HEFEI, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The Yangtze alligator, which has lived on Earth for over 200 million years, is a first-class protected animal endemic to China.
A wild population resources survey of Yangtze alligators, also known as Chinese alligators, jointly carried out by a Chinese alligator national nature reserve in Anhui and the College of Life Sciences of Anhui Normal University, was officially launched in May.
Investigations of the wild Yangtze alligators' population, distribution, habitat quality and conservation status will be conducted during the survey.
Over the years, the nature reserve has been better protecting wild Yangtze alligators by releasing them into the wild, setting up protection stations, employing local residents as ecological rangers, and conducting science popularization activities, etc.
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