15 swans, 31 ducks die of poison at nature reserve
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January 15, 2013, Tuesday
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FIFTEEN swans have died after being poisoned in central China's Hunan Province, officials said yesterday.
Seventeen swans were found poisoned in the wetlands of Dongting Lake Sunday afternoon, said Gao Dali, chief of the security section with the East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve.
Only two swans, which are listed under China's second level of state animal protection, escaped death.
Thirty-one long-tailed ducks also were killed.
Police said poison was placed near the waters of the nature reserve and they are gathering evidence to make arrests.
A patrol team of experts and volunteers has been set up to prevent similar incidents.
Dongting Lake is located on the lower basin of the Yangtze River and is the second largest freshwater lake in China. The lake area is an important wintering ground for more than 200 species of birds, some of which are under first-level state protection, according to nature reserve statistics.
The poisoning is not the first case at the lake. Last month, a farmer surnamed Sun was detained for poisoning more than 20 migrant birds including wild geese and ducks in the same region.
A similar incident occurred in Beidagang Wetland Nature Reserve in north China's Tianjin City in November, where 20 oriental white storks were found dead and another 13 were sickened in wetlands tainted by highly toxic pesticide.
Seventeen swans were found poisoned in the wetlands of Dongting Lake Sunday afternoon, said Gao Dali, chief of the security section with the East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve.
Only two swans, which are listed under China's second level of state animal protection, escaped death.
Thirty-one long-tailed ducks also were killed.
Police said poison was placed near the waters of the nature reserve and they are gathering evidence to make arrests.
A patrol team of experts and volunteers has been set up to prevent similar incidents.
Dongting Lake is located on the lower basin of the Yangtze River and is the second largest freshwater lake in China. The lake area is an important wintering ground for more than 200 species of birds, some of which are under first-level state protection, according to nature reserve statistics.
The poisoning is not the first case at the lake. Last month, a farmer surnamed Sun was detained for poisoning more than 20 migrant birds including wild geese and ducks in the same region.
A similar incident occurred in Beidagang Wetland Nature Reserve in north China's Tianjin City in November, where 20 oriental white storks were found dead and another 13 were sickened in wetlands tainted by highly toxic pesticide.
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