95% of the World's White Cranes Gather in Momoge

According to the latest statistics from several bird-watching stations of Momoge National Nature Reserve, the population of white cranes - first-grade State protection wild animal which stopped at Momoge reached 3045, accounting for about 95% of the world's species population. White cranes cumulatively stop over in our province for up to 3 to 4 months each spring and autumn, and the time for stopping and the population to stop can be top of the world.
Momoge Nature Reserve is located east of Zhenlai County, with a total area of 144,000 hectares. It has a total of 298 kinds of birds, including. This is an important place for the migratory birds to stop and breed. The Nature Reserve designated three core protection areas, and established a total of 5 protection stations, 4 checkpoints and multiple bird watching stations, 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.

In recent years, the Nature Reserve has improved the ecological environment of the Nature Reserve by establishing long-term water replenishing mechanism, artificial restoration of vegetation, building remote monitoring system, to create a paradise of stopover for birds. The Nature Reserve has recovered 47,000 hectares of habitat for crane, stork and other rare and endangered bird species, accounting for 90% of the core area of Nature Reserve.

It has built rice field water recession pumping stations, 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 .