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Deers At Jiangsu National Nature Reserve - China

A drone photo taken on June 7, 2025 shows a fish jumping out of water as milu deer wading through water at the Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve in east China's Jiangsu Province. Xue Dandan, 35, is the head of the security department of Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve in Jiangsu. After graduating in 2016, she devoted herself to patrol management and public science education of milu deer in the reserve. When she first arrived, she knew little about the species. Over the past nine years, Xue has immersed herself in relevant materials, consulted experts and scholars, and conducted regular field patrols with colleagues. While constantly enriching her knowledge on the species, she has also translated professional knowledge of milu deer protection into accessible information for the public. Through daily work, Xue has developed a deep bond with milu deer. She helped villagers rescue a milu deer trapped by nets, and also participated in building an intelligent platform, which monitors the biodiversity of milu

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Researchers work at a rare fish conservation center of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo shows the nature-imitated fishway of the auxiliary dam in Nanmu River, which is part of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Technicians test and compare water samples at a fish propagation station of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A technician sprays fish feed at a fish propagation station of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo shows the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo shows the nature-imitated fishway of the auxiliary dam in Nanmu River, which is part of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Technicians conduct water quality monitor at a fish propagation station of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A technician looks at fish spawn at a fish propagation station of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Technicians conduct night monitor of the nature-imitated fishway of the auxiliary dam in Nanmu River, which is part of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A technician checks fish fry hatching containers at a fish propagation station of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-GUIPING-DATENG GORGE WATER CONSERVANCY PROJECT (CN)

(230521) -- GUIPING, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A researcher works at a rare fish conservation center of the Dateng Gorge water conservancy project in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 20, 2023. Dateng Gorge water conservancy project is under construction on a section of Qianjiang River in Guiping, south China's Guangxi, where is an important spawning field for migration fishes in Zhujiang River basin. In order to protect fishes and the biodiversity of aquatic life in the Zhujiang River basin, minimize the influence of the project on ecological environment, a research team of the project has carried out surveys, protection, rescue and artificial breeding on endangered, rare and cash fishes. Researchers have successfully bred nine species of rare fishes and released 8.66 million fish fry. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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Kyoto University professor Nakabo

KYOTO, Japan - Tetsuji Nakabo, professor of Kyoto University and an ichthyologist, holds a Kunimasu, an endangered deepwater salmon species. His research team identified nine fish caught in March and April of 2010 at Lake Saiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, as Kunimasu descended from eggs transported many decades ago from Lake Tazawa in northern Japan, where the species is now extinct. The photo was taken on Dec. 15, 2010.

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Tuna sold for 16.3 million yen at 1st auction in Tokyo fish

TOKYO, Japan - Buyers check the quality of tuna, flown from around the world, prior to the start of the year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on Jan. 5, 2010. A 232.6-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, sold for a nine-year high of 16.28 million yen.

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Tuna sold for 16.3 million yen at 1st auction in Tokyo fish

TOKYO, Japan - Tuna, flown from around the world, is sold at this year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on Jan. 5, 2010. A 232.6-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, sold for a nine-year high of 16.28 million yen.

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Farmed carp deaths spread to 10 pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Huge quantities of virus-ridden farmed carp lie dead and float at a farm in Kasumigaura, Ibaraki Prefecture on Nov. 5. Beside Ibaraki, nine other prefectures acrodd the country have also reported fish dying in large numbers, fisheries ministry officials said on Nov. 6.

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Chinese fisherman enjoys dividends from cleaner Wujiang River

STORY: Chinese fisherman enjoys dividends from cleaner Wujiang River DATELINE: Sept. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:27 LOCATION: GUIYANG, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various file footage of fish cages in Wujiang River 2. various of Wei's homestay 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WEI TINGFU, Homestay owner in Yuqing County, China's Guizhou STORYLINE: Wei Tingfu, a fisherman-turned homestay owner living on the banks of the Wujiang River in southwest China's Guizhou Province, has witnessed first-hand the local ecological improvement in the past years. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WEI TINGFU, Homestay owner in Yuqing County, China's Guizhou "My name is Wei Tingfu, a native of Yuqing County in China's Guizhou. I am 50 years old. I grew up along the Wujiang River. I started fishing in the river when I was eight or nine years old. So I am a veteran fisherman. After the Goupitan hydropower station was built, we started to raise fish in cages in Feilong Lake, an artificial lake. The fish farmers threw so much bait into the

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Kyoto University professor Nakabo

KYOTO, Japan - Tetsuji Nakabo, professor of Kyoto University and an ichthyologist, holds a Kunimasu, an endangered deepwater salmon species. His research team identified nine fish caught in March and April of 2010 at Lake Saiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, as Kunimasu descended from eggs transported many decades ago from Lake Tazawa in northern Japan, where the species is now extinct. The photo was taken on Dec. 15, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Yamanashi gov't to farm newly discovered endangered salmon specie

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - Yasuaki Miura, 62, former chief of the Lake Saiko Fisheries Cooperative, stands in the town of Fujikawaguchi, Yamanashi Prefecture, on the shore of the lake. He caught Himemasu-like fish in March and April of 2010. Nine of the fish were later identified as Kunimasu by Kyoto University researchers. The photo was taken on Jan. 7, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Tuna sold for 16.3 million yen at 1st auction in Tokyo fish

TOKYO, Japan - Tuna, flown from around the world, is sold at this year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on Jan. 5, 2010. A 232.6-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, sold for a nine-year high of 16.28 million yen. (Kyodo)

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Tuna sold for 16.3 million yen at 1st auction in Tokyo fish

TOKYO, Japan - Buyers check the quality of tuna, flown from around the world, prior to the start of the year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on Jan. 5, 2010. A 232.6-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, sold for a nine-year high of 16.28 million yen. (Kyodo)

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Initiation ceremony for new employees at Japanese aquarium

Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan, holds an annual underwater initiation ceremony for nine new employees on March 31, 2017, with four of them cleaning the inside wall of a fish tank as their first task. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farmed carp deaths spread to 10 pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Huge quantities of virus-ridden farmed carp lie dead and float at a farm in Kasumigaura, Ibaraki Prefecture on Nov. 5. Beside Ibaraki, nine other prefectures acrodd the country have also reported fish dying in large numbers, fisheries ministry officials said on Nov. 6. (Kyodo)