China News Service, Xining, February 2 (Li Jiangning) On the 2nd, the reporter learned from the Qinghai Forestry and Grassland Bureau that by the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the number of wetlands in Qinghai Province remained at 8,143,600 hectares, ranking first in the country. The protected area is 5,237,900 hectares, and the wetland protection rate is 64.32%, which is 14 percentage points higher than the national average of 50%, and ranks among the top in the country. Both the number of wetlands and the protection rate of wetlands have reached the predetermined targets.
Wetland is known as the "kidney of the earth", and it is one of the most abundant ecosystems in nature and one of the important living environments for mankind.
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the "Convention on Internationally Important Wetlands, Especially Waterfowl Habitats". Today is also the 25th "World Wetland Day". The theme is "Wetlands and Water", which aims to emphasize the importance of wetlands in maintaining global freshwater reserves and water quality. An important contribution, highlighting the "same life and interdependence" relationship between water and wetlands.
According to reports, Qinghai Province has two national parks in the source of the Three Rivers and Qilian Mountain, three internationally important wetlands in Qinghai Lake Bird Island, Zhaling Lake, and Eling Lake, 8 wetland nature reserves, 20 wetland parks, and 32 provincial wetlands. The first level of important wetland has formed a wetland protection system with national parks as the main body, wetland nature reserves as the foundation, and wetland parks as supplements.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the province will coordinate the promotion of wetland protection and restoration, enhance wetland ecological functions, maintain wetland biodiversity, and comprehensively improve the level of wetland protection and restoration.
The Qinghai Forestry and Grassland Bureau strictly controls the use of wetlands and handles more than 40 important wetland acquisition and occupation projects. For those who occupy important wetlands, follow the measures of "avoidance, relocation, and reduction", which not only protects the wetland ecosystem, but also takes care of it. People's livelihood development.
At the same time, Qinghai Province has implemented various wetland protection and restoration funds of 580 million yuan, and implemented 111 engineering projects such as wetland ecological benefit compensation, conversion of farmland (grazing) to wetland, wetland protection and restoration, wetland protection within the central budget, and small and micro wetland pilot construction. , Basically covering the five major national (international) wetlands, wetland type nature reserves, national wetland parks and key ecological function areas in the five major sections of the Three Rivers Source, Qilian Mountains, Qinghai Lake, Qaidam Basin, and Huangshui River Basin, through ecological measures And engineering measures have restored a number of degraded wetlands, improved the water conservation capacity of plateau alpine wetlands and river headwaters, and improved the ecological conditions of some important wetlands.
In addition, Qinghai took the lead in implementing the wetland ecological management and protection personnel system in the country. 963 wetland management and protection personnel in the Sanjiangyuan area managed and protected the wetland area of 28.9 million mu, and the wetland protection and management capabilities were greatly improved.
In recent years, the healthy wetland environment in Qinghai has created a healthy habitat for birds.
The number of bird species in Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve has increased from 222 in 2015 to 225 in 2020, and the number has increased from 364,600 to 462,000.
The giant panda black stork in the bird appeared or settled in national wetland parks such as Xining Huangshui, Huzhu Nanmenxia, Guide Huangheqing and other national wetland parks.
Rare and endangered birds such as grey cranes and white pied cormorants have been spotted in many places, and their activity has increased significantly.
"The area of wetland in Qinghai is the largest in the country. Wetland is a major brand of Qinghai ecology. We must systematically plan, systematically build, standardized management, scientific governance, implement the new development concept, and take the new journey of Qinghai wetland protection during the 14th Five-Year Plan "Said Li Xiaonan, director of Qinghai Forestry and Grassland Bureau.
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