JINAN, Dec. 23, 2005 -- Wild swans in Weihai, a booming coastal city in eastern China's Shandong Province endangered by blizzard, are expected to live safely through the winter as locals provide them with food.
More than 30 frontier guards and staff with a local swan protection center on Wednesday put a first batch of 10 tons of food in various sites all over the snow-covered "swan lake".
Migratory swans had nowhere to seek food after the "swan lake" was frozen in the dead of the winter. The swan protection center, the frontier station of Longyan Port and local media on Tuesday launched a "rescuing swans" drive, calling on residents to donate food and materials.
The frontier guards of the station donated more than 300 kilograms of rice and maize and 150 kg of Chinese cabbage to feed these swans.
Flocks of migratory birds, including swans, come to the "swan lake" located in Chengshan Town, Weihai late October every year to live through the winter.
