On June 1 this year, the " Wetland Protection Law of the People's Republic of China " was implemented. This is the first law specifically targeting wetland protection in my country, marking that China's wetland protection has entered a new stage of legal development. Protecting the rare overwintering migratory birds in Dongting Lake and their habitats wetland ecosystem is of global significance in preserving species genes and maintaining ecosystem balance . Among them, what did the construction of the Dongdongting Lake National Nature Reserve in Hunan Province do to build a "two-way" and go to a beautiful ecological home?
After the completion of the Three Gorges Project, the hydrological rhythm of Dongdongting Lake Lake District, Hunan Province has obvious changes. The reporter learned that in April 2014, in accordance with the "Special Implementation Plan for the Follow-up Work of the Three Gorges in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Ecological and Environmental Impact Handling (2011-2014)" and the current status of the protected area, the Hunan Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve Administration presided over the compilation of the "Preliminary Design of the Construction and Improvement Project of Hunan Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve". In the same year, the Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Forestry Department and other relevant departments approved and implemented the construction and improvement project of Hunan Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve.
According to the relevant person in charge, the project began to be implemented in 2015 and will be fully completed and put into use in December 2020. According to functionality, it is divided into management capacity improvement projects, bird and habitat protection projects, wetland protection and restoration projects, species rescue and breeding research base projects, scientific research and monitoring capacity improvement projects, publicity and education capacity improvement projects, etc.
Bird habitatRepair
To reproduce the vision of " Dongting as beautiful as a painting", the construction and improvement project of Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve in Dongting Lake in Hunan has achieved significant improvements and ecological changes. Among them, the wetland ecology has been effectively restored. According to the monitoring records of Dongdongting Lake, in 2021, overwintering water birds have a total of 7 orders, 12 families, 288,157 birds recorded in total, with the highest number and species recorded in the past decade; the natural wild elk population gradually recovering from endangered development to more than 210; the number of Yangtze River porpoise population continues to increase, with the population reaching more than 120. Since the construction of the project, a stable habitat has allowed migratory birds to fly freely, elks run happily, and porpoises to play with them. They have jointly "special endorsement" to allow the population of precious endangered species to reproduce and form an ecological model of harmonious blind date between humans and wild animals.
Dongting Lake Birds
Dongting Lake Elk
Dongting Lake Populus
Dongting Lake Populus
Rescue facilities have been improved. Due to the special geographical location of Dongdongting Lake District, the water level rises during the flood season and floods the wetland beaches, causing elks to move to higher terrain to feed, and often suffer injuries and traps, requiring manual rescue. In addition, this is also an important habitat and resting place for waterfowls in my country. It is home to hundreds of thousands of water birds such as geese and ducks. It plays a very important role in the Northeast crane migration network, the East Asian geese and duck migration network, and the East Asia-Australian wading bird migration network and other regional species protection networks. It is understood that there are currently 361 species of birds in the reserve, including 18 species of national first-class protected birds and 64 species of secondary protected birds; there are vascular plants html 486 species; 117 species of fish, including 2 species of national first-class protected fish; 12 species of amphibians, 11 species of reptiles, and 31 species of mammals, including 3 species of national first-class protected species.
According to reports, the local area has built a rescue and shelter center for elk and birds, covering an area of more than 330 acres. It has also successfully rescued 30 elks and more than 150 birds. Currently, the 19 elks living in the rescue center are in good condition and have received more than 30,000 visitors every year.
Elk Rescue Center
Elk Rescue related work
Bird Rescue Center
Wetland protection and research results promotion and comprehensive promotion. The local area will demolish the illegal dwarf encirclement of Dongdongting Lake, build sluice control gates for the ecological dwarf encirclement of the large and small West Lake and the T-dike habitat project, and build a series of wetland protection infrastructure such as patrol and road protection networks to ensure the safe habitat of more than 50,000 rare birds such as white crane , white stork , white head crane , small swan, white spoonbill , and a large number of geese duck , pissids, etc.At the same time, the reserve cooperated with of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and World Fund for Nature (WWF) to carry out the research on "fine management of water levels in large and small West Lakes". The promotion of its results will have a long-term and extensive sustainable impact on the water level adaptability management of the Yangtze River watershed.
Old gate
New gate facilities
Protection facilities are gradually improved. In order to improve the effective protection and management of wetland protection monitoring systems, ensure the development of field patrols and full coverage of patrol areas, fundamentally rectify illegal and criminal activities, illegal hunting problems, and purchase new patrol monitoring and education facilities and equipment, and build four bird monitoring houses.
uses aerodynamic ships to carry out patrol monitoring
patrol inspection vehicle
In addition, the subsequent project construction of Three Gorges has effectively improved the capabilities of the staff in project design and management, on-site construction, wetland restoration, etc., providing effective reference for cultivating project standardized management talents. (Guangming.com reporter Wang Yihan)
Source: Guangming.com
