In August 2018, a pack of wolves chased Zhao and his colleague Ma Xu for about 5 kilometers while they were patrolling the forest on a motorbike.
“The experience was life-threatening, but sweet to me.
Regulation is stricter in the core protected areas, with commercial activities, such as tourism, banned and other forms of human activity kept to a minimum.
The mountains’ ecosystem faced severe threats from overgrazing, tourism, mining and commercial logging dating back to the 1980s.
The improved environment has seen the revival of the population of some endangered species.
With three other rangers, he safeguards wildlife in 427 sq km of forest.
That idea had its genesis in 2005, when Xi was the Party secretary of Zhejiang province. In August of that year, on a visit to Yucun, a village in Zhejiang’s Anji county, Xi praised the local government for stopping mining activities and closing cement factories to deal with a serious pollution problem.
Wang said the government gave one herdsman from each family a job as a forest or grassland ranger in the national park.