美中分管野生生物的官员正在就美国再引入濒危鸟类的努力进行技术交流。

长期以来，美国动物园的负责人和分管野生生物的官员一直与中国有关官员就如何保护大熊猫进行磋商。如今，美中两国又开始就美国再引入濒危鸟类的努力进行交流。

负责野生生物管理的4位中国官员对加利福尼亚州、爱达荷州和威斯康星州进行了为期10天的访问，并参观了威斯康星的尼西达国家野生生物保护区（Necedah National Wildlife Refuge），了解将人工驯养的鸟类放归野生环境所需的工具和技术。美国鱼类和野生生物管理局（U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service）就这次访问发布了新闻简报。

美国鱼类和野生生物管理局中西部区域主管汤姆·米柳斯（Tom Melius）表示：“我高兴地欢迎在野生生物无国界（Wildlife Without Borders）项目的安排下来访的中国同事。我们的生物学家为尼西达保护区再引入鸟类工作的多次成功经验备感骄傲，并欣然分享我们的经验。”

上图中有米柳斯、保护区主管唐·斯托勒（Doug Staller）、司萍（音译）、张晓燕（音译）、唐周怀（音译）、王文峰（音译）、姜鸿兴（音译）和约瑟夫·格林（Joseph Green）。

在整整一天的参观过程中，野生生物保护区的工作人员重点介绍了重新使美洲鹤（whooping crane）的数量增加、不致灭绝的努力，以及其他一些生物科研的成功经验。工作人员展示了遥测和遥控拍照技术，以及重建栖息地的努力。这一行人看到了在景观水平（landscape level）上进行计划火烧（prescribed burning）的种种益处，并参观了得到重建的稀树草原和草地。

这类双向交流合作是根据美国国内资源部（U.S. Department of the Interior）与负责野生生物管理的中国国家林业管理局于1986年签定的《自然保护议定书》（Nature Conservation Protocol）展开的。

U.S. and Chinese wildlife officials are discussing the techniques used to reintroduce endangered birds in the United States.

American zoos and wildlife officials have long held a dialogue with their Chinese counterparts regarding giant panda conservation, and now the two countries are discussing endangered bird reintroduction efforts in the United States.

As part of a 10-day visit through California, Idaho and Wisconsin, four Chinese wildlife managers visited the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin to become acquainted with the tools and techniques used in releasing captive-raised birds to the wild. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported on the visit in a press release.

“I am pleased to welcome our Chinese colleagues through the Wildlife Without Borders program,” said USFWS Midwest Regional Director Tom Melius. “Our biologists have much to be proud of regarding Necedah Refuge’s multiple reintroduction success stories and it is gratifying to share our experiences.”

Pictured are Melius, Refuge Manager Doug Staller, Si Ping, Zhang Xiaoyan, Tang Zhouhuai, Wang Wenfeng, Jiang Hongxing and Joseph Green.

During the daylong visit, staff at the wildlife refuge highlighted efforts to reestablish a viable whooping crane population, as well as other biological success stories. Staff members demonstrated telemetry and remote camera technologies, as well as habitat-restoration efforts. The group saw the benefits of prescribed burning from a landscape level and toured recent savanna and grassland restoration.

Cooperation in two-way exchanges such as this occurs under the auspices of the Nature Conservation Protocol signed in 1986 between the U.S. Department of the Interior and China’s State Forestry Administration, which oversees wildlife management.