Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 248 Life is born in this beautiful morning
It was still dark when Chen Ying and the others set out.

The sun rises around 14: and sets at : in the evening, so the total daylight time is about hours.

But by around 5:40, the sky was gradually getting brighter and I could see the scenery along the road.

"Brother Ying, look ahead. I feel like there's a car passing by here. It wasn't long ago."

Chen Ying took a closer look and found that the tire tracks were quite fresh, with water marks on them.

"How about we go back and take a look? Did these cars come in through formal channels?"

Yin Li stopped the car on the side of the road and made a phone call.

After a few minutes, his expression relaxed.

"It's a scientific expedition team that came in to investigate the water source environment. They left about two hours earlier than us."

Just know the origin.

He just said that there had been no poachers in the reserve for more than ten years, so it was impossible for them to run into them.

"We're doing a hydrogeological survey. I think they're heading in the same direction as us. We'll be setting up camp by the lake tonight."

After walking for more than 40 kilometers, there is endless grassland on both sides of the road.

This area is a buffer zone outside the nature reserve, with barbed wire fences on both sides of the road to make it convenient for tourists to watch the occasional wild animals that appear on the roadside.

The barbed wire exists to prevent tourists from entering the grassland without permission, damaging the environment, and possibly attracting attacks from wild animals.

After passing the buffer zone of the nature reserve, there are no more roads to travel on, and that is when you are closest to wild animals.

"The latest surveyed buffer zone is 20,000 square kilometers. This time we went there, entered the no-man's land from the east, and reached the outskirts of Zhuonai Lake. It is estimated that we will not withdraw until late July."

Chen Ying calculated the time. Wouldn't it be more than twenty days?

"It's impossible for us to stay there all the time. Several guard stations take turns to be on duty. We will probably stay there for seven or eight days this time."

The main purpose of the guard is to prevent poachers and adventurers who cross the border illegally from disturbing the Tibetan antelopes that are giving birth.

Although poaching has been eradicated for more than a decade, we cannot relax our efforts to prevent theft for even a moment.

In addition, humans are not allowed to interfere with predation between wild animals, but young Tibetan antelopes that have lost their mothers can be taken away from here and placed in management stations to be fed until they can live on their own, and then released back into the group.

When Yin Li came to pick up Chen Ying this time, he did not go back to his own management station, but made an appointment with his teammates to meet at the entrance of the nature reserve.

Two vehicles, seven people, with enough food, fresh water and emergency supplies. After a brief discussion of the itinerary, Yin Li took the lead and began to go to the camp in the no-man's land to exchange supplies.

Along the way, Ji Xin kept taking pictures and found everything he saw new and interesting.

But after walking for a while, he began to suffer from mild altitude sickness.

Chen Ying was lucky enough, as the nature reserve where he was located was considered a plateau, and he often went up to areas above 3,500 meters to patrol and provide rescue services. He was also mentally prepared, so altitude sickness had not yet affected him.

After taking the medicine, Ji Xin lay down in the back to rest, while Chen Ying used his mobile phone to record the scenery and animals along the way.

During the lunch break, their two cars stopped together, ready to eat something, rest and continue on their journey.

While eating, Chen Ying felt as if there was some movement behind him. He slowly turned around and saw a silly groundhog standing on the mound, staring at him with its eyes wide open.

"Hi, little guy." Chen Ying greeted it subconsciously.

The groundhog opened its eyes wide and suddenly opened its mouth and made a sound.

(Frightened Groundhog)
"Ah, there's a Twoleg here saying hello to me!"

Chen Ying's smile slowly disappeared.

He really couldn't accept the fact that there was no marmot among the Three Idiots of the Plateau.

The other team members who were attracted by the marmot couldn't help laughing when they saw the marmot's frightened expression.

Ji Xin, who was leaning on Yin Li's shoulder and feeling a little uncomfortable, endured the discomfort and picked up the camera to capture this magical photo.

The call of the marmot attracted its peers to come and see the two-legged beast.

"Where, where, which two-legged animal can understand us?"

The scene of a group of marmots gathering together gave Chen Ying the illusion that he was an animal being watched.

Without saying anything else, they hurriedly finished their lunch and got in the car and continued driving.

Didn't see many animals the whole afternoon.

Marmots are the most common species, followed by plateau vultures and eagles.

There were more animal traces on the road near the lake where we stayed overnight.

This is probably because the sky is gradually turning into dusk, which is the peak time for animals to come out to look for food.

Just a few kilometers along the way, they saw a mother sand fox and her three cubs.

There was also a nest of prairie rabbits jumping around freely.

A hawk swooped down from the sky, grabbed a fat rabbit and flew up.

The mother sand fox's hunting was interrupted and she breathed out fragrance into the air.

Turning around to look at the three hungry children, he could only continue looking for the next target.

"Hey, look, there are people camping over there."

Five vehicles formed a semicircle to protect the tent.

Someone was walking around nearby, and after seeing them, he became a little wary.

Yin Li thought about it and asked his men to be on guard. He walked forward about ten meters, greeted the other people and asked them where they came from.

There were obvious markings on the car Yin Li was driving.

The other party must have seen it, so they relaxed their guard and two people came out.

