Xining, August 21, Xinhua News Agency Topic: China builds the world’s largest national park system to protect the harmonious coexistence of all things
Xinhua News Agency reporters Li Linhai and Zhou Shengsheng
As the “Pearl in the Crown” of beautiful China, national parks are the most important part of the natural ecosystem, the most unique natural landscape, the most essence of natural heritage, and the richest biodiversity. From the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the coast of the South China Sea, the harmonious picture of all things coexisting slowly unfolds, and the rare birds and animals in the national parks continue to return, showing the beauty of nature and ecology.
The second National Park Forum co-sponsored by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (National Park Administration) and Qinghai Provincial People’s Government was recently held in Xining, Qinghai. This forum aims to discuss and build the world’s largest national park system and gather strength Contribute to the protection of flagship species.
At present, China has established the first batch of national parks such as Sanjiangyuan, Giant Panda, Siberian Tiger and Leopard, Hainan Tropical Rainforest, and Wuyi Mountain, covering an area of 230,000 square kilometers and covering nearly 30% of the national key protected wildlife species in the land area.
Guan Zhiou, director of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (National Park Administration), said that the establishment of a national park system is a major institutional innovation in the construction of an ecological civilization and a beautiful China, opening a new chapter in the protection of natural ecology.
The Sanjiangyuan National Park has realized the overall protection of the sources of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River, and the population of Tibetan antelopes has recovered to more than 70,000; the Giant Panda National Park has protected more than 70% of wild giant pandas and connected 13 ecological corridors of local populations; The tiger and leopard national park has smooth cross-border passages. The number of Siberian tigers exceeds 50, and the number of Amur leopards exceeds 60. The rainforest habitat of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park continues to improve, and the population of Hainan gibbons has recovered to 6 groups of 37 individuals…
Experts said that as a representative species of regional ecological maintenance, the recovery of the population of flagship species is a significant sign of the steady increase in ecological biodiversity and the continuous improvement of ecological functions, and is of great significance to enriching global biodiversity.
The recovery of the flagship species known as the “ecosystem bellwether” also means that the animals and plants in the habitats it depends on are growing healthily. In the five officially established national parks and national park candidate areas, there are more than 5,000 species of terrestrial vertebrates and 29,000 species of higher plants, protecting more than 80% of the national key protected wildlife species and their habitats.
Stephen Polaski, a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the IUCN and an academician of the US National Academy of Sciences, said with emotion: “China has taken practical actions to reverse the loss of biodiversity, put nature on the road to recovery, and benefit the people and the earth.”
Since the establishment of the national park, it has always attached importance to the protection of wild animals in the national park with scientific and technological strength. In the space and ground monitoring and new technology application exhibition area of this forum, there are a variety of novel technological products used in the construction of national parks, which attracted many participants to stop and watch.
“We use scientific and technological equipment such as unmanned flying vehicles, as well as ground intelligent terminals for natural ecological monitoring and real-time carbon sink measurement, to effectively help the monitoring and protection of flagship species in national parks.” Wish the chief engineer of the Institute of Unmanned Systems, Beihang University Ming said.
Today, in national parks around the world, you can feel the full “technical style” everywhere: Sichuan has mastered the DNA archives information of more than 500 giant pandas through the establishment of a giant panda genetic data platform; National parks can identify and classify more than 30 kinds of animals including tigers, leopards, bears, and lynxes with AI; the Geladandong Glacier, which is located at the source of the Yangtze River, can transmit the monitoring results through satellites through the monitoring cabin vehicle, and you can see them at home How did the first drop of water at the source of the Yangtze River form…
The national park is not only a “Xanadu” for rare species, but also a high-quality ecological product enjoyed by the surrounding people. “We pay more attention to improving people’s livelihood through protection.” Guan Zhiou said that at present, various places are accelerating the promotion of green transformation and development, exploring the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, and actively carrying out franchising, eco-tourism, nature education, and recreational experiences.
Taking Sanjiangyuan National Park as an example, in recent years, the local area has actively explored the “franchising” system. By training local herdsmen to serve as natural experience guides, it has broadened the channels for increasing income and becoming rich, and at the same time explored the “one household, one post” ecological management and protection mechanism. A total of about 2 Ten thousand herdsmen have transformed from herdsmen to caregivers, and can get a fixed income of about 20,000 yuan per year.
The “ecological dividend” of national parks will continue to be released. This forum officially announced that China will steadily and orderly promote the establishment of new national parks such as the mouth of the Yellow River, the source of the Qianjiang River – Baishanzu, and Kalamaili.
“The further development and brand building of national parks will enable more and more people to enjoy the fruits of green development,” said Tang Xiaoping, director of the National Park Research Institute.
2023-08-21 12:49:00
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