Photo: David J. Stang | Wikimedia
At noon, Ding Zeliang carries a bucket of fish to feed the Yangtze finless porpoises in Tian'ezhou National Nature Reserve in central China's Hubei province. Dubbed a ‘smiling angel’, the once-endangered porpoise now appears frequently in the Hubei section of China’s longest river, the Yangtze, thanks to conservation. Other endangered creatures in the river basin are also returning. The milu deer are nicknamed "sibuxiang," or "animal like none of the four," given their horse-like face, donkey-like tail, cow-like hooves, and stag-like antlers. In the 1990s, the Shishou Milu Deer National Nature Reserve introduced 64 milu deer from abroad in two batches. Its complete wetland ecosystem and vast pastureland is an ideal habitat for milu deer, which have grown to around 2,500. The Shennongjia golden monkey population has grown from about 500 in 1990 to 1,483 as of July, thanks to the Shennongjia Forestry District.
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