The birds with their own "rice spoons" make a stunning appearance, explore the recipes of the deciphered spoon-billed sandpiper, and jump jump fish and other small cute people in the wetland... For three consecutive days, CCTV News Channel launched a special program "Looking for Spoon-billed Sandpiper", focusing the live broadcast lens on the Yancheng Strip Mud Wetland and telling the "Yancheng Story" of biodiversity conservation to the world.
Many endangered birds are resting for food.
The report of the Eighth Party Congress of the City proposed, "It is necessary to lead by example in practicing the 'Two Mountains' theory to promote green transformation." Actively compete for new tracks under the goal of 'double carbon', give full play to the advantages of wetland carbon sinks, world heritage ecological advantages, and new energy industry advantages, and realize the use of ecological advantages to change lanes and surpass. "In recent years, our city has practiced Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, strengthened biodiversity conservation, and strived to achieve harmonious coexistence between man and nature." In particular, Yancheng Yellow Sea Wetland has been successfully included in the World Heritage List, more and more rare birds inhabit and settle here, elk populations and diffusion areas have developed rapidly, and the species and number of wild animals have increased significantly, and our city practices the "Two Mountains" theory to build a "green scenery" along the eastern coast, so as to live up to the ecology and live up to the city.
"Resolutely shoulder the responsibility of ecological protection of the World Natural Heritage, solidly carry out ecological restoration, and maximize the protection of ecological authenticity and biodiversity." At the eighth party congress of the city, Cao Lubao, secretary of the municipal party committee, made a big noise in the report.
The Yancheng case was specially recommended worldwide
Since October 8, CCTV news channel "News Live Room" has launched a live special program "Looking for Spoon-billed Sandpipers" for three consecutive days. "Little Spoon" appeared in the CCTV live broadcast footage, and the results achieved by Yancheng's biodiversity conservation have received much attention.
As a new Internet celebrity in the Yellow Sea wetlands, there are only more than 600 spoon-billed sandpipers in the world, belonging to the extremely endangered migratory birds, as well as red-crowned cranes and elk, and called the wetland "auspicious three treasures". Every year in August, September and October, the "little spoon" will travel a long way to Yancheng.
Why does the "little spoon" favor Yancheng? With 770,000 hectares of coastal wetlands with the largest and best ecological protection on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean and the edge of the Asian continent, it is the central node of the East Asian-Australasia migratory bird migration route with the most endangered species and the highest degree of threat, and an important "tarmac" and "gas station" for spoon-billed sandpipers on their long migration journey.
"As a World Natural Heritage Site, Yancheng is an irreplaceable transit station for migratory birds, and the successful experience formed in exploring biodiversity conservation has attracted worldwide attention, and summarizing and promoting the 'Yancheng Practice' is our original intention in producing this program." Xu Dawei, the main creator of the CCTV special program film crew, explained this.
Today, the fifteenth meeting (COP15) of the United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity was held in Kunming. At the conference, the theme exhibition area of the China Pavilion will exhibit the case of the protection and management of the Yellow Sea Wetland in Yancheng, and Yancheng's "Natural Solutions for the Goal of Restoring Bird Habitat" was selected as the "Biodiversity 100+ Global Special Recommended Cases".
At the 43rd Session of the World Heritage Conference, Yancheng Yellow Sea Wetland was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List as a habitat for migratory birds in the Yellow (Bohai) Sea of China (Phase I). In recent years, the Yellow Sea Wetland Heritage Site has implemented a series of ecological restoration projects with ecological reconstruction, auxiliary regeneration, natural restoration, protection and conservation as measures, etc., to restore the wetland ecosystem to a greater extent, better play the ecological function of the ecosystem, and build a new model of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, wetland protection and operation of sustainable development.
Wu Qijiang, director of the Municipal Wetland and World Natural Heritage Conservation and Management Center, introduced that the city actively explores new paths for the protection and management of the World Natural Heritage of the Yellow Sea Wetland, restores the ecological function of bird habitat, and protects bird migration channels.
Take care of the biological home with the concept of NbS
At the eighth party congress of the city, Cao Lubao, secretary of the municipal party committee, proposed in the report that it is necessary to "implement nature-based solutions (NbS) and effectively strengthen the collaborative governance of landscapes, forests, fields, lakes and grasses." Yancheng was the first districted city to include "NbS" in the report of the party congress.
Outside the levee, the waves are coming, and the birds that are foraging for food on the beach are spreading their wings and soaring. Separated by a dike, it is their 720 acres of "home" to escape the tide. Thousands of birds fly over the seawall and settle into the waters inside the levee in the tide-watching area, pacing, frolicking and foraging.
In 2020, Dongtai City set aside 720 acres of reclaimed aquaculture area from the nearest first-line seawall to establish a high-tide habitat. Based on the principle of "ecological natural restoration as the mainstay, supplemented by artificial moderate intervention", on the basis of respecting the laws of nature, the first fixed high-tide migratory bird habitat has been successfully created through the construction of small sandpiper habitats such as spoon-billed sandpipers, the restoration of bare beach wetlands, the construction of islands, and the construction of breeding sites for black-billed gulls.
