Photo shows a school of naked carp swimming upstream along a freshwater river flowing into Qinghai Lake in central China’s Qinghai Province. (Photo/Zhou Yuanfeng) Huangyu, or the naked carp, is a species of fish endemic to Qinghai Lake, China’s largest inland saltwater lake situated on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
As its lotus flowers entered into full blossom in recent days, the Hongze Lake Wetland National Nature Reserve in Sihong county, east China’s Jiangsu Province, has witnessed large flocks of egrets bathing in, foraging for food, and hovering above the waters of Hongze Lake, which is now covered with blooming lotus flowers and a dense green carpet of lotus leaves.
Aerial photo taken on June 20, 2022 shows the Nenjiang Wetland in Zhenlai County, Baicheng City of northeast China's Jilin Province. Located in the west of Jilin Province, Zhenlai County had long troubled by drought, sandstorm and soil salinization.
Farmers were busy ploughing paddy fields and transplanting rice seedlings with a flock of egrets foraging nearby in Gaotian village, Xiangxing township, Yongxin county in east China's Jiangxi Province. Thanks to the village’s efforts to improve the local ecological environment in recent years, a growing number of herons and egrets have settled down there.
