Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 324: New Year's Eve Call for Help

The two little guys chased the Tibetan fox all night long, and as for the result, the Tibetan fox should have managed to escape.

Any creature that can survive in the wilderness has its own survival wisdom.

Sitting down to comb the lynx's hair, and at the same time gossiping about the ins and outs of the fight between the leopards, Erniu stretched out her paw and placed it on Chen Ying's leg.

"Oh, are my kind over there so powerful?"

"That's right. You, don't run around everywhere next time. Be careful not to get beaten and not be able to find your friends to help you."

Erniu lay on the other side of Chen Ying with her head turned sideways, her big eyes narrowed into slits, and no one knew what she was thinking.

Xiao Jin didn't pay attention to it. He was just curious if Brother Leopard and Sister Leopard could beat those guys if they were here.

"Brother Leopard and Sister Leopard live too far away from here. There's no need to compete with them."

After playing with the little guys for a while, Chen Ying took the snow leopard cub and the little lynx to visit the snow leopard uncle, and also sent the two teenagers home to prepare for the New Year.

The two teenagers were reluctant to leave, so Chen Ying urged them to get in the car and promised to pick them up after the fifth day of the New Year to continue.

After graduating from junior high school, they stopped going to school and helped their family with herding and occasionally did odd jobs.

"When you go back, tell your grandma that you will start working on February 1st and must report by January 31st at the latest. After that, you will have to attend a week of training and go out with the team to patrol the mountains."

The temporary rangers will not go too deep into the uninhabited area. They will mainly take them around the fenced area outside the ranger station and also patrol the nearest mountain.

You don't have to go to the top of the mountain, just check in at the prefabricated house on the leeward side of the mountainside.

That place is mainly the summer habitat of golden eagles and black-necked cranes. We need to check repeatedly to see whether the surrounding situation has changed or whether anyone has set traps there for poaching.

There has been no gunfire in the Hoh Xil for more than ten years. It’s not because poachers have given up, but it’s the result of 365-day non-stop protection by forest rangers.

After dropping the people off and greeting the elders at the children's families and making an appointment for pick-up, Chen Ying took the two kids for a walk in the buffer zone.

After letting them run for a while and adapting to the environment here, the little snow leopard said that it still liked the wasteland on the other side of Heyuan.

All right, then we will go to the Heyuan rescue center first to check on the old snow leopard, and then ask the leaders of the protection center to try to keep the little snow leopard in the wilderness area between Heyuan and the Budong River.

Although the little snow leopard was rescued by animals, it still accepted human feeding and was registered with the rescue center.

As for its whereabouts, even if the rescue center does not intervene, it must clearly understand the rescue and release process, as well as whether the review procedures are compliant and legal.

It doesn’t matter if the process is a little troublesome, as long as it is good for the animals, Chen Ying doesn’t feel that she is making things difficult for herself.

All the work must be finished before the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the rest is daily work, which has to be done whether it is the New Year or not.

It’s impossible for humans to take a holiday during the Chinese New Year while the animals in rescue stations and protection centers go on a hunger strike.

This time, Chen Ying brought the old snow leopard along, intending to let it retire in the semi-wild area behind the Heyuan Management Station.

There is no way. This snow leopard is old and is even more reluctant to move after the surgery. It has gained 30 kilograms in just a few months, which is worrying to look at.

It already has a bad heart, and if it develops into animal coronary heart disease...all the work will be in vain.

Living at the management station, at least there are cubs to tease it, and it doesn't have to worry about it getting angry with the cubs, after all, there are two parents who protect it.

The old snow leopard seemed to like the new environment very much. Unlike its unwillingness to move in the protection center, it walked for most of the way along the iron fence after entering the animal shed area. Finally, it felt a little tired and caught a rabbit to eat.

After eating and taking a nap, he slowly returned to the animal shed.

This old snow leopard is really cunning. It did not occupy Erniu's man-made cave, but found a place in the corner to lie down and sleep.

Of course Chen Ying couldn't let the old snow leopard sleep in the open air like this, otherwise it would freeze to death at night.

Before he went to pick up the dog, he asked the staff at the care station for help and built a small wooden house of about five square meters with wood. He also made a floor with logs and covered it with hay and waste fur mats collected from the pasture.

The door of the cabin can be opened from both inside and outside, just like the door of a common cat house.

The outside was sealed with a layer of insulation board, then coated with cow, sheep and horse manure, and two ventilation holes were left, and a simple winter hut was ready.

The raw materials used are all sponsored by netizens.

There is also a netizen who lives in Ge City. At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, he drove a cart of wood to Heyuan.

Economical wood, although the price is not expensive, but this car is also expensive.

Netizens said that these were used to build winter houses for their animals.

He also donated some money to buy some practical things for the rangers at the management station.

He said he didn't know what was needed for this job, and he didn't dare to buy anything randomly for fear of wasting money. He simply gave the money directly, and asked the management station to put every penny into practical use, and provide more safety for the patrol team members.

That netizen is an advocate of online animal protection. He has a job and can only look at photos and videos posted by animal protection advocates.

Chen Ying is the person he has always been paying attention to. Last time Chen Ying released some videos inside the no-man's land, especially the difficulties faced by the rangers when spending the night in the no-man's land, this netizen could not sit still.

I contacted a few good friends, pooled some money together, and came to support me before the New Year.

The support from netizens has enabled the rangers to improve their equipment and also let them know that their work is not unnoticed.

