Beilun+Rare+Animals

[] Zhenhai Echinotriton, a mysterious endangered amphibians, survives only in of Jiufeng zero in the world.The foot of Jiufeng Mountain starts from Taibai and ends at Ruiyan, with the rolling peaks surrounded in the west of Chaiqiao Town. The nine apposite peaks are like dragon horn, eagle, millstone, hap, and so on.But these peaks are not the highest, and the highest is at Hongao, which has two peaks, one high and one short. The high one is the Peak of Jiufeng Mountain; it is the second peak in Beilun District, at an altitude of 497.4m.The best place to appreciate the attractive Jiufeng Mountain is no ton the peak but on the river named Houyangdian, where we could admire the spring, summer, autumn, winter hues of Jiufeng Mountain, changeable poses of Jiufeng Mountain and the rosy clouds. When the sun is setting and it gets dark, the sky will present colorful clouds, red, yellow, white, green and gray. Upon gentle breeze, it presented a lot of beautiful paintings. When the sun turns a red fire ball, the sky is completely red, and Jiufeng Mountain turns a black silhouette, only the summit is a little golden.** Rare Animals **Zhenghai Newt, amphibia. It is a rare species only distributed in Beilun District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. In 1932, the species was discovered in Ruiyan Temple Forest park at Chaiqiao Town, Beilun District, Ningbo City for the first time. In 1984, it was renamed Zhenghai Newt, and it is the only special wild animal named with the local place name. In 1989, it was affirmed National 2nd level important protection wild animal by the State Council.(Animal that needs 2nd most protection)According to the long-term observation of Chengdu Bioresearch Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences and other units, at present, there are only 350 Zhenghai newts distributed in Beilun Forests, which is much fewer than that of pandas and Xinjiang salamanders.As to newts, only two species are known now, namely Zhenghai newt, and Ryukyu newt (only distributed on Ryukyu Islands in Japan). According to the data of Mainland China and Ryukyu Islands, the species has a history of at least over one million years, and it should be the living fossil. || 瑞岩寺森林公园
 * [][[image:http://content60.eol.org/content/2012/01/16/03/68556_580_360.jpg caption="Map of Echinotriton chinhaiensis"]][][][[image:http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/128x192/1111_1111/1111/0233.jpeg caption="Echinotriton chinhaiensis" link="http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=1111+1111+1111+0233"]] * **date of photo** Sep 27, 2000
 * **location** Ruiyan (Ruiyan Temple), Zhenghai Town, Ningbo City (Zenghai County)
 * **family** [|Salamandridae]
 * **notes** Photo taken at Museum for vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
 * [[image:http://en.bl.gov.cn/images/gybl/image001.jpg width="150" height="107"]] [[image:http://en.bl.gov.cn/images/gybl/image002.jpg width="157" height="107"]] [[image:http://en.bl.gov.cn/images/gybl/image003.jpg width="158" height="107"]] ||
 * Picture 1: Zhenghai newtPicture 2: In 1996, Zhenghai newt was first found to be breeding in this jungle.Picture 3: Clavula is snapped to be pipping during the period of April and May when Zhenghai newt is in its breeding season. [] ||
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=**Chinese Woman's Volleyball team Logo **= The Logo of the team is theChinhai Spiny Newt!!
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=== The Chinghai spiny newt is listed as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because its Extent of Occurrence is less than 100 km2 and its Area of Occupancy is less than 10 km2=== Other Critically Endangered animals are Mekong Giant Salmon Carp

=Yiwu Salamander= []


 * 1) We went to the Rui Yan Forest Park to find the Chinhai Spiny Newt.
 * 2) The Rui Yan Forest Park is located in
 * 3) The Beilun Girls Volleyball team’s logo is the Chinhai Spiny Newt with holding a volleyball which makes the people to be aware that the Chinhai Spiny Newt is a endangered species.
 * 4) In the Forest there area many statues of the Chinhai Spiny newt. The park was built for the protection of the Chinhai Spiny Newt. There are statues of the life cycle of the newt. It starts out with the egg then it turns in to something like tadpole and then it turns into the Chinhai Spiny Newt.
 * 5) This is the Rui Yan temple
 * 6) This is an artificial Lake. The artificial lake was created in 1999 by the government. It was created in Rui Yan forest park to provide extra breeding.
 * 7) When we were going back, we decided to walk along the river. The liver had only few amounts of water so we walked and searched for the newt. In the river there were numerous amounts of worms in the river.
 * 8) While we were going back, we found the Yi Wu salamander not what we were looking for but at least we found something.
 * 9) **** In search of the Newt in Ruiyan Park, instead we found a long and slimy fellow creeping amongst us. We were slightly disappointed that we didn’t find the Newt, but we were also excited about what we saw. From researching more about the park, we stumbled into a piece of information about what could possibly be the slimy fellow. Hynobius Yiwunesis Cai, also known as the “Yiwu Salamande" **** ** The Yiwu Salamander is distributed through out the Zhejiang province in China. We found the Hynobius Yiwunesis by a small stream; research showed that Yiwu Salamanders lay their eggs in water. After, the salamander returns to their natural habitat- into the forest. It comes to be that many of the salamanders can be found in Ruiyan Park. Sadly, the population is decreasing because their habitats are threatened. **
 * 10) This is what we were supposed to find. This is called the Chinhai Spiny Newt. The newt has the history of at least over one million years it is sometimes called the living fossil. It was first discovered in Chengwan. Rui Yan Forest Park is the natural park for the newt and it was recently discovered in Qiushan. The species is listed as a Class II state major protected wildlife since 1988. It is also listed as critically endangered species by the ICUN red list. Critically endangered means that its occurrence is less than 100km square. Saddly, the population is decreasing and now there are only 350 newts in the world much fewer than the amount of pandas in China
 * 11) This is the IUCN Red list. The IUCN stands for International Union for Consercation of Nature. The ICUN is a list of the status of the species. Its goal is to warn people about the status of the species and are to prevent animals for prevent extinction. IUCN is started in 1963 by the UK. There are 7 levels of the status of the species. The Chin Hai Spiny newt is classified as critically endagered. The animals that is also classified as the ICUN critically endangered animals are Mekong Giant Salmon Carp. Yi Wu salamader is classifeid as vulnerable. The animal that is also classified as the IUCN vulnerable spieces is rufous-necked hornbill.