A river of clear water sees Red-billed gull again.
After the beginning of winter, red-billed gulls came back in groups. In Pingdingshan Baigui Lake National Wetland Park, a large number of red-billed gulls returned to overwinter. On November 17, Pingdingshan Daily Douyin account and Pingdingshan Micro News reminded citizens in the form of live broadcast: "Old friends are back! You can see the red-billed gull."
or dance on the lake surface, or stop and rest in the fence by the lake. The red-billed gull with white feathers and red-billed red claws are like a group of light elves, bringing agility to the city and stretching out a picture of harmonious human gulls. Online and offline, the people of Yingcheng were full of joy in the "revisit" of this group of special guests -
"The red-billed gulls leave Siberian in July every year and migrate south. It is because of the good environment that we Pingdingshan can stop and protect these small guests."
" Bring food with you, feed it in a civilized way, come to Baitu Lake and have a romantic encounter with the Red-billed Gull! "
" Thanks to the Red-billed Gull for bringing us the beauty without filters. The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the sunset, and the Red-billed Gull by the White Turtle Lake. The most beautiful scenery, but that's it."...
This "gull" encounter is already the seventh year. From dozens in 2016 to hundreds later, to more than 5,000 last year, the Red-billed Owl has not only become the business card of Eagle City, but these old friends have also become the spokespersons of Pingdingshan's ecological civilization construction achievements.
day blue waits for misty rain, and I am waiting for you. Over the past seven years, the red-billed gull has flew across thousands of mountains and rivers to Pingding Mountain every year. It has never broken the appointment and never disappointed the Pingding Mountain people who are waiting for her as scheduled. What exactly "stumbles" to their pace of going south, attracting them to stay voluntarily and come again? On November 21, the reporter approached our city's forestry, ecological protection, water conservancy, agriculture and other departments to find out.
In the past seven years, there were dozens of red-billed gulls, which were from dozens to more than 5,000
In the past seven years, our city's annual excellent days increased by 87 days
In the winter of 2016, some citizens discovered that there were dozens of white birds on the lake surface of Baigui Lake National Wetland Park. Later, the staff of the Municipal Forestry Bureau identified it as "Red-billed gull". This is the first time that a red-billed gull was discovered in our city.
Red-billed gull is a type of seagull . It is called "red lips like fire". In 2000, it was included in the "National Protection List of Land Wildlife with Benefits or Important Economic and Scientific Research Value". When the temperature drops every year, the red-billed gull migrates south from the cold north to spend the winter. The "smart" red-billed gulls choose good places to live in rivers and lakes with excellent water quality and environment.
Once a good habitat is found, the red-billed gull will have a memory. Since its first discovery in our city in 2016, in the following six or seven years, red-billed gulls began to appear every late autumn. From October of that year to April of the following year, they stayed at Pingding Mountain for 6 months every year, becoming an "old friend" and "old acquaintance" of Yingcheng people.
Year after year, I returned every year, and the red-billed gulls that returned were also "bringing" back many new partners. In recent years, more and more red-billed gulls have come to Pingding Mountain to spend the winter, and last year it has exceeded 5,000. "The most concentrated return of the Red-billed Owl was in early December. Judging from the current situation, it is expected that there will be more this year, and 6,000 are not a problem." Wang Weifeng, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of the Municipal Forestry Bureau, said.
htmlFor 17 years, this group of friends has arrived as promised and more and more. Behind this is the political orientation of the country's ecological civilization construction and the efforts of Pingdingshan to answer this "political answer sheet".
On November 8, 2012, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held. The construction of ecological civilization is included in the Party’s program, and the overall layout of socialism with Chinese characteristics is eye-catching.
Time enters 2013. In April of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping made deafening continuous questions on ecological civilization construction at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the 18th Central Political Bureau.A month later, he presided over the collective study of the 18th Central Political Bureau, with the theme of ecological environment protection and governance.
html more than 1100 days later, the "Ten Atmospheric Measures" - " Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan " was released. This is the first action plan for systematic pollution control since the founding of New China , and China has also become the first developing country in the world to carry out PM2.5 governance on a large scale.
Subsequently, the former Ministry of Environmental Protection and 31 provinces signed the air pollution prevention and control target responsibility letter , and various places issued a "military order" to defend the blue sky. In 2015, the "Ten Water Articles" - " Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan " was issued; in 2016, the "Ten Water Articles of Soil " - " Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan " was issued. Since then, three-dimensional combat maps for gas, water and soil pollution control have been fully drawn.
In June 2018, an opinion issued in the name of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on comprehensively strengthening ecological and environmental protection and resolutely fighting the tough battle against pollution prevention and control was released. It put forward the combat goals of the three key battles by 2020: resolutely win the battle to defend the blue sky, strive to fight the battle to defend the clear water, and steadily advance the battle to defend the clean land.
