Black-necked cranes spend winter in S China's nature reserve

Some black-necked cranes take off from a wetland at Dashanbao, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 13, 2007.

More and more black-necked cranes, the first class animals under China's state protection, have flied to Dashanbao to spend their winter days since the National Nature Reserve was set up in Dashanbao in 2003.

As the local government of Dashanbao has taken measures to protect the wetland and local people have raised their consciousness to protect wild animals, the recent statistics showed that there are more than 1,300 black-necked cranes, one sixth of the whole population of this species in the world, to spend winter here.