Volunteers plant lotus to feed endangered white cranes
By Xing Yi and Wang Jian in Nanchang |
China Daily |
Updated: 2018-08-11 07:20
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It's almost harvest season for lotus roots in Jiangxi province, but Zhou Haiyan, 46, has no plans to reap what she sowed: The roots are not for sale.
Zhou rented nearly 200,000 square meters of lotus field, waiting for the migration of Siberian white cranes, a species listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as critically endangered－one step away from extinction.
