A Chinese national park located in Qilian Mountains has discovered over 70 new species of wild animals for the past ten years. The park listed in the country's key protection project, is now seeing a better ecological recovery. Photo: screenshot of the Pear Video

A Chinese national park located in Qilian Mountains has discovered over 70 new species of wild animals for the past ten years. The park listed in the country's key protection project, is now seeing a better ecological recovery.

The Qilian Mountain National Park is located in Northwest China's Gansu Province and it was established to solve the ecosystem damage problems in 2017. But the intense care of the food chain protection and Wildlife monitoring from local staff started in early 2011.

"The food chain for wild animals here is becoming complete under the intervention of our staff members," said Ma Duifang, chief of animal management division at the national park, indicating that an intact wildlife food chain is indispensable to the increase in the number of wild animals.

"We set over 400 monitoring sites every year," Ma added. "Yet the systematic monitoring project didn't start until a decade ago due to lack of funding and technical support."

Located at an altitude of 4000-5000 meters, the uniqueness of this environment featuring grasslands, glaciers, deserts, forests made it become part of the pilot national park system launched in 2015.

"None of our team members has the altitude sickness, or you can't do the job," said Ma.