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May 22 is the International Biodiversity Day. In recent days, reporters from Science and Technology Daily have visited many places across the country and learned that China has continued to promote biodiversity conservation and achieved remarkable results. On the occasion of the International Biodiversity Day, various places have responded to the call and carried out a variety of biodiversity conservation publicity activities. These activities in various forms guide and encourage the public to feel the charm of biodiversity in their participation, and spontaneously join in the conservation action.
Make protection an action
"Look, everyone, that is the national first-class protected animal, the Oriental White Stork!" On May 22, at the Daqinghe Bird Rescue Station in Leting County, Hebei Province, Tian Zhiwei, the head of the station, introduced to more than ten students who came to participate in ecological research. The rescue station is located in 123 square kilometers of Yantian sea area, which is the habitat of migratory birds on their way to migration. In 2013, Tian Zhiwei, with the support of his unit Tangshan Sanyou Salt and Chemical Co., Ltd., established the rescue station, which mainly treats local and migrant injured birds.
"We have saved more than 5000 birds in total, and organized nearly a thousand compulsory education for bird love and protection." Tian Zhiwei proudly said that at the rescue station, visitors can also realize the importance of ecological protection through close observation, interaction, learning about injured birds and other experience activities, thus becoming a participant in the protection of migratory birds.
This year, focusing on the theme of "biodiversity, you and I participate together", governments, scientific research institutions and the public in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Hubei and other places actively participated in biodiversity conservation.
Urumqi, Xinjiang, has created a good atmosphere of respecting, adapting to and protecting nature by holding a youth "nature notebook" contest to encourage every family to participate in it. In Xining, Qinghai, the Sanjiangyuan Ecological Protection Foundation has cooperated with Xining Botanical Garden and other units to carry out not only colorful publicity activities, but also more extensive cooperation in biodiversity protection and ecological publicity and education. In the Wuling Mountain (Hubei) Wild Animal and Plant Herbarium in Yuyangguan Town, Wufeng, Hubei Province, tourism research teams are in an endless stream, and people scramble to stop and take photos in front of the exhibition area of plants, beasts, insects and other specimens to feel the unique value and charm of biodiversity protection.
Make biological "roster" thicker
"Here they are!" Ke Yukun, director of Xiamen Bird Watching Association, said excitedly recently as he watched the white fronted terns flying up and down. Terns are typical migratory birds. Since May, along the beach embankment of Huandao Road, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, the rising tide has brought abundant fish and shrimp. The scene of terns gathering for food reappears, attracting many bird watchers to take pictures here.
"The water quality of the sea area around the island has improved, with more fish and more birds." Ke Yukun, who has observed and recorded the whereabouts of terns for five years, told reporters that in the past, terns mainly lived on the beach near the outside or on the uninhabited island. In recent years, with the improvement of the environment of the sea area around the island in Xiamen, the biodiversity has been effectively protected and restored, The city beach embankment has become a favorite "temporary residence" of terns.
Not long ago, in order to reduce the impact of human activities on the habitat of terns, Siming District of Xiamen City set up a temporary protection area for migratory bird habitat here, stipulating that the protection time is from May 15 to August 15 every year, and designated migratory bird observation points on the embankment. Relevant departments set up patrol teams to strengthen patrol protection by using unmanned aerial vehicles.
The good news goes beyond that. At the theme publicity activity of 2024 International Biodiversity Day in Xiong'an New Area, Lv Wei, Director of the Ecological Environment Bureau of Xiong'an New Area, said: "At present, there are 279 species of wild birds in Baiyangdian, and 48 species of wild fish have been recovered, 73 species and 21 species more than before the establishment of Xiong'an New Area." As the ecological spatial pattern of "one lake, three belts, nine areas, and many corridors" has taken shape, Nowadays, the biodiversity of Baiyangdian Lake is becoming more and more abundant.
Make technology the strongest power
"With the help of satellite high-definition images, we can directly see the ecological restoration of Qinling Mountains through the comparison of solidified images in different periods." At the Qinling Mountains Protection Station in Xiyi District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Wang Xiqin, the person in charge, demonstrated to reporters in front of the monitoring system.
Shaanxi is rich in biological species resources, especially the Qinling Mountains, which is not only one of the 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world, but also one of the 14 key biodiversity regions in China. Today, the Xi'an Digital Qinling Integrated Supervision Platform, led by Xi'an Big Data Bureau, uses digital means such as big data, cloud computing, AI recognition, etc., to open a new mode of "smart" mountain management. Through sky view, online search, and ground management, every point of change will not be missed, so as to inject sufficient momentum of digital technology into the protection of green waters and green mountains.
Qinshui County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, is located at the junction of Taihang, Taiyue and Zhongtiao mountain systems. Today, there are leopards on the mountains, fish in the rivers, storks in the sky and roe deer on the ground. In recent years, the county has innovatively adopted new technologies such as intelligent detection, early warning and monitoring platform to carry out biodiversity survey and monitoring, newly discovered the habitat of North China leopard, and successively monitored and found more than 150 species of terrestrial wild animals and more than 350 species of wild plants, including 3 species of national first-class key protected wild animals, and the national first-class key protected plants Taxus chinensis The second level national key protected plant is Lianxiang tree.
On the same day, at the International Biodiversity Day publicity activity held by Shanxi Natural History Museum, the customs officers of Taiyuan Customs introduced to the public that with the help of the national biosafety early warning and prevention system and advanced technology and intelligent equipment, China Customs is building a national biosafety barrier.
(Reporter Fu Xiaobo, Chen Rujian, Wu Chunxin, Liang Le, Zhu Tong, Zhang Yun, Wang Yuhan, Han Rong)
