NANCHANG, May 13 (Xinhua) -- East China's Jiangxi Province has been compensating local farmers for economic loss caused by migratory birds flying to the Poyang Lake during the winter every year.
Since 2014 when a pilot wetland ecological compensation program was launched in the province, some 140,000 people were compensated for damage to 19,666 hectares of crops around the lake, according to the Poyang Lake national nature reserve.
Some 14.38 million yuan of wetland ecological compensation has been given out by the province since 2014.
The Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, is dubbed a "paradise for migratory birds."
The migratory birds, including storks, cranes, egrets and wild geese, fly to Poyang from Siberia, Mongolia, Japan and northern China in October and stay until April. Some of them, such as oriental white storks, are on the country's top protection list for wild animals.
