Source: Zhonggong Net - Workers Daily
There has been a significant increase in forest land area, biological species, forest cover, etc., but there are difficulties in recruiting forest rangers (citation)
Joys and Sorrows of Guizhou Leigongshan National Nature Reserve (Theme)
Workers Daily-China Gong Net reporter Wang Dongmei
Li Shengqing, 58, a ranger at the Xijiang Management Station of Guizhou's Leigongshan National Nature Reserve, has resigned since 1990 when many of his colleagues who work with him have quit their jobs and low incomes, and he is willing to be a "patron saint of the mountains."
"I grew up in Lei Gong Mountain, if no one is a ranger, no one comes to patrol the mountain ranger, where there is a well-protected primary forest around the Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, where there is a clear white water river." At dusk on July 13, sitting in the Miao village of Getou Village, Fangxiang Township, Leishan County, Guizhou Province, Li Shengqing, who had just returned from a mountain tour, told reporters with a smile that he was called "Lao Huan" by the villagers, and of course wanted to make a lot of money, but living in the mountains every day, he had never been sick, and he did not have to send money to the hospital, which was another kind of "high salary".
Recently, the reporter followed the State Forestry and Grassland Administration's "Visit the Red Sacred Land, See the Green New Look" interview group to Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, to visit the only national nature reserve in Qiandongnan Prefecture - Leigongshan National Nature Reserve, saw many rangers, listened to their joys and sorrows, and also learned about some of the difficulties faced by the Leigongshan National Nature Reserve.
Forest cover has increased significantly, etc
On the afternoon of July 13, this reporter and Tang Xiujun, deputy director of the Leigong Mountain National Nature Reserve Management Bureau, climbed to the top of Leigong Mountain, known as "Qiandongnan Everest Peak", only to see 10,000 acres of forest sea and greenery. At the foot of Lei Gong Mountain, nearby villagers are ploughing the soil to cultivate tianma seedlings.
"The peak of Lei Gong Mountain, where we are standing now, is the highest peak in southeast Qiandong, 2178 meters high, which is also the watershed of the Yangtze River system and the Pearl River system. The north of the Miaoling Mountains below belongs to the Yangtze River system, and the south belongs to the Pearl River system, and the ecological location is very important. Tang Xiujun pointed to the distance and said.
Leigongshan National Nature Reserve covers a total area of 47,800 hectares, spanning the four counties of Leishan, Taijiang, Jianhe and Rongjiang in Guizhou Province, involving more than 30,000 people in 10 townships (towns). Since the implementation of the Tianbao Project, leigongshan national nature reserve has achieved a substantial increase in the four major indicators of "forest land area, forest accumulation, biological species and forest coverage".
Tang Xiujun said that the Leigongshan National Nature Reserve is a subtropical mountain forest ecosystem type nature reserve with comprehensive management benefits based on the protection of rare organisms such as Taiwan fir (bald fir) and other rare organisms. At present, 5158 species of organisms have been identified, and according to the list of wild animals and plants newly promulgated by the state this year, there are 85 species of wild animals and plants listed under national key protection. However, the collective forest land in the area accounts for more than 81%, and the social and forest conditions are more complicated and the management is difficult.
There are now difficulties in recruiting rangers in protected areas
According to the relevant policies of the national ecological rangers, ecological rangers only hire households with established cards. However, some of the Lika households in the Leigongshan National Nature Reserve have been relocated and relocated, and their lives are no longer in their original places of residence, and some of the Lika households are old, weak, sick and disabled, and are not suitable for forest rangers.
Tang Xiujun said that 2,197 people from 548 households were relocated from the Lei Gong Mountain Nature Reserve, of which 14 households and 48 people were involved in a natural village in the core area, all of whom were relocated, demolished, and completed reclamation; the buffer zone involved 1,072 people from 287 households in two villages, and 184 people from 52 households that had been relocated.
"The reserve currently has a maximum ranger of 59 years old and the youngest ranger is only 20 years old. At present, the number of rangers in protected areas is not only insufficient, but it is also difficult to recruit qualified rangers. Tang Xiujun admitted that if the reserve adds 200 more ecological rangers, and does not distinguish whether the hired object is a file card household, as long as it is competent for the forest management and protection of the reserve, it is possible to hire ecological rangers on the basis of merit, and it is possible to solve the problem of difficult supervision of the reserve.
The reporter met several villagers in the Leigongshan National Nature Reserve, and they complained to the reporter that they were originally from one village, but the situation was completely different when a red line was drawn.
It is understood that the current national public welfare forest ecological compensation standards are 15.75 yuan per mu per year, in accordance with the Forest Law, nature reserve regulations and other laws and regulations and policies, the production space in the protected area is significantly much stricter than outside the area, but the compensation standards within the area and outside the area are the same. Due to the low ecological compensation standards, the enthusiasm and awareness of the masses in the area to participate in the protection of the ecological environment are not high, which brings instability to the reserve. Local villagers hope that the state will raise the compensation standards for public welfare forests in national nature reserves, and implement different standards within and outside the region.
Editor-in-Charge: Yang Jing