Do you remember the story of the baiji dolphin "Kiki"?The baiji dolphin is a national first-class key protected animal in China, and "Qiqi" is the world's first successful captive-bred baiji dolphin, although it has been successfully raised for 22 years, it still fell asleep forever in 2002.
Since the baiji dolphin was declared functionally extinct, the two "flagship" creatures in the Yangtze River have been left with only the finless porpoise. The Yangtze finless porpoise, like the giant panda, belongs to the "star species", it is a national first-class key protected wild animal, and it is also the only cetacean dolphin living in the main stream of the Yangtze River, known as "the key indicator species of the Yangtze River water ecological environment quality".
The finless porpoise is the most intelligent animal in the Yangtze River. Someone once recorded a scene of nine finless porpoises "hunting" a school of fish at the same time. When they hunt for fish, nine finless porpoises form a circle and drive the fleeing fish together for easy hunting.
The finless porpoise has a round body and looks stupid, but it can swim up and down in the water, and its body can quickly make movements such as rolling, jumping, nodding, and spraying water, so it looks very cute and interesting!Many people love finless porpoises, but it's not easy to photograph them!
Because the time for the finless porpoise to come out of the water is only 0It's about 8 seconds, and the active window is only two or three minutes a day. When there are waves in the river, it is even more difficult to see the finless porpoise. Therefore, it is useless to just squat, you have to look at the time, weather, temperature, tide, etc., and you have to pay attention to the height and position of the drone. It's hard for ordinary people to be so professional!
Now, there is finally a good place to photograph finless porpoises "Finless Porpoise Bay". "Finless Porpoise Bay" is located in Gaoqiao Town, Dantu District, Zhenjiang City, where it is located in the Yangtze River Porpoise Provincial Nature Reserve, which is the earliest aquatic life nature reserve established in Jiangsu, and is the only water area among the 10 finless porpoise reserves that has not been opened up as the main channel of the Yangtze River.
But in the past, it was almost a luxury to see a finless porpoise. Busy shipping encroaches on the activity space, and the moving ships can easily cause injuries and even death of the finless porpoise, and factors such as mud mining, wild fishing, and environmental pollution make it difficult to find the finless porpoise.
To protect the Yangtze finless porpoise, it is necessary to guard the entire ecological chain in the sky, underground and water. Good water quality, less disturbance of the water environment, abundant fish and aquatic plant resources, is the secret of the stable habitat and breeding of the finless porpoise.
Takahashi people have paid a lot!The "Finless Porpoise Hospital" has been built to provide first-aid and first-aid care for the Yangtze finless porpoise in the reserve and the surrounding adjacent waters. It also shut down and dismantled 9 shipyards and 5 enterprises, and vacated 2 shorelines8 km, demolition of illegal buildings 360,000 square meters, so that the once roaring riverbank returned to tranquility. The sewage treatment plant strictly adheres to high standards, not only on the pretreatment system, but also directly connected with the province to report COD, ammonia nitrogen, and pH value in real time. They want to make sure that every stream of water that leads to the Yangtze River is clean.
Nowadays, Gaoqiao Town, which is surrounded by water on three sides, has a beautiful scenery!The nearly 60-square-kilometer finless porpoise reserve has become an important "safe haven" for the finless porpoise in the lower reaches of the Yangtze RiverOn the water surface and tidal flats, there are frequent vivid scenes of 'finless porpoises chasing waves' and 'fish and birds playing together', which attracts people and photography enthusiasts to go.
The finless porpoise has not followed the old path of the baiji dolphin, which is great!Nowadays, according to the scientific survey data of finless porpoises in the whole Yangtze River basin, the population of the Yangtze finless porpoise has experienced a trend of first declining and then increasing. With 1,800 in 2006, 1,045 in 2012, 1,012 in 2017 and 1,249 in 2022, experts say the ultimate goal is for the Yangtze finless porpoise to thrive. Jiangsu