Guangming Network News (reporter Zhang Qian) On October 12, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscaping and Landscaping officially released the "List of Terrestrial Wild Animals in Beijing (2021)" (hereinafter referred to as the "List"). The "List" includes a total of 596 species of terrestrial wild animals distributed in Beijing in 33 orders and 106 families, including 503 species of birds, 63 species of mammals, and 30 species of amphibians and reptiles.
Black Stork, a national first-class key protected wild animal (Courtesy of Beijing Municipal Landscaping Bureau)
At present, the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity is being held in Kunming, Yunnan, and the international community is committed to protecting biodiversity and jointly building a community of life on earth. As one of the most biodiverse areas, Beijing's release of the List is an important measure to protect biodiversity. The reporter learned that the "Directory" takes the results of the second survey of terrestrial wildlife resources in Beijing as the background data, takes the "List of Chinese Biological Species", "Beijing Mammals", "Beijing Birds", "Diversity and Geographical Distribution of Chinese Mammals", "List of Chinese Birds Classification and Distribution ( Third Edition)", "Chinese Snakes", "Chinese Amphibian Retrieval and Illustration" and "Beijing Vertebrate Retrieval Table" as the basic data, combined with the field survey record information, and is formed by the review committee's argumentation, screening and confirmation. Among them, 126 species have been included in the "List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection", including 30 species of wild animals under national key protection such as black storks and brown horse chickens, and 96 species of wild animals under national secondary key protection such as ocelots and mandarin ducks.
Ocelot, a national second-level key protected wild animal (Photo by Fang Chun)
In recent years, the species and number of wild animals in Beijing have been increasing, such as the appearance of the national key protected wild animal great bustard in the Tongzhou sub-center, and the previously recorded Aurora crows and finches frequently found in Fangshan, Daxing, Fengtai and other places, which is closely related to the continuous improvement of the ecological environment. At present, the forest coverage rate of Beijing has reached 44.4%, the urban green coverage rate is 48.46%, and the wetland rate is 3.6%. It is understood that while Beijing continues to expand the ecological space, it strives to optimize the stability of the entire ecosystem, focusing on improving the biodiversity in the forest green space, like in the new round of afforestation and greening of millions of mu, more planted wild animals' favorite food source plants, with high-level greening projects to connect fragmented ecological islands, improve the integrity of the capital ecosystem.
In addition, Beijing pays attention to strengthening the protection of wild animals. According to Zhang Zhiming, director of the Wildlife and Wetland Protection Division of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscaping and Landscaping, Beijing has continuously increased the protection of wild animals through a series of work, such as protecting and restoring wildlife habitats, strengthening wildlife rescue and disease monitoring, and severely cracking down on illegal hunting and operation and utilization of wild animals. In particular, the release of the Beijing Municipal Regulations on the Protection and Management of Wild Animals will include all wild animals in the city in the scope of protection, and the "List" released this time further clarifies the existing terrestrial wildlife species in Beijing, which will provide a solid foundation for comprehensively strengthening the protection of wild animals.
Source: Guangming Network