family members in one order), 7 types of reptiles (4 family members in one order), 277 varieties of birds (56 households in 19 orders) and 10 varieties of mammals (7 family members in five orders). Amongst them, there are 8 species of nationwide first-level safeguarded pets and 49 types under second-level state protection.
The Suzhou section of the Yangtze River has actually become an optimal habitat for several uncommon and endangered protected animals, including such national first-level safeguarded pets as Dalmatian pelicans, black-faced spoonbills, Oriental storks, scaly-sided mergansers, Baer’s pochards, hooded cranes, Saunders’s gulls, and yellow-breasted buntings. The Baer’s pochard and yellow-breasted pennant have actually been noted as Critically Endangered types by the International Union for Preservation of Nature.
The variety of rare bird types along the Suzhou area of the Yangtze River is raising year by year, and so are their populations. In the Changyinsha sample site in Zhangjiagang, greater than 3,000 Baikal teals, a national second-level safeguarded animal, were taped in this program. The populace of amphibians has also skilled secure development.
The surveillance program tape-recorded 10 species of animals coming from seven families in five orders. Of note the infrared camera established in Xiangshan Hill, Zhangjiagang recorded the image of Malayan porcupines, a species that has not been seen in Suzhou for many years.