After talking and checking the documents of both parties, Yin Li told them that he would find a place to rest nearby and leave tomorrow. The scientific expedition team would stay here for two or three days to investigate whether the situation of the lake was significantly different from the results of the last survey.

They only had two cars and set up two tents, each of which could accommodate three people.

People on guard duty at night can sleep in the car.

But you can't stay in the car for a long time, you have to change seats every two to three hours.

Fortunately, it is summer now, which is the season with the most suitable temperature. A lightweight down sleeping bag is enough for overnight.

If it is winter, there is not much difference between the inside and outside of the tent. If there is a snowstorm, the tent may collapse in the middle of the night.

"You guys take a rest first, we'll chat for a while."

Seeing that Ji Xin was in a bad mental state, several veteran team members directly sent him to bed.

Chen Ying was afraid that he would feel uncomfortable in the tent without anyone knowing, so she followed him in.

"Brother Ying, they said there would be wolves here at night..."

"You better shut up right now, the little crow is not likable."

Chen Ying patted Ji Xin's sleeping bag and asked him to put on an eye mask and go to sleep quickly.

You're already suffering from altitude sickness, why are you still excited?

It's just over 4,000 meters. Once you enter the hinterland, you will reach the place where Tibetan antelopes are born. The altitude is about 5,000 meters. Without a strong physique, it is impossible to cope with the troubles caused by the lack of oxygen in the plateau.

Young people are young people. It’s only midnight and he is already full of energy.

Chen Ying was worried about his altitude sickness and didn't sleep much.

I heard him sit up and opened my eyes.

"Brother Ying, I heard some noises."

Ji Xin leaned close to Chen Ying and whispered, "It sounds like a wolf howling."

Chen Ying listened carefully and, sure enough, heard faint wolf howling sounds.

Yin Li suddenly spoke up, "Don't listen, go to sleep, there are wolves outside, quite a few of them. But the wolves won't attack us easily, there are still team members on night watch outside, they will find a way to scare them away."

Generally in this situation, the team members in the car will turn on the headlights to scare away the wolves.

In addition, the distance between them and the scientific expedition team is not far, so if there is any movement here, the scientific expedition team will not stand idly by.

Chen Ying asked Ji Xin to continue sleeping while he planned to go out and take a look at the situation.

Yin Li didn't worry about him. He yawned and went to sleep.

There was someone else who could take over the driving shift in the other car, so he could probably only swap driving with Chen Ying.

But Chen Ying was not familiar with the situation at all and did not dare to let him take action.

Chen Ying came out of the tent and happened to meet two team members on duty who were changing shifts.

"Brother Ying, do you want to go to the bathroom?"

"No, I came out to check the situation. There seem to be quite a few wolves around?"

"Well, the Tibetan antelopes are migrating to Zhuonai Lake, and those carnivores will also go there. They will not disperse until the end of July or August."

Chen Ying picked up the infrared telescope and took a look, and his scalp felt a little tingling.

A brown bear was standing on a mound about 500 meters away from them, looking at this side.

Chen Ying handed the binoculars to the team member on duty and said, "That brown bear shouldn't come over here."

The team members also picked it up and looked at it for a while, then shook their heads.

"That shouldn't be the case. The brown bear might have followed the wolves here. There are many animals around this lake, and the tributaries that flow into the lake are their drinking water areas."

Sure enough, a few minutes later, the brown bear disappeared. I wonder if it went out to have a midnight snack under the cover of darkness.

At six in the morning, everyone got up and packed up to leave.

Groups of wild yaks were wandering on the meadow in the distance, as well as a large group of wild donkeys.

"There are quite a lot of Tibetan wild donkeys here, at least over a hundred of them."

"Almost. There are more Tibetan wild donkeys in the riverside area. There are at least 70,000 to 80,000 Tibetan wild donkeys in the entire reserve."

This season is also the breeding season for Tibetan wild donkeys.

Their gestation period lasts almost a year, so this is also the peak breeding period for Tibetan wild donkeys.

In the early morning sunshine, Chen Ying witnessed the birth of a little donkey.

When a female donkey realizes that she is about to give birth, she will leave the herd and run back and forth to promote delivery.

Finally, it gave birth to a little donkey with great difficulty.

The little donkey lay on the ground for a few minutes, and then began to try to support its body with its delicate limbs.

This lasted for nearly twenty minutes before the little donkey finally stood up steadily and accepted being licked and fed by its mother.

The first mouthful of milk after birth is the best food for donkeys. After that, they will adapt to grassland life as quickly as possible and learn from their parents how to avoid natural enemies.

This "accident" in the early morning delayed our departure a little, but we were able to capture precious video footage of the entire birth process of the Tibetan wild donkey, so the half-hour wait was worth it.

Chen Ying originally wanted to go over and take a look at the situation. It would be even better if she could measure the physical data of the Tibetan wild donkey cub and its mother with her own hands.

But time waits for no one, and there are too many people and animals nearby, which makes it difficult for him to display his great talents and skills. He can only say goodbye to the mother and son with regret.

I had originally planned to resume normal updates today, but yesterday's chapter was updated in advance the night before yesterday, so I had no choice but to postpone today's chapter to yesterday.

Plus I watched Heimalou’s live broadcast for the whole afternoon, so it’s too late to update two chapters at the same time. I’ll post the second update at noon.

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