The central ecological and environmental protection inspector's public case involves ecological damage in many places
The issue of ecological destruction needs urgent attention and containment
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With the implementation of the revised Environmental Protection Law in 2015, the environmental protection law enforcement from top to bottom has continued to increase, and environmental pollution problems caused by enterprises' malicious and illegal sewage discharge have been initially curbed.
However, the problem of ecological destruction in some places has begun to become prominent.
These ecological damage issues urgently arouse the attention of relevant state departments and local party committees and governments, and take effective measures to contain them.
□ Our reporter Yan Jianrong
In less than 5 years, more than 16,000 acres of forest land in Xiaoxing'anling were destroyed. Even the core area of the nature reserve and the fire barrier were not spared. The destroyed forest land was illegally planted with ginseng; Ningxia Ninglu Petrochemical Company illegally constructed slag The closest distance between the warehouse, methanol storage tank and other projects of the Ming Great Wall-Yanchi section is less than 20 meters, and even some of the factory areas of the company have entered the protection scope of the ancient Great Wall.
These are two typical cases publicly notified by the fifth batch of central eco-environmental protection inspectors in the just-concluded second round. These two cases may cause serious damage to the local ecological environment or pose a serious threat to the local ecological environment.
In fact, the typical cases notified by the fifth batch of inspectors in the second round involved more than these two cases.
In addition, illegal construction and illegal fishing in the National Aquatic Germplasm Resources Protection Zone of Mengjiang Bawanghe Endemic Fish in Luodian County, Luodian County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, seriously affected the protection of fish and their living environment; Luobei, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Some companies in the Graphite Park of the county illegally occupy woodland and wetland and grassland for a long time; the long-term illegal accumulation of solid waste in the Longmen section of the Yellow River in Hancheng threatens the Anlan problem of the Yellow River, which has caused damage to the local ecological environment.
Through these cases, it is not difficult to find that the problem of ecological damage has become a prominent problem in some places, and these problems urgently require the attention of relevant state departments, local party committees and governments.
1,718 acres of woodland in the core area of the reserve was destroyed
Xiaoxing’anling is located in the northern part of Heilongjiang Province. It is not only the birthplace of some important rivers, but also a natural ecological barrier in the northeast. It has an important strategic position in ensuring national ecological security.
Zhanhe Forestry Bureau Co., Ltd. (formerly Zhanhe Forestry Bureau, hereinafter referred to as Zhanhe Company) is a subsidiary of China Longjiang Forest Industry Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Forest Industry Group), a large state-owned public welfare enterprise.
In December last year, the inspection team went to Xiaoxing'anling to sink into inspectors.
According to the inspection team, the total area of 11.269 million acres of woodland (including 8.439 million acres of natural forest and 383,000 acres of artificial forest) is the management area of Zhanhe Company.
In order to strengthen the protection of forest land in the area under the jurisdiction of Zhanhe Company, in 2002 and 2009, Heilongjiang Province established Heilongjiang Mountain Pass Provincial Nature Reserve (hereinafter referred to as Shankou Reserve) and Heilongjiang Dazhan River in the management area of Zhanhe Company. Wetland National Nature Reserve.
According to my country's Forest Law, logging is prohibited in nature reserves. At the same time, the law also prohibits deforestation for reclamation.
However, the inspection team discovered that the Zhanhe Company had long illegally leased forest land for ginseng planting.
“Since 2016, the area of deforested ginseng species has reached 16,342 mu, involving about 2729 mu in the mountain pass protection zone, including 1,718 mu in the core area, 316 mu in the buffer zone, and 695 mu in the experimental area." Forest trees have been felled and ecological damage has been severe.
Even the fire tunnels are planted with ginseng.
According to the inspection team, due to the need for forest fire prevention, in 2010, Zhanhe Company built a 100-kilometer-long and 200-meter-wide forest fire isolation belt along the border between Zhanhe and Suileng and Tongbei Company.
