Before dedicated bird protection teams formed when the national-level reserve was established in 1980, bird trapping used to be traditional customs passed down through generations in the local community. Around the 1960s, bird trapping even evolved into a specialized occupation.

Now bird protectors not only patrol day and night to prevent bird trapping, emphasizing the importance of ecological conservation, they also utilize drones, monitoring equipment, and other tools to detect and punish any instances of poaching they discover, said Wang Xiaoping, deputy director of the reserve's management bureau.