China News Service, Beijing, November 12th. The "International Symposium on Protection and Restoration of Wetland Ecosystem Functions in Cold Regions" at the side event of the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (COP14) was held on the 10th through a combination of offline and online methods. hold.
The meeting adopted and released the "Proposal for the Protection and Restoration of Cold Wetland Ecosystem Functions".
Online group photo of participants
The above-mentioned proposal calls on relevant experts, scholars and conservation management departments to attach great importance to the scientific restoration and rational use of wetlands, and to put forward relevant suggestions on protection and restoration, and promotion of the health and sustainable development of wetland ecosystems in cold regions.
The conference was hosted by UNESCO International Center for Natural and Cultural Heritage Space Technology (HIST), Heilongjiang Wetland Biodiversity Society, and Heilongjiang Forestry Society, and hosted by Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, Heilongjiang Academy of Forestry and HIST Harbin Branch.
The conference attracted nearly 200 representatives from 5 countries including China, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom and 6 international organizations.
Jerker Tamelander, Director of the Science and Policy Department of the Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands, Chen Fulong, Deputy Director of HIST, Liu Chunyan, President of Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, Ni Hongwei, President of Heilongjiang Academy of Forestry, and Vice President of International Society of Wetland Scientists China Branch attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
Fourteen experts and scholars from Chinese, Russian, British and other scientific research institutes and international organizations such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature, The Nature Conservancy and other international organizations made reports on wetland conservation, wetland monitoring, wetland sustainable development, and wetland carbon cycle.
Among them, Qiu Yubao, a researcher from the Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave a report on "Comprehensive Earth Observation of Wetland Changes in Cold Regions".
Luo Lei, head of the Research Department of HIST and associate researcher, gave a report entitled "Remote sensing monitoring and assessment of wetland world heritage sites".
Wetland is a common resource of human beings, with powerful and unique ecological functions, and an important foundation and strategic support for human life, production and ecology.
According to the organizer, the successful holding of this seminar will play an important role in promoting the harmonious coexistence of the cold wetland environment, humans, animals and plants, and promoting global cooperation in wetland conservation.
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