How to leave a final shelter for wild pandas

giant panda, a species that has existed on Earth for at least 8 million years, was found throughout China hundreds of thousands of years ago, traveling north to Zhoukoudian in Beijing and south to the vietnamese and Burmese borders. After a long and brutal ice age, the pandas' habitat shrank dramatically, and the wild population retreated to Lushan, Lushan, Qinling, Xiangling and Liangshan, with the five mountain systems becoming their last refuges. With the increasing impact of climate change and man-made activities, habitat fragmentation is seriously threatening the survival of giant pandas in the wild, which are divided into 33 isolated populations, some of which are at high risk of extinction.
December 5, 2016, the 30th meeting of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensive And Deepening Reform considered the adoption of the Pilot Program for the Giant Panda National Park System, a state-led project on the protection of giant pandas and their habitats at the highest level.the last refuge for giant pandas in the wild was the original intention of establishing the Giant Panda National Park.
According to the Director of the Giant Panda National Park Administration, the pilot area of the Giant Panda National Park System covers an area of about 27,000 square kilometers and covers most of the wild giant panda population and its habitat across Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
The Fourth National Giant Panda Survey shows that there are 1,631 giant pandas in the pilot area, accounting for 8
0% of the total number of giant pandas in the country, and the panda habitat area is 18,056 square kilometers, accounting for 70.08 percent of the total area of giant panda habitat in China. "There are also more than 8,000 species of wildlife, such as snow leopards, Sichuan golden monkeys, green-tailed iridescques, juju, eucalyptus and red bean fir, and is one of the most biodiverse areas in the world, with global conservation value." Emphasize to Cowen.
to strengthen the original nature and integrity of natural ecosystem protection, aimed at maintaining a broader overall ecological balance. To this end, during the pilot period, the original 82 natural protection areas at all levels broke the administrative division and re-integrated into an organic part of the Giant Panda National Park, carried out biodiversity background survey and monitoring, mastered the basic situation and trends of wildlife populations, improved the rescue and protection mechanism of rare and endangered wildlife, implemented key ecological projects such as natural forest resource protection, return to forest and grass, comprehensive management of soil erosion, river and lake and wetland ecological protection and restoration, and continuously strengthened the comprehensive restoration and protection of natural ecosystems within the national park
In order to improve the connectivity between the plaques in the existing giant panda habitat and promote gene exchange between different populations of giant pandas, the pilot area has invested nearly 4.6 billion yuan in the integration of the pilot area, and implemented a number of restoration and management projects in ecological protection infrastructure, ecological corridors, and restoration of important habitats. At the same time, the umbrella effect of giant pandas has also allowed the pilot range of wildlife and its ecosystems to be effectively protected.In 1978, the world's first giant panda field ecological observatory, the May Day Shed, was established in Wolong, Sichuan Province, and since then, a number of figures have set out to spread the panda conservation research to all areas of the panda distribution. From field tracking research to artificial captive breeding, from wild release to habitat protection, from field monitoring to individual fine management... Generations of scientific researchers for the cause of giant panda protection dedicated wisdom and strength, waving youth and sweat.
the fine tradition and style accumulated over 40 years, so that the staff of the Wolong Area of Giant Panda National Park is well-trained, tough and professional. Shi Xiaogang, director of the Mujiang ping protection station, has more than 200 days a year with colleagues in the field patrol and monitoring.
a new large-scale survey, which began in 2018, involved 1,032 square kilometers of giant panda habitat, with a survey grid every 2 square kilometers, and has now completed four-and-a-dozen of the total workload, collecting 183 samples of fresh faeces from wild pandas within 10 days. "By collecting fresh feces from giant pandas to extract DNA, individuals can be identified at the molecular level, changes in the range of activity of the same body in different seasons and years, understanding their population diffusion mechanisms and delimiting nest areas. At the same time, the combination of macro-monitoring and micro-analysis is conducive to obtaining long-term and accurate monitoring data of wild giant panda activities, determining the number and sex ratio of individuals in their populations, so as to carry out genetic diversity analysis, parent-child identification and population genetic structure assessment, etc., and provide guidance for the selection of wild released individuals. Shi Xiaogang introduced.
