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Captive ibises back to the wild

www.chinanews.cn 2007-06-01 17:01:45

13 couples of captive breeding zhuhuan, or crested ibises ( Nipponia
Nippon) were reintroduced to nearby wild after adaptability training in
Zhaigou Village of Chengguan Town in Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province.

Chinanews, Xi'an, June 1 �C On May 31, 10 a.m., 13 couples of captive
breeding zhuhuan, or crested ibises ( Nipponia Nippon) were reintroduced
to nearby wild after adaptability training in Zhaigou Village of
Chengguan Town in Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province. This is the first
time for the humankind to successfully rehabilitate captive ibises into
the wild.
These 26 healthy ibises have very strong abilities in breeding and
wildlife surviving, and are living kilometers away from the only known
wild breeding population in the Qinling Mountains of southern Shaanxi.
In China, experiments on rehabilitating 23 captive ibises to the wild
have been done ever since 2004, 13 of which are known to survive by now,
or 57% of the original number. And 6 infants have been hatched by these
ibises.
Crested Ibis, first recorded in the ancient text of China, Russia, Korea
and Japan, is one of the 50 rarest birds in the world, and also one of
the most seriously endangered bird species global wide today. There are
about 1,000 birds now after China's protecting effort.
To help ibises regain their historical occupation, similar rehabilitation
projects of ibises are planned to be carried out in Henan, Hubei, etc.,
which will surely provide valuable experience for other countries in
their captive ibises rehabilitation work.

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