Zhalong National Reserve: Construction Cranes
The Northeastern province of Heilongjiang hosts the Zhalong National Reserve, the largest wetland ecological region in China, home to over three hundred species of bird including the elusive red-crowned crane. Richard Restell enters the park and goes wild.
The wet grasslands and reed beds stretch into the distance, an undulating expanse of flatness broken only by the occasional ridge of trees, or a spiral of smoke rising from a cluster of fishermen's homes. The only movements are those of the wildlife: cranes gliding across the lake, searching out [ read more ]