past few years, welcome news has emerged: a 2017 survey showed that at least 26 snow leopards live in Wolong's 132-square-kilometer snow leopard habitat, the highest distribution density in the country. The image of the snow leopard with the local "one mother and three cubs" has received unprecedented attention at home and abroad. In 2018, the return of the long-lost Money Leopard King once again adds vitality and infinite hope to the land of Wolong.
" Future, Wolong will be the 'Panda and Snow Leopard' double flagship species, biodiversity scientific research ideal, stable and healthy giant panda habitat, mountain snow leopard population core conservation of the new face, to show the world a clear resource advantage, good integration, effective protection, with a world vision of Wolong. Duan Zhaogang, deputy director of the Giant Panda National Park Authority, outlined Wolong's prospects.opening of the Giant Panda National Park Planning Area
, the southernmost Ya'an is particularly notable, with 41.3 per cent of the city's 41.3 per cent of the administrative area of about 6,219 square kilometres being zoned into the pilot area of the national park system, accounting for 23 per cent of the entire pilot area. Among them, the core protected area of 4668 square kilometers, the general control area of 1551 square kilometers, including 17 natural protection areas and 13 management agencies, involving Baoxing, Tianquan, Lushan, Shaojing, asbestos 5 counties and 29 townships, 70 administrative villages, can be described as the pilot area involving the largest area, the largest county share, the largest proportion of the city (state).
more important, Ya'an is like a corridor of life, the "Zhang want" and other giant pandas from south to north closely linked.
20, 2011, the giant panda "Zhang Want" was born in a semi-wild environment at the Ya'an Bifengxia base of the China Giant Panda Conservation Research Center. Two months later, she moved with her mother to Wolong Walnut Ping Wilding Training Base to participate in the second phase of wild training program for captive pandas. On November 6, 2013, Zhang wanted to be released into nature at the Chestnut Ping Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, becoming the first female giant panda to be released into the wild in China. In April 2016, she began moving to the adjacent Liangshan Yele Nature Reserve through the Tau Wushan Ecological Corridor, and then crossed State Road 108 to reach the small population area of the lime kiln giant panda in the Xiaosanling Mountains. Infrared camera records show that Zhang successfully completed the migration between two relatively independent local populations, becoming the first released giant panda to be found to be moving across protected areas.
6 and 8, 2020, in the Land Ridge Giant Panda Corridor in Mao County, Sichuan Province, infrared surveillance cameras once again captured the wild giant panda trail. "Studies have shown that occasional individual communication can greatly contribute to the genetic diversity of two isolated populations. It is clear that the construction of ecological corridors can effectively reduce the risk of extinction of small populations. According to The Introduction to Cowen, since the pilot of the Giant Panda National Park System was launched, nine giant panda corridors and seven wildlife corridors, such as loess beams, land ridges, Tu wushan and the Qinling Tunnel on State Road 108, have been completed, and vegetation has been restored to 128.5 square kilometers, creating favorable conditions for the exchange of small populations isolated from each other.108 State Road in the county town of Fuping in Han zhong, Shaanxi Province, there is a Museum of Qinling People and Nature. Into the gate, facing a huge vulture specimen, spread its wings and stand, to meet visitors from all sides. In the two-story museum of more than 800 square meters, specimens, display boards and simulated habitats are displayed in a flexible and flexible display of rare wildlife specimens such as giant pandas, antelopes, golden monkeys, Zhu Qi, red-beiling broilers, as well as numerous insect and plant specimens, which can be described as a microcosm of the biological resources of Qinling region.
