Through more than 30 years of development, the 'Wild Horse Returning Home' Project has accumulated a lot of experience when it comes to releasing the animals and has provided a good reference and model for the reintroduction of other species in China.Д¬hinese diagonal gazelle: a guaranteed futureДЄt their darkest days, the population of Chinese diagonal gazelle was less than 300, no more than giant pandas. The Kalamaili reserve had 274, 10 times the number in 2001.ДЄccording to Yang, the number of Przewalski's horses needs to reach about 2,500 to form a stable population in the wild.

Przewalski's horses Photo: VCG Yang Jianming, director of the Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding and Research Center, told the Global Times that after more than 30 years of hard work, the Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding and Research Center has successfully bred over 800 wild horses across six generations, making it the largest breeding base for Przewalski's horses in the world.Д«y 2020, the number of Przewalski's horses in Xinjiang had grown to 484, including 274 horses in the wild, 113 horses in semi-captivity and 97 horses in captivity, according to the Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding and Research Center. On August 28, 2001, China successfully returned the first group of Przewalski's horses to the Kalamaili Ungulate Nature Reserve in Xinjiang. Once extinct in China due to excessive poaching and environmental degradation, China started reintroducing Przewalski's horses from the UK, the US and Germany in 1985, mainly raising the precious creatures in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. With an evolutionary history of more than 60 million years, Przewalski's horse is believed to be the only truly wild horse species in existence today. 'We are now confident to say that the HZMB Bridge takes the lead in environmental protection among world-class super-large bridges.' Monitoring and surveys of the dolphins in Lingding Bay and in their other habitats are still going on, Meng said. Workers' vigilance was important during the construction, and was helped by training and education. The number of piers was strictly curtailed from an initial 318 to 224, Meng also noted. The construction team was not allowed to conduct large-scale excavation work that could cause floating rubbish during the peak breeding season for white dolphins from April to August. The rare Chinese white dolphin is under first class state protection, and primarily lives in the Pearl River Estuary in southeastern China.ДЄ Chinese white dolphin Photo: ICMeng Fanchao, chief designer of the bridge, said in a recent exclusive interview with the Global Times that the team constantly revised design schemes to minimize disturbance to the dolphins, such as shortening the construction period and cutting the number of piers that dolphins could collide with. To meet the Chinese government's priority to preserve the natural habitat for white dolphins, the construction of the HZMB that started in 2009 devoted funds of 340 million yuan ($52.76m) for the protection efforts. There have been many efforts by the design team to control the ecological impact of the bridge, under the guidance of national-level biodiversity programs. The Global Times has collected five untold stories of some previously endangered animals and plants, which will illustrate China's efforts in maintaining biodiversity in a broader sense.Д¬hina's wisdom in minimizing environmental harm when building the world's longest sea crossing bridge - Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) - which runs across the water that is the primary habitat for Chinese white dolphins, has served as a science-oriented inspiration for averting risks to marine life. The first phase of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), has come to a successful conclusion in Kunming, Yunnan Province in Southwest China. However, there are still many stories of rare wildlife species that are yet to be shared. Cases of population restoration of species such as giant pandas, Asian elephants, and snow leopards are familiar to people around the world. Chinese diagonal gazelles living in Northwest China's Qinghai Province Photo: Courtesy of Ge Yuxiu Editor's Note:Д¬hina has made great strides in protecting the environment and maintaining biodiversity in the past decades.

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