The South China Sea is one of the three main marginal sea areas in China, and the South China Sea is also the largest marine area in China, the natural sea area of the entire sea area is about 3.5 million square kilometers, of which the total area of China's territorial sea is about 2.1 million square kilometers, so compared with China's coastal areas of the Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea, East China Sea and other areas are much larger. Of course, for a long time, the South China Sea has also been the most controversial area, mainly the issue of islands, and this time we want to explain a small island in the whole island, that is, China's - Xisha East Island.
East Island is a small island in China's Xisha Islands, located in the east of the Paracel Islands, belongs to the Xuande Islands, the island is about 50 kilometers southeast of Woody Island, and is already the second largest island (area) in the Xisha Islands, this island belongs to the sand embankment, showing a rectangular state, and now the island has become China's main garrison island, so there is time for everyone to go up and see.
There are two main attractions on Xisha East Island - huge reefs and freshwater lagoons. The environment of the island is very beautiful, and the flora and fauna are very large, although the land area is only about 1.7 square kilometers, but it is enough to support the entire ecosystem. Therefore, Xisha East Island is very valuable, whether it is ecological value or strategic value is incomparable to many other regions. With China's large-scale exploration of Xisha East Island, scientists have also found some amazing things.
As we said above, although the land area of Xisha East Island is only about 1.7 square kilometers, the biological population is very large. In 2003, when China's scientific team first investigated the Paracel Islands, it was unexpectedly found that the existence of the "bison herd", although the "bison herd" was not included in China's key protected biological population, but scientists were very interested in the emergence of the "bison herd", according to the common sense of biology, the so-called "bison herd" in Xisha East Island is unlikely.
So finding the source has also become a problem for scientific researchers, and the bison herd is indeed not small, in 2003, the estimated number of 400, so it belongs to the "large-scale" bison herd. However, due to the relatively small area of Xisha East Island and the continuous growth of the "bison herd", in order to maintain a stable state in the area, it is also necessary to control the number of "bison herds".
Finally, in 2013, according to the scientific team in the 10 years after the re-investigation, found that the "cattle road" of Xisha East Island has undergone obvious changes, spider webs are very large, so this shows that the number of "bison herds" must have decreased, indeed the officers and soldiers on the island told us that there is a situation of hunting "bison", because the "bison herd" on the island is not protected, so if necessary to kill one, the number of "bison" gradually decreased, after the "bison herd" hunted at that time, it is estimated that there are 3 groups of observation There were more than 50 heads in total, so it was relatively fast to reduce from 400 to 50 heads, but then the expedition team made suggestions.
I hope to be able to suspend the killing of "bison herds", otherwise there will no longer be "bison" on the only island in China, so how to do it is not clear for the time being, but in general, as a protection of the ecological environment, maintaining balanced development, "bison herds" do need to control the number, but how much needs to be scientifically measured, and now there must still exist, because it has been suggested at the time, this is the general situation, and there is new news in the follow-up.
At first, everyone may not believe that because this "sea-surrounded" island with a land area of only about 1.7 square kilometers, it is impossible to "grow up" such a "large-scale" bison herd, and indeed it is, scientists finally found the answer from the cow dung, that is, this "bison herd" is an evolved "bison herd", which was exiled from the sea around 1659 (late Ming and early Qing dynasties) from the sea and brought into the East Island.
Therefore, the "bison" on this island was originally "domestic cattle", which were wild cattle. At the same time, the history is only more than 300 years, which is the general situation. And now that the "bison herd" has been actually integrated into the environment, it has become part of the xisha east island ecosystem, so it is the development of the normal ecosystem that can be maintained.
As mentioned above, the island is a complete ecosystem, the flora and fauna group is very large, in addition to the "bison herd", the island also has as many as 40 kinds of birds, and there are also China's second-level protected animals "white booby", so it is a high-quality ecological environment area, which is why some people say that Xisha East Island is "bird island", because the number of bird populations on the island is very large relative to the area.
Moreover, the ecology of the island has also triggered a chain effect, because the island's green coverage rate is more than 95%, so there are islands migrating from the sea every year, and The Paracel East Island has also become their short-term habitat, which is the ecology of the island, which is really perfect.