As a nationally famous "coal city", if you answer this "political answer sheet", you must overcome an extraordinary battle. The top and bottom are united, carrying the burden forward, and overcoming difficulties. In order to beautiful Eagle City, the Pingdingshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government made solemn promises to the people of the city with the determination of a hero to cut off his arm and the courage to scrape his bones to cure the poison.
Commitment is like a mountain, and mission will be achieved. In recent years, our city has popped up a variation from "coal city" to "beautiful city", in exchange for a "new world" of ecological and environmental protection. A set of data from the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau is a clear proof -
In 2016, the annual average concentration of PM10 in our city was 125 micrograms/cubic meter; the annual average concentration of PM2.5 was 75 micrograms/cubic meter. The number of excellent days is 192 days.
In 2021, the annual average concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 in the city were 80 and 46 micrograms/cubic meter, respectively, both of which decreased by 36% and 39% respectively in 2016. Our city has 279 excellent days, 29 days higher than the provincial target, ranking third in the province, 87 more days than in 2016.
"The red-billed gull was once regarded as the 'barometer' of the ecological environment of the river basin. The arrival, return and increase of the red-billed gull reflects the effectiveness of Pingdingshan's ecological environment governance." said Ma Jianming, secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. Similarly, Ma Jianming is also confident that the number of red-billed gulls has risen again this year. He provided a set of data: as of October 31, 2022, the average concentration of PM10 in our city was 81μg/m3, and the average concentration of PM2.5 was 43μg/m3, both of which were better than the provincial target. The number of good days was 211 days, and the proportion of good ones was 69.4%, which was better than the provincial target; among them, the air quality in August achieved excellent monthly, ranking first in the province. A total of more than 18 million yuan of ecological compensation for environmental air quality in provincial cities has been obtained.
People and nature live in harmony with nature
Eagle City Ecological Protection is in a "guest" for you and Dao
Adhere to ecological priority Green development , accelerate the construction of beautiful mountains and rivers, and in recent years, Pingdingshan ecological civilization construction has begun to show results. Environmental problems, the most intuitive thing is the water problem. Over the past seven years, the red-billed gulls have been visiting Eagle City frequently, and more and more. This is also a proof of the continuous improvement of the ecological environment of our city's waters. Of course, it is also due to the fact that our city's ecological protection is well-off.
In the winter of 2016, after the first batch of red-billed gull "exploration team" flew into our city's Baigui Lake National Wetland Park, our city quickly issued a notice to protect red-billed gulls to the whole city, and specially formulated the "Bird Turtle Lake Nature Reserve Bird Protection Plan". Since then, the Municipal Forestry Bureau has organized bird experts and volunteers to conduct monitoring, feeding and protection; the Municipal Urban-Rural Integration Demonstration Zone, Baigui Lake National Wetland Park and other departments have also coordinated to carry out protection.
6 new gusts, 12 science popularization and warning signs, 4 gull guide signs, and 2 gull telescopes... On November 21, in the main habitat of red-billed gulls in Baigui Lake National Wetland Park, our city's protection of red-billed gulls returning to flat and overwintering has been "upgraded"."In the past two years, the provincial and municipal departments have paid more attention. In December last year and February this year, during the wintering of the Red-billed Gull in Pingding Mountain, relevant leaders of the Provincial Forestry Department came to our city for investigation twice, paying attention to the wintering and migration of the Red-billed Gull." Wang Weifeng said that at present, the Municipal Forestry Bureau has formed a complete protection plan and plan for protection of the Red-billed Gull.
A plan provided by the Municipal Forestry Bureau shows that protection measures include "establishing a team of migratory birds such as red-billed gulls, and severely cracking down on illegal acts of destroying wild birds", "establishing fixed feeding points and standardizing feeding behaviors", "strengthening monitoring of epidemic sources and epidemic diseases, maintaining the safety and public health safety of bird populations such as red-billed gulls", "strengthening popular science publicity, and creating an atmosphere of loving and protecting birds". Among them, a strict duty system was also clarified to ensure the migration safety of red-billed gulls and other birds. Special duty personnel from the Municipal Forestry Bureau carried out scientific feeding, and re-feeding of red-billed gulls and other birds on time were divided into two periods in the morning and evening. At the same time, we actively exert the social power of the volunteers of loving gulls and protecting gulls, and use World Wetland Day and World Wildlife Promotion Day to work with the media to increase publicity efforts and take multiple measures to protect the living space of red-billed gulls.
Ma Zengguang, a citizen living near Baigui Lake National Wetland Park, is a volunteer who protects the red-billed gull. One day in March 2021, Ma Zengguang saw a red-billed gull lying on the sand island in the middle of Baigui Lake from afar. Seeing the red-billed gull struggling, he urgently called for help. "Some people fly kites nearby. Sometimes the kite string will wrap around the bird's wings. Sometimes people fish in the lake, and the fishing rope will also hurt the red-billed gull." said Zhang Lifeng, director of the Provincial Nature Reserve Management Center of Baiguishan Wetland.
In view of this, this year, the Municipal Forestry Bureau issued an announcement to ban waters and posted it along Baigui Lake to remind citizens and surrounding fishermen to pay attention and abide by it. It is required that from November 1, 2022 to the end of March 2023, it is clear that fishing, fishing and other human activities that are not conducive to the protection of red-billed gulls are prohibited from surrounding relevant areas.
Attract red-billed gulls, protect red-billed gulls, and keep red-billed gulls. The enthusiasm, love and conscious actions of the citizens to protect gulls and the active protection of the government have made the elves feel affection for Pingding Mountain, and people and nature live in harmony, allowing these old friends to travel thousands of miles every year to visit the beautiful eagle city for a "gull" encounter.
Continue to write a good story of harmonious coexistence of human gulls
Polish the new business card of ecological civilization in our city
In early winter, groups of red-billed gulls who have traveled for a long distance "arrived as promised". In recent times, they have hovered over the water on the banks of the White Turtle Lake, attracting citizens to watch and feed.
reflects the afterglow of the sunset, the willows swaying on the shore, the lake breeze blowing, and watching the red-billed gulls with family and friends is really a beautiful picture. As Wang Sai, the Pingguan News Editorial Department of Pingdingshan Daily, said, "It is very happy to be so close to beauty. And such happiness is thanks to the city's achievements in ecological civilization construction."
On the same day, many Pingdingshan people working outside the country were also stunning. Zhang Dan, who works in Wuhan, is from Pingdingshan. She has watched Hongzhuou through live media broadcasts many times. She said: "Through the Hongzhuouou, I have seen the changes in my hometown. It is no longer the city that I felt grey and foggy when I was a child." Lu Zhanjia, who works in a bank in Shanghai, and Zhang Xiaopei, who works as a doctor in Guangzhou, also introduced his hometown Beautiful Eagle City to friends in Shanghai and Guangzhou through sharing live broadcasts.
Inadvertently, the Red-billed Owl has become a propaganda messenger of Eagle City. What is even more gratifying is that more and more migratory birds have come to Pingding Mountain to spend the winter. According to the monitoring of the Municipal Forestry Bureau in Baigui Lake National Wetland Park, there are currently 4 species of national first-class protected birds that migrate and inhabit here ( green-headed duck , Chinese merganser , black twill, and Oriental white stork ); 23 species of national second-class protected birds; 80 species of birds protected in the Sino-Japanese Migratory Bird Protection Agreement; 18 species of birds protected in the Sino-Australia Migratory Bird Protection Agreement.The number of green-headed ducks, Chinese merganser, big swan , little swan, mandarin duck , big curtzel , white spoonbill , lark , sparrow , sparrow , white tailed harrier , croaker, ordinary gust, red-horned owl , kestrel , red-footed falcon , peregrine falcon , peregrine falcon , etc. has increased year by year. "In the past three years, the number of protected birds in various countries has migrated and overwintered in Baigui Lake every year has reached more than 20,000. What is particularly important is monitoring the world's extremely dangerous birds, blue-headed ducks, and Chinese merganser, a unique bird in China, which fully proves that the natural ecological environment of Baigui Lake is constantly improving." Wang Xinxiao, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the Municipal Forestry Bureau, said.
Birds are the barometer of the ecological environment. The more birds there are in a region, the better the environment. These creatures flying over the land of Eagle City are depicting a beautiful and harmonious picture of Eagle City to the world.
Ecological civilization construction is only in progress, and there is no rest. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made strategic arrangements for promoting the construction of beautiful China and promoting harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and put forward new and higher requirements for ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection. Strictly implement the responsibility for ecological civilization construction, Pingdingshan strives to take root and take effect in all the protection of red-billed gulls, improve the protection system of migratory land, build a highland for biodiversity protection, and continue to write a good story of harmonious coexistence between humans and gulls -
strives to stabilize the number of migratory wintering from red-billed gulls to Baitu Lake to about 6,000, and by 2027, reaching about 10,000, forming a well-known "White Turtle Lake Gull Tourist Check-in Site" in the Central Plains region; other countries have more abundant first- and second-level protected birds, making the total number of various protected birds in Baitu Lake reach about 30,000, creating a "Ecological Civilization Education Demonstration Window" for harmonious coexistence between man and birds, man and nature, and polishing the new business card of our city's ecological civilization.
Reprinted from: Pingbao Rong Media