In 2016, the "Regulations on Forest Fire Prevention in Heilongjiang Province" was promulgated, requiring no unit or individual to occupy forest fire prevention passages and fire isolation belts.
At the same time, the state and Heilongjiang Province have successively launched special operations to crack down on deforestation.
However, Zhanhe Company knew the law and violated the law.
The inspection team said that in May 2018, Zhanhe Company terminated the contract with a ginseng association (previously with this association to sign a rental seed participation contract), but did not recover the forest land involved. Instead, it continued to violate the regulations in September of the same year. It is leased for ginseng planting, and the transfer period is until 2031.
As of this time the inspector is stationed, there are still 10,523 acres in the fire isolation zone in the nursery.
The inspection team revealed that in 2018, when the central ecological and environmental protection inspector "looked back", he referred to the public several times to complain about the deforestation issue of Zhanhe Company.
However, the Forest Industry Group and Zhanhe Company did not pay enough attention and did not make rectification efforts. They did not concentrate on organizing the return of forests until April 2021.
At present, the planted Korean pine seedlings are only about ten centimeters high and the fingers are thin, "it is easy to destroy the forest but difficult to grow", and the ground is still exposed in large areas.
Not only that, as of December last year, when the inspectors were stationed, some of the Changfeng Forest Farm of Zhanhe Company still failed to rectify and reform as required.
The methanol storage tank is less than 20 meters away from the Ming Great Wall
The section of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty—Yanchi is called the Guanzhong Barrier, with the throat of the river and long, enjoying the reputation of the “Great Wall Museum of China”.
In recent years, the state has continuously increased the protection of this section of the ancient Great Wall.
In March 2013, the State Council approved the Ming Great Wall-Yanchi section as a national key cultural relic protection unit; in November 2020, the Toudao side section was also identified as the first batch of important national-level sections of the Great Wall.
The inspection team pointed out that the "Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development Plan" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council clearly requires strict protection and restoration measures for the ancient Great Wall to promote the protection of key nodes of the Great Wall.
In 2014, the government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region designated 50 meters on both sides of the Ming Great Wall as the protection scope of key cultural relics protection units.
The environmental assessment of the overall plan for the Yanchi Industrial Park prepared in the same year stated that “it is forbidden to construct (structure) structures within 100 meters of both sides of the Ming Great Wall.”
However, in December 2021, when the inspection team sank to Yanchi, what they saw was another scene: "Ningxia Ninglu Petrochemical Company is adjacent to the Toudao side of the Ming Great Wall, and even 400 meters within the factory area." Inspector The group's in-depth investigation found that Ningxia Ninglu Petrochemical Company not only failed to take effective measures to protect the ancient Great Wall, but continued to build within the scope of protection.
Satellite remote sensing images obtained by the inspection team showed that after 2014, Ninglu Petrochemical Company illegally built new slag warehouses and methanol storage tanks within the protection area of the Ming Great Wall. Among them, the methanol storage tank was less than 20 meters away from the Ming Great Wall, which was a serious threat The border section of the road makes the Great Wall safe.
Illegal construction and illegal fishing in the National Aquatic Germplasm Resources Conservation Zone for Endemic Fish in the Mengjiang Bawang River in Luodian County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province (hereinafter referred to as the Mengjiang Bawang River Reserve) is also one of the typical cases notified by the inspection team .
Similarly, this case also involved ecological damage.
According to the inspection team, the Mengjiang Dam Wanghe Reserve is located in Luodian County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, in the Pearl River Basin. Section and Bawang River Section, with a total area of 1277 hectares, including 503 hectares in the core area and 774 hectares in the experimental area. The main protection objects are the turtles and southern white turtles.
In February 2021, the maggots were listed as national second-level protected wild animals.
