Yancheng, Jiangsu: The capital of Oriental Wetland

Source: WeChat public account of National Forestry and Grassland Bureau

city ​​overview

Yancheng, a city that grows on the wetlands, is located in the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta urban group. It is located in the Yellow Sea in the middle of the coastal areas of the eastern part of China. The city of Yancheng is flat. Most of the areas are less than 5 meters of altitude. The east coastal wetland is vast in the wetland in the middle of the central area, and the western wetland in the west is vast. It has the largest silt tide zone wetland with the largest western coast of the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the most complete wetland types in the developed areas of the eastern coast of eastern China.

Wetland resources

Yancheng Wetland has a large area, with a total of 769,600 hectares of wetlands and a wetland rate of 38%. The coastline with a length of 582 kilometers is distributed with a typical offshore and coastal wetland of 521,500 hectares, accounting for 56%of the total area of ​​the offshore and coastal wetland of Jiangsu. It accounts for nearly 10%of the country's offshore and coastal wetlands.

Yancheng has initially established a complete wetland natural protection system, and the natural wetland protection rate is 62%. Having 2 internationally important wetlands (national wetland nature reserve), 2 national wetland parks, 2 provincial wetland parks, 4 municipal wetland parks, 46 wetland protection communities, drinking water sources protection areas, etc. There are 13 other protective places for protection functions.

Migratory bird migration important channel

Yancheng has the wetland with the largest edge area of ​​the Pacific West Coast and the Asian continental area and the most concentrated distribution of the continuous distribution. It is an important supply station for the 8th bird migration channels in the world's 8 bird migration channels. About 3 million migratory birds stop, breed or overwinter in Yancheng are ranked first in the 1030 protected areas on the migration route. Rare endangered animals such as duck, black -faced spoonbill, elk, etc. provide valuable natural habitats, supporting the survival of the 17 World Nature Protection Alliance's endangered species.

Jiangsu Yancheng Zhenyen National Nature Reserve (International Important Wetland)

The National Nature Reserve of Yancheng Zhenyan, Jiangsu is located along the coast of central Jiangsu. It mainly protects rare wild animals such as elonges and the beach coating wetland ecosystems that lives on the beach, which has extremely rich biodiversity resources. As one of the largest and most important habitats in the Yellow Bohai Sea, it has become the world's first place in my country and the world's second coastal wetland type world natural heritage land.

Jiangsu Dafeng Elk National Nature Reserve (International Important Wetland)

Jiangsu Dafeng Elk National Nature Reserve is located in the Yellow Sea Wetland of Yancheng, covering an area of ​​40,000 acres. It undertakes important tasks to protect elk, red -crowned cranes and its wetland ecosystems, and restore wild elk population. In 2020, the number of elk has developed from the first 39 heads to the current 5681 heads. Among them, 1820 wild elk is the world's largest wild elk population. The protected area has the world's largest elk population and the most complete elk gene library.

Ecological restoration case of Yancheng Huanghai Wetland Heritage Land

In October 2021, at the 15th meeting (COP15) of the Convention on the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), Yancheng reporting cases "based on natural solutions aim to restore bird habitat -Yancheng Huanghai Wetland Heritage Land Ecological restoration cases stood out of the 258 reports of 26 countries around the world, becoming one of the 19 special recommendations for "biological diversity 100+ global typical cases", and established a Chinese sample for global biodiversity.

This project is the first domestic fixed orgasm migratory bird habitat, and has built a new model of Yellow Sea Wetland, which integrates "nature -popular science -ecology", and creates the best practical example of scientific protection, reasonable use and sustainable development of coastal wetland. Provide reference experience and suggestions for the entire Yellow (Bo) Wetland Repair, and contribute Chinese wisdom and Chinese power to global wetland safety and biological diversity protection.

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