In June this year, the water level of Dongting Lake rose rapidly, inundating large areas of lakes and beaches, and about 2 billion voles inhabited here flooded the farmland near people  Yueyang and Yiyang along the Dongting Lake suffered the worst rodent disaster in more than 20 years
Experts say that the ecological environment of Dongting Lake has been destroyed, and the rat disaster has sounded the alarm
Large-scale drainage and planting of poplars on the beach has turned the Dongting tidal wetland into a woodland where rats can live