After the completion of the "720" climactic habitat restored based on the "NbS" concept, 22 species of birds have been added to inhabit here, reaching 410 species, which has been praised by CCTV's "News Network" column as a "Chinese sample" for the ecological restoration of natural heritage.
In the context of the increasing loss and degradation of natural wetlands around the world, the number of migratory birds in the tiaozi wetland has not decreased but has risen, and its practice of strengthening bird protection through the establishment of climatic habitats has set an example for other countries and regions. At present, a total of four climatic habitats have been built in the tiaozi mud wetland.
"On the occasion of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in China, the successful protection of the tiaozi mud wetland is a bright answer sheet handed over by China to actively promote global biodiversity governance." Lei Guangchun, chief support expert for Yancheng's application for heritage and professor at Beijing Forestry University, said.
From nature, to nature. The ecological restoration case of the Yancheng Yellow Sea Wetland Heritage Site takes "NbS" as the technical concept to carry out ecological restoration of the heritage site, effectively protect the spoon-billed sandpiper and other sandpiper birds, and ensure the safety of migratory bird migration ecological passages; protect the coastal beach ecosystem and ensure regional ecological security; and effectively protect and restore regional biodiversity.
For the protection and management of the Yellow Sea wetland heritage sites, the city adopts the "nature-based solution (NbS)" to restore the wetland ecosystem to a greater extent, build a Yellow Sea wetland that integrates "nature-science popularization-ecology", provide best practice examples for the scientific protection, rational utilization and sustainable development of coastal wetlands, and provide experience and suggestions for the restoration of the Yellow (Bohai) Sea in Jiangsu and even the whole Yellow (Bohai) Sea, and create an ecological sample of green Yancheng for "Beautiful China".
Yellow Sea Forest Park (data map).
Provide Yancheng samples for biodiversity conservation
In late September, a joint survey team from the East Asia-Australasian Migratory Bird Migration Research Center of Beijing Forestry University and the Mangrove Foundation monitored 1,164 rare species of small blue-footed sandpipers in the Dongtai Tiaozi Wetland.
From the global population of less than 1,000 small blue-footed sandpipers, to 1150 sliver mud monitored last year, and then to 1164 this year, the number of sliver mud sandpipers has exceeded academic estimates for two consecutive years. This reflects the good results achieved in the protection of the Yellow (Bohai) Sea wetland in Yancheng, and has become a strong example of the effectiveness of Biodiversity Conservation in China.
During the Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, Yancheng will participate in two to three side meetings or sub-forums on topics such as the Biodiversity Forum and the Sub-Forum based on Nature Solutions. Yancheng elements such as the beautiful scenery of the Yellow Sea Wetland in Yancheng and the birds in the wetland will shine in the main exhibition area of the China Pavilion.
"The conservation and management of the Yellow Sea Wetland in Yancheng has played an active leadership and exemplary role in biodiversity conservation." Oliver Hillel, senior program officer at the United Nations Biodiversity Secretariat, praised Yancheng.
Patricia Zulita, CEO of the International Bird Society, said, "The ecological restoration of Bird Habitat in Yancheng can serve as a world-class demonstration base and an example of empirical and scientific wetland management, which is a great achievement. ”
An Shuqing, chief scientist of the Wetland and Beach Research Center of Nanjing University and dean of the Changshu Institute of Ecology of Nanjing University, believes that Yancheng adopts "NbS" to restore the wetland ecosystem and build a new model of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, wetland protection and sustainable development, which is a new way to explore the coordination of economic development and ecological protection, and can contribute more "Yancheng wisdom" and "Yancheng experience" to the construction of "beautiful China" and global biodiversity conservation.
In recent years, Yancheng has actively implemented the "Two Mountains" theory and made breakthroughs in strengthening ecological construction and environmental protection for the Yellow Sea wetland heritage sites. At present, 4 wetland protection communities have been formed, and the natural wetland protection rate exceeds 69%, while improving the preparation of wetland restoration planning, we will comprehensively promote the restoration and protection of coastal wetlands.
Among them, only the strip mud area has completed 17,000 mu of breeding areas to return to fishing and wet, accumulating and rectifying 12,000 mu of mutual flowers and rice grasses; delineating 2,800 mu of black-billed gull breeding land, and full-time personnel patrolling and protecting 24 hours to ensure that the breeding of birds in the breeding ground is not interfered with by humans. The Rare Bird Sanctuary in the Heritage Site has been restored to fisheries and wetlands, and the Sheyang Salt Farm No. 1 Reservoir Ecological Restoration Project has better created habitats for birds and other organisms through nature-based solutions, maintained biodiversity, and achieved excellent results in ecosystem services. (Written by |.) Ding Zhongming Chen Ting)