Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, March 3 (Cheng Jingwei Linyin) March 3, 2023 is the 10th "World Wildlife Day".

According to the news from the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau, the latest "Guangdong Province Terrestrial Wildlife Conservation Action Plan (2023-2030)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") proposes that by 2030, Guangdong Province's national key protection of terrestrial wild animals The protection rate of the number of animal species reaches 80%, and the protection rate of the number of terrestrial wild plants under national key protection reaches 85%, and a regional ecological security pattern with the protection of biodiversity as the core is comprehensively formed. The management level of wild animals and plants and the quality of nature education services Walk in the forefront of the country.

Photo courtesy of the Southern Taxus Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau

　　The "Plan" shows that Guangdong plans to deploy and implement ten key actions.

Among them, Guangdong will carry out investigation, monitoring and evaluation of wild animal and plant resources, establish a database of animal and plant diversity in the province; carry out in-situ conservation actions with national parks as the core, build ecological corridors and biodiversity protection networks, protect and expand Rare and endangered species of wild animals and plants and their habitats and original places; carry out ex situ conservation actions led by the National Botanical Garden, and comprehensively promote ex situ protection of rare and endangered wild animals and plants, population expansion, genetic characteristics maintenance, wild return and species conservation of quality resources, etc.

Photo courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau

　　At the same time, Guangdong will carry out rescue and protection actions for rare and endangered species, implement 78 key species protection projects represented by Chinese pangolin, South China tiger, fairy lake cycad, and water pine, and create a national species protection business card; carry out wild animal and plant shelter and rescue capabilities to improve action.

　　In addition, Guangdong will carry out actions to enhance the ability of biosecurity risk prevention and control, the action to improve the modern governance capacity of wild fauna and flora protection, the sustainable utilization of wild fauna and plant resources, the scientific and technological research action of wild fauna and plant protection technology, and the publicity and education action for the protection of wild fauna and flora diversity. .

　　As part of the ecological construction of Green Beauty Guangdong, Guangdong's biodiversity has attracted much attention.

In recent years, Guangdong has organized the implementation of key species protection projects such as South China tigers and rescue and protection projects for extremely small populations of wild plants such as pig blood tree, established 9 national animal and plant protection institutions such as cycads and orchidaceae, and rescued and protected 54 nationally planned special projects To save species, the preservation of germplasm resources such as cycads, orchids, and magnolias ranks among the top in the country, and promote the sustainable recovery and growth of wild animal and plant resource populations.

South China Tiger Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau

　　According to the latest statistics, there are 1,361 nature reserves of various types in Guangdong Province, where 1,052 species of terrestrial vertebrate wild animals and 6,658 species of wild higher plants are recorded.

Among them, compared with 2012, the new records of terrestrial vertebrate wild animals in Guangdong Province increased by 278; species activities such as Chinese pangolin, Asian black bear, white crane, and Chinese serow were found in the wild in many places.

　　According to reports, Guangdong will make every effort to create Nanling National Park and Danxia Mountain National Park, build a high-standard South China National Botanical Garden, and fully promote the construction of Shenzhen's "International Mangrove Center" and the Pangolin Protection Research Center of the National Forestry and Grass Administration.

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