Ecological photographers highlight their impact on conservation

Over the past five years, the initiative has attracted more than 7,000 photography enthusiasts. Participants have traveled across 47 cities and visited over 10 nature reserves, producing more than 60,000 ecological images that capture nearly 1,000 species of nationally protected animals.

"The initiative has amassed a large volume of high-quality, traceable wild bird images, providing significant supplementary data for avian ecology research and opening an intuitive window for the public to understand the relationship between urbanization and biodiversity," said Zhang Zhengwang, chair of the China Ornithological Society.

Liu Feng, president of Beijing BirdFans International Culture Communication Co, said that ecological protection is a systematic endeavor that requires the participation of society as a whole, and that images are a vital force for conveying ecological concepts and building consensus on conservation.