Photo shows grasslands, blue skies and snow mountains in Tianjun county, northwest China’s Qinghai Province. (Photo courtesy of the publicity department of the CPC Tianjun county committee) Tianjun county, located in the hinterland of the Qaidam Basin in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, has been striving to build itself into a model of ecological protection and governance over the past years.
An aerial view of the Xianghai National Nature Reserve, which is located in the northwestern part of Tongyu county, northeast China’s Jilin Province. (Photo/Ge Chichuan) The Xianghai National Nature Reserve, located in the northwestern section of Tongyu county, northeast China’s Jilin Province, is an inland wetland inhabited by rare aquatic birds and plants.
China has put 74 percent of its key wild animals and plants under protection and sees an better trend in the situation of threatened species than the global trend, said Ma Keping, deputy director and secretary-general of the Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Wild animals including black-necked cranes and kiangs (Equus kiang) live in harmony in Burang county, Ngari prefecture, southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, April 22, 2022.
A group of northern lapwings, a rare bird species listed as "near threatened" in 2016 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, were recently seen foraging gracefully in paddy fields in Hetian township, Changting county, Longyan city, east China's Fujian Province. The bird species has also been included in China's list of terrestrial wild animals which are under state protection and are of important ecological, scientific and social value.
