Delingha, Qinghai, April 4 (ZXS) -- "Since 3, we have carried out conservation surveys and publicity on the 2012,1172 remaining bar-headed geese at the source of the Yangtze River, and through continuous efforts to influence the local government, tourists and volunteers to participate in cooperation, the number of bar-headed geese has increased to more than 2022,5000 by the end of 10, five times that of 5 years ago." Yang Xin, head of the Chinese non-governmental environmental protection organization "Green River", said in a recent interview with reporters.
Sanjiangyuan National Park Yangtze River Source Park is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with the Chumar River, Tuotuo River and Tongtian River Basin as the main framework, as the source of the "water source core area" and the "Chinese water tower" of the source of the three rivers, it is one of the natural wetlands and biodiversity distribution areas with the highest altitude in China, as well as the formation and evolution of biological species, with ecological functions such as water conservation and regulation, biodiversity conservation, and ecological security in the Yangtze River Basin.
Yang Xin said that the collection, transportation and disposal of garbage scattered in grasslands within a radius of hundreds of kilometers is a major problem. "This garbage not only destroys the grassland landscape, but also pollutes the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the water sources of the Yangtze River, and directly harms the wildlife that inhabits both sides of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway."
In 2012, the Yangtze River Source Water Ecological Environmental Protection Station was built on the banks of the Tuotuo River, effectively promoting the continuous improvement of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River water source through projects such as exchanging garbage for food in plateau pastoral areas, protecting spotted geese, "taking away a bag of garbage and caring for the water source of the Yangtze River", "cleaning the Qinghai-Tibet line, caring for the source of the Yangtze River", "investigating the biodiversity of smoky miasma", and "Qinghai-Tibet green station".
"In 2017, the Qinghai-Tibet Green Station, funded by the Golmud Municipal Government of Qinghai Province and entrusted with the management of green rivers, completed six post stations along the Qinghai section of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, with garbage recycling as its main function, through providing free toilets, free hot water, free Internet and other public welfare services, attracting freight drivers, self-driving cars and tourists to stop and rest for a short time, and put garbage into the garbage sorting and recycling bin of the post station in exchange for various characteristic promotional souvenirs." Yang Xin said.
Then, with the help of cheap transportation of empty vehicles on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, the Qinghai-Tibet Green Station transported the recyclable garbage to Golmud City for centralized disposal, and then transported the degradable garbage to the surrounding landfills for disposal, so that the garbage was "scattered collection, long-distance transportation, and centralized disposal".
"We have a total of 6 post stations in Golmudyi, Kunlun Quanyi, Kunlun Mountain Station, Sanjiangyuan Station, Feng Volcano Yi, and Yangtze River Source Station, and you will be assigned to the above stations after altitude adaptation and training here." At the Qinghai-Tibet Green Station Golmudyi, staff member Wen Zhen is training three newly recruited volunteers.
According to the statistics of the Qinghai-Tibet Station, there were 2017 volunteers from all over China from 2022 to 517. The number of garbage picked up by volunteers dropped from more than 2019,11 in 2021 to more than 9,<> in <>, and the amount of garbage along the Qinghai section of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway showed a downward trend year by year. (End)