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Lonely, rewarding work in the wild
By Lu Xiaofengand Chen Qianqing |
October 26, 2009, Monday
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JU Jin, the wildlife inspector, took his digital camera, telescope, the "Book of Common Birds in Shanghai" and his work diary to the monitoring site by motorcycle at 7am on October 16.
"I have to finish all the work before 9am and report it to the station by 10am," says 28-year-old Ju with a smile. This has been his daily routine since 2007 when he took the position.
In recent years, protection has been enhanced and the ecological environment gradually improved. The result is that the number of wildlife species in Jiading have been growing year by year.
So far inspectors have discovered 102 species in Jiading.
These include 86 birds, three beasts including the red-bellied tree squirrel (callosciurus erythraeus), a south China hare (lepus) and hedgehog, six amphibians like the Chinese toad and microhyla ornata, and seven reptiles like the zaocys snake and red dot rat snake.
In the district there are eight inspectors like Ju working in one municipal-level monitoring site in Jiabao Woods and three district-level monitoring sites.
The sites cover an area of 330 hectares. The municipal site has a record of 61 different kinds of birds, accounting for 95 percent of the district's common birds.
Ju's office is in a two-story building inside Jiabao Woods. It's a hard-to-find spot.
"Normally people don't come here. All I can interact with are animals," says Ju.
When Ju first took the job as an inspector, he knew nothing about wildlife. But under the guidance of an experienced forest ranger, his knowledge of all the animals in Jiabao Woods increased.
"To do the job you need patience and passion, otherwise you can't hold on," says the inspector. Despite the loneliness of operating with the wildlife, Ju feels happy when he hears birds singing.
In March, Ju was told that a rare species of birds had been found in Baiqiang Village of Jiading Industrial Zone.
He rushed to the place and found it was a kestrel which belongs to the group of wildlife under national second-class protection.
Ju took the injured kestrel to the forest station for treatment by experts and eventually released it into the wild.
Another duty of a wildlife inspector is to observe incidences of disease. In May last year, Ju discovered a dead bird during his inspection and contacted the station. After checking it out, the experts eliminated the possibility of flu infection.
Each site runs daily inspections and keeps a monitoring record. The statistics are reported to the district station by 10am. After the information is collated, the district station reports it to the municipal station by 11am. So far there hasn't been any case of infectious disease in Jiading yet.
"I have to finish all the work before 9am and report it to the station by 10am," says 28-year-old Ju with a smile. This has been his daily routine since 2007 when he took the position.
In recent years, protection has been enhanced and the ecological environment gradually improved. The result is that the number of wildlife species in Jiading have been growing year by year.
So far inspectors have discovered 102 species in Jiading.
These include 86 birds, three beasts including the red-bellied tree squirrel (callosciurus erythraeus), a south China hare (lepus) and hedgehog, six amphibians like the Chinese toad and microhyla ornata, and seven reptiles like the zaocys snake and red dot rat snake.
In the district there are eight inspectors like Ju working in one municipal-level monitoring site in Jiabao Woods and three district-level monitoring sites.
The sites cover an area of 330 hectares. The municipal site has a record of 61 different kinds of birds, accounting for 95 percent of the district's common birds.
Ju's office is in a two-story building inside Jiabao Woods. It's a hard-to-find spot.
"Normally people don't come here. All I can interact with are animals," says Ju.
When Ju first took the job as an inspector, he knew nothing about wildlife. But under the guidance of an experienced forest ranger, his knowledge of all the animals in Jiabao Woods increased.
"To do the job you need patience and passion, otherwise you can't hold on," says the inspector. Despite the loneliness of operating with the wildlife, Ju feels happy when he hears birds singing.
In March, Ju was told that a rare species of birds had been found in Baiqiang Village of Jiading Industrial Zone.
He rushed to the place and found it was a kestrel which belongs to the group of wildlife under national second-class protection.
Ju took the injured kestrel to the forest station for treatment by experts and eventually released it into the wild.
Another duty of a wildlife inspector is to observe incidences of disease. In May last year, Ju discovered a dead bird during his inspection and contacted the station. After checking it out, the experts eliminated the possibility of flu infection.
Each site runs daily inspections and keeps a monitoring record. The statistics are reported to the district station by 10am. After the information is collated, the district station reports it to the municipal station by 11am. So far there hasn't been any case of infectious disease in Jiading yet.
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