In December last year, the inspection team discovered during the sinking inspection in Luodian County, Qiannan Prefecture that since March 2016, Luodian County had not carried out a special demonstration, that is, illegally promoted and implemented eighth in the experimental area of Mengjiangba Wanghe Reserve. The Misty Dam project artificially intercepted and impounded the Bawang River, which resulted in the migration of fish and the complete blockage of migration channels. At the same time, it also caused 1.3 kilometers of natural rivers in the core area, 9.8 kilometers of experimental areas and adjacent land areas to be submerged. The habitat and reproduction space for fishes such as the fishes in the water-loving habitat has been severely damaged.
At the same time, the third central ecological and environmental protection inspection team inspected Shaanxi and discovered that in the main stream of the Yellow River Hancheng Longmen Section in the Yellow River Wetland Provincial Nature Reserve, more than one million cubic meters of solid waste have been accumulated illegally for a long time since 2013. The main stream of the Yellow River has been illegally accumulated. Damage to the ecological environment threatens Anlan on the Yellow River.
The Central First Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Team in Heilongjiang Province discovered that 15 graphite processing companies in Luobei County, Hegang City illegally occupied woodland and wetland and grassland for a long time. These 15 companies illegally occupied 46.9 hectares of land in Luobei County’s land use master plan. 30.4 hectares of land illegally occupied outside the plan, of which about 25 hectares of forest land, 14.5 hectares of wetland, and 1.65 hectares of grassland are occupied.
The inspection team said that the illegal activities of these companies caused damage to the surrounding ecology.
In addition, the illegal mining in the northern mountainous area of Zhongning County, Zhongwei City, Ningxia, has caused the destruction of the surrounding ecological environment and was publicly notified by the inspection team.
The inspection team said that the area of the mining rights of the historical mine in the northern part of Madaoliang in Zhongning County has been cancelled only 2.8 mu, but the damaged mountain area reached more than 240 mu. The site was devastated and riddled with holes, a large amount of waste slag accumulated at random, and the progress of ecological restoration was slow.
On December 12, 2021, the inspection team used drones to shoot and found that the Baitugangzi Stone Material Factory had long-term illegal occupation of more than 570 acres of natural pasture and grassland ecology was seriously damaged.
The problem of ecological destruction in some places is highlighted
Judging from the public reports of the inspection team, almost every case of ecological damage is related to the inaction, slowness or even chaos, and negligence of duties by the local government and regulatory authorities.
The inspection team pointed out that the reason for the large-scale destruction of the woodland in Xiaoxing’anling was that Zhanhe Company knew the law and violated the law and destroyed the ecology repeatedly. The forest industry group and the relevant departments of Wudalianchi City did not act; the management agency of the protected area “turned a blind eye to the problem of violations of laws and regulations. One eye", long-term inaction.
Luobei County, Heilongjiang Province was approved for “ineffective supervision of various ecological and environmental violations in the park, long-term acquiescence to indulge, the construction of environmental infrastructure in the graphite park is lagging behind, and the problem of negligence is prominent."
The inspection team said that Yanchi County in Ningxia has inadequate supervision of the disorderly development of the park, threats to the safety of cultural relics, and frequent illegal discharges; Luodian County has seriously neglected its duties, inaction or even acted indiscriminately in the management of the national aquatic germplasm resource protection zone.
Qiannan Prefecture has weak supervision and guidance, and frequent violations of laws and regulations occur in the reserve, and the protection of fish and its habitat has been severely affected.
The inspectors pointed out that what deserves more attention is that with the implementation of the revised Environmental Protection Law in 2015, the environmental protection law enforcement from top to bottom has been continuously increased, and the environmental pollution problem caused by the malicious and illegal sewage discharge of enterprises has been preliminary. contain.
However, the problem of ecological damage in some places has begun to become prominent, especially serious ecological damage problems such as "tens of thousands of acres of forest land destroyed", "scattered sites, full of holes" and other serious ecological damage problems still occur from time to time.
The inspector said that these ecological damage issues urgently arouse the attention of relevant state departments and local party committees and governments and take effective measures to contain them.