People's Daily Xi'an, August 12 (Reporter Li Yihuan) In the early autumn of the Qinling Mountains, the breeze is accustomed to the breeze and the layers of green mountains are stacked. The reporter walked into the Qinling National Botanical Garden, the park is surrounded by lush trees, green shade, and multi-variety and multi-form green plants shine together, showing a vibrant scene.
Qinling National Botanical Garden in early autumn. People's Daily reporter Li Yihuan took a photo
Located in Zhouzhi County, the northern foothills of Qinling Mountains, qinling national botanical garden is currently the world's largest planning area, the clearest vertical distribution belt, the most natural style of the botanical garden, known as the "world's emerald", but also an important biodiversity conservation research base in the mainland.
Zhu Lin, director of the Scientific Research Center of Qinling National Botanical Garden, told reporters that the shallow mountain area of Qinling Was previously affected by modern agriculture, which was basically cultivated land, but after years of restoration and protection work, trees, shrubs, etc. have grown in the park, with peculiar natural landscapes and rich animal and plant resources.
Bird's eye view of Qinling National Botanical Garden. People's Daily reporter Li Yihuan took a photo
"There are 311 families, 1144 genera and 4441 species of plant species in the park, and there are also 32 species of national and provincial protected animals such as antelope, golden snub-nosed monkey and crested ibis." Zhu Lin introduced that qinling national botanical garden empowers biodiversity conservation with scientific research, and continuously strengthens the research on the conservation breeding of critically endangered species. Today, the forest coverage rate in the park has reached 95%, and the number of rare and endangered plants has increased year by year. The park conserves nearly half of the species in the Qinling area, while salvage breeding of endangered species and some regression studies of wild populations have been carried out.
Plant seeds on display in the herbarium in the park. People's Daily reporter Li Yihuan took a photo
In recent years, in accordance with the principle of "giving priority to conservation, protection and natural restoration", Qinling National Botanical Garden has comprehensively implemented projects such as natural forest protection, mountain closure and afforestation, returning farmland to forests, and vegetation restoration and reconstruction, and comprehensively protected and restored the animals and plants, hydrology and natural landscapes in the park. The park also continues to increase investment in science and technology, strengthen biotechnology research such as seed bank construction, and strive to preserve species with economic and ecological value for a long time.
List of some of the plant specimens. People's Daily reporter Li Yihuan took a photo
"Popular science education is also one of our important tasks." Zhu Lin introduced that the park has specially cultivated a professional science popularization team, which will enter the campus in a fixed month of each year to carry out science education on biodiversity conservation. The park will also invite students to enter the park and conduct more intuitive science education through hands-on, question-and-answer, nature classrooms and other forms, so that students can observe nature at close range.
"Only by allowing children to go into nature more, understand nature, and get close to nature can they truly establish a sense of ecological protection and take the initiative to participate in the work of protecting the natural environment." Zhu Lin said.
Source: People's Daily News