China News Network, Guangzhou, March 21 (Cheng Jingwei Lin Yin) March 21 is the International Forest Day. The reporter learned from the Guangdong Forestry Bureau that in the past ten years, Guangdong's forest resources have shown a steady growth trend. As of the end of 2019, the province's forest coverage rate was 58.61%, and the forest accumulation reached 599 million cubic meters, which has consolidated the ecological and economic development for economic and social development. Resource base.
The green mountains and green waters of Wanlu Lake in Heyuan, Guangdong are charming. (Data map, courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau)
In recent years, Guangdong Province has coordinated the management of mountains, rivers, forests, lakes and grasses, and has been working hard to launch a new round of greening projects in Guangdong, the Pearl River Delta National Forest City Group and other key ecological projects to promote land greening with high quality. After many years of efforts, the five major forest ecosystems of the ecological protection system of the rolling mountain forests in the northern part of Guangdong Province, the forest ecological security system of the main water source of the Pearl River system, the forest green space system of the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration, the road forest belt and greenway network ecosystem, and the coastal shelter forest ecological security system The “system” has basically been formed, and a more scientific and reasonable forest ecological security pattern has been established. The province has delineated the forestry ecological red line and identified four protection lines for forests, woodlands, wetlands, and species, with an area of 10.87 million hectares, 10.63 million hectares, 1 million hectares, 1 million hectares, and fully implement land and space management and control.
According to reports, Guangdong Province adheres to the "protection priority and strict supervision" of forest resources, strict management of forest land quotas, strict control of the amount of forest logging, and serious investigation and punishment of illegal acts that destroy forest resources. In 2019, Guangdong Province organized special actions such as "Green Guard 2019" forest law enforcement and investigation and rectification of illegal construction projects. It dispatched 16,000 law enforcement officers, filed and investigated 4,956 forest-related illegal cases, and handled 4,948 various types of illegal personnel.
A person in charge of the Guangdong Forestry Bureau said that in 2020, Guangdong Province will comprehensively organize the Green America South Guangdong operation, focusing on increasing the protection and restoration of forests, wetlands, grasslands and rocky desert systems, and systematically promoting regional ecological restoration and protection.
People walked into Qi'ao, Dangan Island Provincial Nature Reserve in Zhuhai, Guangdong. (Data map, courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau)
At the same time, Guangdong will support Shaoguan City in advancing the pilot project of ecological protection and restoration of national landscapes, forests, fields, lakes and grasses, continue to accelerate the ecological restoration of Leizhou Peninsula, highlight mangrove protection and nature reserve construction, and strengthen rocky desertification and desertification in local areas such as Shaoguan and Qingyuan. Ecological governance; This year, the province will explore pilot programs for subsidies for collective and individual natural commodity forests, set up and improve natural forest management, use control, and other systems. They will also carry out pilot systems for forest growers, strengthen the construction and management of ecological public welfare forests, and comprehensively strengthen forest resource management. .
In addition, Guangdong Province will comprehensively strengthen the follow-up supervision of forest land use and forest harvesting, with forest supervision as the starting point, and continue to conduct inspections and rectification of illegal construction projects. (Finish)