Help | Sitemap | Archive | Advanced Search | Mirror in USA   
  CHINA
  BUSINESS
  OPINION
  WORLD
  SCI-EDU
  SPORTS
  LIFE
  WAP SERVICE
  FEATURES
  PHOTO GALLERY

Message Board
Feedback
Voice of Readers
China Quiz
 China At a Glance
 Constitution of the PRC
 State Organs of the PRC
 CPC and State Leaders
 Chinese President Jiang Zemin
 White Papers of Chinese Government
 Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping
 English Websites in China
Help
About Us
SiteMap
Employment

U.S. Mirror
Japan Mirror
Tech-Net Mirror
Edu-Net Mirror
 
Friday, February 02, 2001, updated at 09:41(GMT+8)
Life  

Nature Reserves Cover One-Tenth of China's Territory

China's 1,276 nature reserves have covered an area of 123 million hectares by 2000, equal to 12. 44 percent of the country's total territory, according to the Ministry of Forestry.

China has developed 1,050 forest parks with a total area of 9. 82 million hectares, including 344 national forest parks, as well as 289 wetland reserves. Other 33 nature reserves were founded to protect giant pandas, the Ministry source said.

A Ministry official announced that the China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Southwest Sichuan Province, had 12 baby pandas in 2000 and 11 survived, the recorded highest rate of survival. In the whole country 20 baby pandas were born last year, of which 18 survived.

The protection of other rare species of wildlife in China was also improved last year. Crested ibises, an endangered species of bird, have totaled 248 now and about 10,000 Chinese alligators are raised in breeding centers. Northeast China tigers and south China tigers were found living in some places in northeast China and South China.

The country now has had 19 nature reserves listed as international biosphere network members and three listed in the world's natural heritage by UNESCO.

The UNESCO biosphere network was sponsored in 1971 as an inter- government scientific research organization, which aims to better protect the bio-diversity, maintain the balance of the ecosystem and promote the sustained use of nature.







In This Section
 

China's 1,276 nature reserves have covered an area of 123 million hectares by 2000, equal to 12. 44 percent of the country's total territory, according to the Ministry of Forestry.

Advanced Search


 


 


Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved