综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

China / Society

Nation grows nature reserve stock

By Zheng Jinran (China Daily) Updated: 2016-05-23 08:29

Nation grows nature reserve stock

Red-crowned cranes?at?a national rare birds nature reserve in?East China's Jiangsu province, Jan 9, 2016.?Reserves now account for 14.8 percent of the country's territory.?[Photo/Xinhua]

China has seen steady growth in nature reserves, which are now home to 89 percent of the wild animals and plants on its protected lists.

Reserves now account for 14.8 percent of the country's territory, said Chen Jining, minister of environmental protection, on Sunday - the International Day for Biological Diversity.

Since 1956, when the first nature reserves were created, China has established 2,740 reserves. They include forests, wetlands and geological parks and comprise 147 million hectares. The percentage of the nation's territory set aside as protected nature reserves is higher than the global average, Chen said.

These natural reserves not only have protected plants and animals but major natural relics, he said at a conference celebrating biological diversity.

Chen added that some rare and endangered species had recovered in recent years, including Yunnan snub-nosed golden monkey, a kind of monkey that is only found in China's southwest. Its numbers have grown by 40 percent in the past 20 years, from 1,400 to more than 2,000 in 2015, said Zhong Tai of the Baima Snow Mountain National Natural Reserve in Yunnan during an interview with China Central Television.

He said this year has seen a record number of babies born, and staff at the reserve have been providing them with extra food, including eggs and peanuts.

Chen, the minister, said that in addition to improving nature reserves, the ministry will strengthen punishments for people who conduct illegal activities in the reserves, such as banned construction.

China has set long-term targets for biodiversity conservation. It aims to have sound systems of laws and regulations in place by 2030 to protect biodiversity and the sustainable development of biological resources.

On Sunday, the ministry and the Chinese Academy of Sciences released the latest annual checklist, the Catalog of Life in China, which shows the country had 86,575 species in 2016, an increase over last year's 73,255.

zhengjinran@chinadaily.com.cn

Highlights
Hot Topics
...
杨浦区| 广南县| 阳原县| 恭城| 湖北省| 施秉县| 中卫市| 德江县| 广宁县| 石泉县| 荆州市| 南康市| 玉龙| 保定市| 闵行区| 高唐县| 海晏县| 永善县| 乌兰浩特市| 丹阳市| 汝阳县| 定西市| 剑川县| 黑山县| 钦州市| 祥云县| 喀什市| 山丹县| 定边县| 海宁市| 青浦区| 辉南县| 珠海市| 莲花县| 乌鲁木齐县| 太白县| 冀州市| 穆棱市| 前郭尔| 罗定市| 蛟河市|