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Chinese University Students Move to Help Protect Wetland
A special program titled "Wetland Envoy" was launched Thursday in this capital city of south China's Hunan Province.
The program is co-sponsored by the China Youth Daily and the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF), the world's largest non- governmental environmental protection organization.
According to the program, students from 10 Chinese universities will go to the wetland areas along the Yangtze River such as the areas around Dongting and Poyang lakes, to spread among the local people knowledge about protecting the wetland after receiving two days of training in Changsha.
The program aims to help improve the environment and protect the wetlands along the Yangtze through the joint efforts of students, local residents and WWF members, said Lei Guangchun, a WWF official responsible for the program.
Since 1990, the ecological cycle in the Yangtze River Valleys has deteriorated due to unreasonable exploitation of wetland.
When there is serious flooding, the river will cause drownings and destroy land because the water cannot be diverted to nearby wetlands already occupied by houses and farmland.
The WWF started a "Yangtze River Program" in 1999 in the hope of restoring a sound ecological cycle in the area through cooperation with local residents and governments, sources said.
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