China News Service, Jinan, November 30 (Sun Tingting) The reporter learned from a press conference held by the Shandong Provincial People's Government on November 30 that the creation of the Yellow River Mouth National Park has now entered the implementation stage, with a delineated area of 352,300 hectares.
The land area is 137,100 hectares, and the sea area is 215,200 hectares. At the same time, the core protection area of the national park is 184,100 hectares, accounting for 52.26% of the total area.
The mouth of the Yellow River is the mouth of the Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, and a typical representative of new estuary wetlands in the world. It is also a "natural recorder" of the formation, development and evolution of estuary wetland ecosystems worldwide, maintaining the authenticity of estuary wetland ecosystems , Completeness, and typicality.
According to Yu Xiangdong, Director of the Department of Natural Resources of Shandong Province, the Yellow River Delta integrates the three major elements of the Yellow River, the ocean and the land. Its resource endowments and ecological functions have global conservation value and national representativeness, and have been included in the list of important international wetlands. It is listed as a nominated site for the World Natural Heritage Site of Migratory Birds Habitat (Phase II) in the Yellow (Bo) Sea of China.
Shandong has integrated and optimized eight nature reserves in the Yellow River Mouth Region, including the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve, the Yellow River Delta National Geological Park, and the Yellow River Mouth National Forest Park, to delimit the Yellow River Mouth National Park.
Yu Xiangdong said that the creation of the Yellow River Mouth National Park will take overall consideration of the relationship between protection and utilization, and adhere to the concept of ecological priority and green development; the collectively owned land and its affiliated resources in the national park will be explored through lease, replacement, and redemption. , Cooperation, etc., to achieve diversified protection; to study and formulate a community joint construction system to achieve comprehensive and sustainable economic and social development while sharing the ecological well-being of national parks.
At the same time, actively explore new models of ecological resource value transformation, dig deep into the cultural connotation of the Yellow River, and realize ecological protection, ecological benefit to the people, inheritance from generation to generation, sustainable utilization, and green development.
Since 2020, Shandong has implemented wetland ecological protection and restoration in the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve, ecologically replenishing more than 300 million cubic meters, returning 72,500 acres of farmland to wetland, returning to beaches, and restoring 159,000 acres of various types of wetlands. The connecting system of river, land, beach and sea has become an important spawning ground, wintering ground, feeding ground and migration channel for aquatic organisms in the Yellow (Bo) Sea.
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