On November 22, 2023, the weather was sunny. When returning to our place from the Yunpan Management and Conservation Center, we decided to go to the Shennongding Management and Conservation Center in the afternoon to experience the life in high mountains. The Shennongding Center is the highest conservation center in the Shennongjia National Park, where Xiao Chuanhua, Shennongjia’s first winner of the “Green Guard” award of the Chinese Biosphere Reserves Network (CBRN), was trained. The center is in charge of the core area of the Shennongjia National Park, and its team is in the front line and is the home of an elite group of rangers.
Zhong Jia, a mainstay of China’s bird-watching community for many decades, praised the volunteer participants of a recent survey in Hubei province as being perfect for the task.