In Japan, there are endangerd birds named "toki". Toki has a slender body and a long neck, it seems like a swan. Around the end of 19th century, a lot of toki decreased because of indiscriminate hunting and development. Only a few were left by the early 1930s. And toki became a endangerded species.
The government designated toki as a special protected species of Japan in 1952. And villages on Sado, where a few toki lived, established feeding grounds for toki. However, by the late 1970s there were fewer than 10 birds in Japan. In 1981, the last five wild birds were captured for artificial breeding, but all birds lost their abilities of reproduction.
At that time, toki were rediscovered in China after we thought they had already become extinct. In 1999, China gave Japan a pair of toki and they had a chick. And now, toki population at the protect center has risen to 25. We hope to we release toki into the wild someday.
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