In recent years, through the establishment of long-term water replenishing mechanism, the artificial vegetation restoration, the construction of remote monitoring system and other measures, Momoge National Nature Reserve has created the paradise of stopover for birds. It has rescued and restored 47,000 hectares of habitat for cranes, storks and other rare and endangered birds, accounting for 90% of important regional area of the Reserve. Today's Momoge Nature Reserve has shown a scene of green grass to the sky and flying orioles and cranes.
Momoge Nature Reserve mainly protects wetlands and rare and endangered waterfowls such as cranes and storks, which is an important place for the migratory birds from East Asia to stop and breed. There are 298 kinds of birds in the Reserve, including 10 kinds of first-grade State protection birds such as white cranes and red-crowned cranes. The cranes, classified by the World Conservation Union as one of the most endangered species and the first-grade State protection wild animals, stop at the Momoge wetlands up to two months in spring and autumn migration seasons of each year respectively, with the highest statistical number of more than 3,000, accounting for about 86% of the world population of the species.
As a result of years of drought, wetlands are shrinking. Momoge Nature Reserve has established the long-term water replenishing mechanism for wetlands to protect the environment for the survival of birds. It has built one rice field water recession pumping station in the paddy field new development zone, and restored 2000 hectares of breeding ground for red-crowned cranes; it has drawn water to the wetlands by making use of the flood drainage station, and restored 5,000 hectares of land for cranes to stop over; it has built one water lifting pumping station at Haernao Protection Station, and restored 15,000 hectares of migration cluster land for oriental white storks; it has made use of the water diversion project to Momoge to inject water to the core area and the southern area of Halata, and restored 10,000 hectares of wetlands; and the Moon Lake reservoir has restored 15,000 hectares of wetlands . Through such measures, since May of this year, a total of 50 million cubic meters of water has been injected to the wetlands.
In order to restore wetland vegetation, Momoge Nature Reserve has made a bold attempt to artificially transplant sedge deyeuxia angustifolia. Since 2006, five construction projects have been successfully implemented, and totally 6,700 hectares of wetlands have been restored.
According to the different distribution of key protection objects, three core protection areas have been designated. A total of five protection stations, 4 checkpoints and multiple bird watching stations have been established, and all the stations are interconnected with each other with close coordination, and a remote monitoring system has been built, to carry out a 24-hour monitoring of the habitats of white cranes, red-crowned cranes, oriental white storks, but also to implement all-round protection of other wetland birds.
