HANGZHOU, May 11 (Xinhua) -- The badger, which disappeared in east China's Zhejiang Province more than two decades ago, was captured by cameras wandering in the forest last year, local authorities reported on Monday.
The photos and video clips of this dog-like mammal with shorter legs were found recently by staff in a wildlife survey project in Anji County in the city of Huzhou.
The animal had not shown up in the wild in Zhejiang ever since the province placed 3,000 infrared cameras for wildlife monitoring in 2009, according to the natural resources and planning bureau of Anji.
"Badgers usually live in low-altitude areas with soft soil, where people intensively planted crops and cultivated fields in the early years, so their reemergence indicates the improvement of the ecological environment and an increase of diversity in the species," said Liu Baoquan, with the forest resources monitoring center of Zhejiang.
The badger was listed as an NT (Near Threatened) species in the Biodiversity Red List of China: Vertebrates. Enditem
