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Since 2019, more than one million young people born in the 1990s and 2000s in China have participated in the restoration of wildlife habitats and wildlife protection in the Altai Mountains through the Altay Nature Conservation Association. In the five years from 2019 to 2023, these young people restored large-scale shrub vegetation communities in the Altai Mountains and the Ulungu River Basin, trained herdsmen as natural rangers, and also initiated preparations to build the first professional wildlife rescue center with medical and scientific research capabilities in the international mountain range Altai Mountains in my country with the support of netizens across the country and local governments. Thanks to the joint efforts of nature conservationists across the country and forestry and grassland authorities at all levels, the population of the Mengxin beaver, a nationally protected wild animal that is only distributed in the Altay region of Xinjiang, has increased by nearly 20%. Narrated from a first-person perspective, this book excerpts many excerpts of nature conservation work that took place in Fuyun County, Xinjiang over the past five years, either enjoying hardships or forging ahead, to record the story of this nature conservation event with a large number of participants and the collaboration of young nature conservationists and local governments. We are like feathers, each one looks so light and insignificant, but when we are closely arranged together, we become a pair of wings. Not only did we successfully send these wild animals back to the blue waves and blue sky, but we also moved forward step by step with our dreams in mind. --Chu Wenwen