Bird protector takes wing to continue family tradition

A young woman is the third generation to devote her life to the protection of red-crowned cranes, as Tian Xuefei and Zhou Huiying report from Harbin.

Every day, Xu Zhuo, 25, opens her diary and writes down the details of her daily work - feeding, breeding, inoculating and curing red-crowned cranes. She is following in the footsteps of her grandfather, father and aunt in a story that combines dedication and tragedy.

In 2016, when Xu graduated from Northeast Forestry University in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, she declined the offer of postgraduate study and instead became a researcher into the breeding and protection of red-crowned cranes at the Zhalong Nature Reserve in Heilongjiang.