Animal Resouce 

    Hengyang is home to more than 200 species of mammals and birds, including 30 mammal species and over 170 bird species belonging to 17 orders and 40 families.

    National Class I Protected Animals include the clouded leopard, white stork, river deer, and Chinese merganser.

    National Class II Protected Animals consist of the Chinese pangolin, Chinese edible frog, otter, large Indian civet, small Indian civet, masked palm civet, sambar, goral, forest musk deer, and mandarin duck.

   Birds of prey and rare species include the grass owl, owl, brown wood owl, short-eared owl, northern goshawk, red-footed falcon, silver pheasant, sparrowhawk, white-crowned long-tailed pheasant, Temminck's tragopan, and Chinese giant salamander.

   There are more than 30 species of Hunan Provincial Key Protected Animals, such as the little egret, ring-necked pheasant, bamboo partridge, common coot, spotted dove, South China tiger, oriental turtle dove, grey heron, cattle egret, Chinese bamboo rat, silver-grey bamboo rat, fox, yellow-throated marten, raccoon dog, leopard cat, snakes, toads and frogs, among others.

Plant Resources

    The city boasts 1,047 species of woody plants under 342 genera and 99 families.

National Class I Rare Protected Tree Species include ginkgo, Chinese parasol tree, Koelreuteria bipinnata, Chinese swamp cypress, Bretschneidera sinensis, hairy pod locust, and Emmenopterys henryi.

  National Class II Precious Tree Species comprise Cephalotaxus oliveri, Eucommia ulmoides, zelkova, Fujian nanmu, Chinese yew, and magnolia officinalis.

    National Class III Protected Tree Species cover Keteleeria calcarea, Keteleeria pubescens, Magnolia officinalis subsp. biloba, Phoebe zhennan, Pteroceltis tatarinowii, Tapiscia sinensis, Cyclocarya paliurus, Torreya grandis, golden-leaved trees, white magnolia, Lithocarpus hunanensis, and Reevesia glaucophylla.

    There are 120 fast-growing fine native tree species across 20 families, including Chinese fir, masson pine, cyclobalanopsis, castanopsis, quercus, ring-cupped oak, sweetgum, schima, and kalopanax.

    Major introduced tree species include slash pine, loblolly pine, Chinese pine, Huangshan fir, Huashan pine, dawn redwood, pond cypress, bald cypress, birch, alder, and Italian poplar.

    Featured high-quality economic forest tree species independently selected, propagated and cultivated locally include moso bamboo, oil tea, Tanqiao chestnut, Qidong seedless fragrant pomelo, Hengshan Jiulong plum, apple plum, birchleaf buckthorn jujube, and ginkgo nut.