时隔8年，朱鹮回家!

转自：CGTN

2024年10月16日，陕西汉中，洋县朱鹮生态园内的朱鹮在觅食。/cfp

今天，16只出生在日本新潟县佐渡市的朱鹮抵达北京。这是2016年以来，日本时隔8年再次进行的朱鹮归还活动。根据中日双方的备忘录，日方需要从中国提供的朱鹮所繁育的后代中，归还一半给中国。

Japan returned 16 locally born crested ibises to China on Thursday, honoring an agreement between the two countries to advance conservation efforts to reduce the extinction risk of the species.

This is the first such return of the internationally protected birds in eight years, and the creatures will reside at Beijing Zoo.

2024年10月16日，陕西汉中，洋县朱鹮生态园内的朱鹮在觅食。/cfp

据日本环境省介绍，此次归还的朱鹮是2016年至2022年间在佐渡朱鹮保护中心出生的，共有9只雌性，7只雄性。在运送前，它们已被隔离并接受了包括禽流感在内的相关检疫。待北京动物园的饲养准备工作就绪后，这些朱鹮将被正式接收。

According to Japan's Environment Ministry, the transferred birds, nine females and seven males, were born at a conservation center on Sado Island in Niigata prefecture between 2016 and 2022.

Japan's native ibises became extinct in 2003, and the country has been using birds donated by China since 1999 for an artificial breeding program, agreeing to return half of the chicks born to China.

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