my country's first wetland protection law was implemented today, leading wetland protection to enter the track of legalization in an all-round way
The Wetland Protection Law of the People's Republic of China came into effect today (June 1).
This is the first time that my country has carried out legislative protection specifically for wetland ecosystems, which will lead my country's wetland protection to fully enter the track of the rule of law.
The Wetland Protection Law is the first law in my country to specifically protect wetlands, with 7 chapters and 65 articles, based on the overall protection and restoration of wetland ecosystems.
The Wetland Protection Law establishes the principles of "protection first, strict management, systematic governance, scientific restoration, and rational utilization", and establishes a comprehensive, systematically coordinated and fully functional wetland protection legal system, leading my country's wetland protection work to enter the track of the rule of law. .
The Wetland Protection Law clarifies the rights, obligations and legal responsibilities of various aspects, and the penalty standard takes into account the resource value and ecological value of wetlands, and the penalty standard is more severe.
Those who occupy or destroy important national wetlands without authorization shall be fined not less than 1,000 yuan but not more than 10,000 yuan per square meter according to the area of the illegally occupied wetlands, with a maximum penalty of more than 6.6 million yuan per mu of land.
Bao Daming, deputy director of the Wetland Management Department of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration: Forests, grasslands, deserts, and wetlands are important natural ecosystems. my country already has forest laws, grassland laws, and desertification prevention and control laws.
The promulgation of the Wetland Protection Law has filled the blank of my country's ecosystem legislation and further enriched and improved my country's ecological civilization system.
my country's wetland protection has achieved remarkable results
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has continuously strengthened protection measures, and remarkable achievements have been made in the protection of 800 million mu of wetlands.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a total of 97 wetland-related systems have been established at the national and provincial levels, and a wetland protection policy system has been preliminarily formed, opening a new stage of comprehensive wetland protection.
Bao Daming, deputy director of the Wetland Management Department of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration: my country has designated 64 internationally important wetlands and 29 nationally important wetlands, established more than 600 wetland nature reserves and more than 1,600 wetland parks, and the wetland protection rate has increased to 50%. above.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the state has allocated a total of 16.9 billion yuan of central funds to implement more than 3,400 wetland protection projects, adding and restoring more than 800,000 hectares of wetlands, and over 1 million hectares of crop compensation areas for bird losses.
The monitoring of wetlands of international importance in the Mainland has been achieved, the ecological status of internationally important wetlands is generally stable and sound, the ecological status of degraded wetlands has been significantly improved, the grass-roots wetland protection and management capabilities have been further strengthened, and the enthusiasm for wetland protection in various regions has been significantly increased.
Through hard work, we will strive to increase the wetland protection rate to 55% and restore 1 million mu of wetlands by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan".
The State Forestry and Grassland Administration released the monitoring status of China's internationally important wetlands
There are currently 64 wetlands of international importance in my country, covering an area of 7.327 million hectares, including 63 in the Mainland and 1 in Hong Kong.
Recently, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration released the monitoring status of China's wetlands of international importance from 2017 to 2020.
According to the monitoring results, from 2017 to 2020, the area of internationally important wetlands showed a slight growth trend. 3.7275 million hectares.
From 2017 to 2020, the wetland area in China's wetlands of international importance increased by 525,700 hectares.
Ji Wenyuan, Director of the Planning and Monitoring Division of the Wetland Management Department of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration: The monitoring results show that the ecological status of internationally important wetlands has remained stable on the whole, the ecological water supply of most wetlands has remained stable or slightly increased, the overall water quality has shown a positive trend, and biodiversity The richness has been improved, and wetland protection and restoration have achieved remarkable results.
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Convention on Wetlands" on carrying out ecological monitoring of wetlands of international importance, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration began to organize the monitoring of the ecological status of wetlands of international importance in the Mainland in 2009. The monitoring contents include wetland area, water quality, wetland plants and vegetation, wetland birds category and other indicators.