Chen Ying built a winter hut, and several other management stations also built similar huts.

Not to mention providing shelter for large carnivores, it would also be nice to provide a place for desert cats to spend the winter.

There were also some Tibetan fox cubs who took their cubs to various small houses to avoid the wind and snow.

On New Year's Eve, all the employees who stayed behind gathered together to eat hotpot. Yak bones were pressed in a pressure cooker for half an hour, and then stewed over charcoal for two hours. The soup was as white as milk.

Lamb, beef, and various vegetables that are rarely eaten in normal times, all filled up in a pot, ready to be cooked as you like.

We eat hotpot together at noon, and at night we have noodles, dumplings and glutinous rice balls. There is everything, you can eat whatever you want.

There will also be a special person to send the on-duty colleagues to their posts to provide them with companionship.

They were enjoying the hotpot meal when Yin Li's cell phone rang.

"Hello, who is this? Lanuo Station? What's up..."

Yin Li suddenly stood up with a serious expression on his face, and the guys who were making a fuss nearby also fell silent.

"Okay, I'll ask him now."

Yin Li didn't hang up the phone, but called out to Chen Ying who was eating on the other side.

"Brother Ying, the Grassland Conservation Bureau needs your help with something."

When Chen Ying saw Yin Li's expression, she nodded in agreement without even asking.

"Okay, what's the matter, tell me."

He knew Yin Li too well. If it wasn't an important and urgent matter, he wouldn't ask him directly at this point in time.

"The rangers at Lanuo Station accompanied a Tibetan yak expedition team from the province into the hinterland to investigate the winter behavior of wild yaks. They should have come out by the 24th of the twelfth lunar month at the latest, but they have not been found until today."

"Lanuo sent three groups of people to search. Two of the groups went from both ends of the patrol route to the middle, but they found nothing."

"Another team is investigating previous scientific research sites, and has not found any trace of the missing persons."

Upon hearing this, the young men in Heyuan immediately put down their bowls and chopsticks and said, "Stationmaster, we will go and help find it."

"Okay, stop making trouble and stay here to work. You are not familiar with the situation over there, so what are you looking for? You came to ask Brother Ying for help because you want to borrow Jin Ya and the others to see if they can help."

"No problem, I'll go find Jin Ya and Er Niu right away."

Chen Ying went to the animal shed at the back without saying a word.

Today is New Year's Eve, and they are eating the good food in the front. The animals are not left out either, and they all have their bellies full.

"Jin Ya, Er Niu, come with me quickly. I need your help. Xiao Jin, you and Lao Baozi stay and take care of the two cubs."

The little snow leopard cub stuck its head out of the old leopard's cabin and wanted to follow. Behind it was a much grown little lynx.

The little lynx also wanted to go, but it was too small and could not withstand the cold outside, which was as low as minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius.

Chen Ying rubbed the snow leopard cub's ears and half squatted down. "We are going out to rescue people. You stay with your uncle Xiao Jin and protect the two-legged animals here. If a blind bear comes, you must tell the two-legged animals on duty immediately."

Xiao Song will leave in the afternoon, and Duanmu will come to pick her up to take her to the Heyuan Management Center to celebrate the New Year.

When he received the call, Xiao Song immediately called Duanmu who was already on the road, and asked him to get to the maintenance station as quickly as possible.

Before they were about to leave, Duanmu also arrived.

There was no time to say anything. I just stuffed the new winter coats I brought for them into the car, as well as some food and drink supplies, the latest animal GPS collars, and some high-tech small equipment suitable for animal protection into the back seat.

In addition, the management station also specially used large plastic boxes to fill them with mutton, rabbit meat and chicken for convenient feeding of Erniu and Jinya.

After all, when you go to other people's place, they may not think of preparing these things. After all, finding talents is the most important thing.

Erniu and Jinya got into the car as soon as the door opened.

Both of them are carrying the new positioning and camera devices sent by Duanmu. Regardless of whether they can be used or not, having more equipment is always better than doing nothing.

We drove at full speed and it was already dark when we arrived at the nearest town on the grassland.

The lights inside and outside the temporary command office were bright, and the families of the ranger team members were waiting here quietly.

"Stationmaster Yin, Doctor Chen, I'm sorry to bother you making a trip during the Chinese New Year."

"Don't talk about this. Tell me what you want to do now."

"I heard from the rescue team that the two big cats rescued by Dr. Chen can help find people. What we mean is..."

"Okay, no problem. Can I see where they entered?"

As they were talking, they had already arrived at the meeting room.

There was smoke inside, and five or six big guys were sitting inside, smoking while looking at the map.

Their eyes were all red and their eye bags were so dark that they were unbearable to look at.

"Doctor Chen, their work route is to enter from here, then walk east and exit from here. Because this is the last patrol of the year, and they have to investigate the living habits of wild yaks along the way, the patrol is expected to last fifteen to seventeen days. They have prepared about thirty days' worth of supplies, so if nothing unexpected happens, they can last until the fifth day of the New Year."

He should have come out on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month at the latest, but he was not seen until the 25th, and no one could contact him by phone, so everyone knew something had happened.

"The station arranged for people to enter the grassland on the night of the 25th. At 5 a.m., two convoys set out at the same time, heading towards each other along the previous patrol road."

However, when the two caravans met, no one saw the forest patrol team, and everyone knew that things were going in a bad direction.

(End of this chapter)