On September 13, 2020, dozens of students from Fuping Middle School just walked into the museum to explain the teacher, senior engineer of the Fuping Management Bureau of Giant Panda National Park, and threw out a question: "The head is the most important part, most birds have the most beautiful decoration on the head, to show the charm of the same kind, to show the strength of different species." But why is the vulture's head bare? The
opened their eyes, pricked their ears, and waited quietly for answers.
"This is a kind of survival wisdom. The party's senior brother deliberately paused and sold a pass: "Vultures are rotting animals, often need to put their heads into the abdominal cavity of other animal carcasses to get food, if the head minister has feathers or other ornaments, it is easy to bring carrion out on the head, resulting in a dispersal of smell, attracting other predators." Moreover, this is also easy to get infected with germs, resulting in infection. "
" is the same! "The students suddenly realized.
" party teacher put the profound scientific truth to lively and easy to understand, which runs through his decades of work sense, but also full of his deep feelings for this land of Qinling. After class, said ninth-grader Ho Boya.
august this year, the party's senior brother received a special gift - a thick copy of "Knowing Qinling", which is the result of the students' research. On the title page, the students involved in the study wrote: "Party teacher, we hope to work with you to protect the giant panda, protect Qinling, protect nature" "Life in memory of the protection of Huaxia father mountain these unsung heroes" ...
Fuping, Shaanxi Province, is located in qinling area of Giant Panda National Park and is a natural reserve for forests and wildlife types mainly for the protection of giant pandas. It is listed as the National Youth Science Education Base, Qinling Giant Panda Field Research Base of China
Animal Research Institute and Shaanxi Normal University Field Teaching Experimental Base, which receives 50 or 60 research teams from all over the country every year.
On the wall of the office of the Fuping Management Bureau of Giant Panda National Park, a list of tasks for 2020 hangs prominently: to organize and carry out community activities related to the national park of giant pandas, to continue to explore community-built co-management and ecological poverty relief mechanism, to receive natural experience and ecological exploration activities must not be less than 1500 people ... Obviously, as part of the pilot area of the Giant Panda National Park system, Fu Ping will continue to play an important role in nature education. The 152 townships covered by the pilot area of the giant panda national park system have a resident population of 1208 thousand, the existing production and lifestyle is highly dependent on natural resources, the economic industrial structure is single, the overall income level of the community is low, and the phenomenon of "rich poverty" is widespread. Building a community of parks and community interests, building an inlet community of national parks and realizing the sustainable use of natural resources are not only the realistic needs of local development, but also the main task of community building in Giant Panda National Park, and the key to solving the problem of "protection and development".
" rational use of natural resources, natural education, ecological recreation, ecological experience, the basic service facilities layout outside the park, the formation of a 'garden tour, out-of-park living' model, not only conducive to the transformation of indigenous industries to increase income, but also conducive to local governments to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, to achieve comprehensive rural revitalization. Pointed out to Cowen.
the development village of Shaojing County, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, was once a typical example of "eating mountains by the mountains". Here the forest coverage rate of 9
%, the original Da Xiangling Nature Reserve, the original Longangou National Forest Park around the village, into the national park system pilot area is not only the home of giant pandas and other wild animals, there are many native residents, the critical area outside the park is also distributed many villages, the villagers' production and living radius often deep into the hinterland of the national park. After the pilot of the Giant Panda National Park System was launched in 2017, nearly 50% of the land in Yujing County was zoned into the pilot area, including mines and hydropower projects. "After the withdrawal of mines and hydropower, new development opportunities must be sought, and the pilot panda national park system has just become a major opportunity for industrial transformation, and we have decided to develop eco-tourism by building a southern entry community." Huang Xiong, deputy county chief, said.
Like Yujing County, combined with the construction of the Giant Panda National Park, governments at all levels have actively carried out the return of farmland to forests, earnestly implemented ecological compensation, vigorously developed the characteristic forest industry, encouraged community residents to use existing production and living facilities to develop catering and accommodation services, and encouraged community residents to participate in ecological protection, ecological restoration and ecological industry development, and strive to achieve a win-win situation for ecological protection and economic development. "In the Liziba community of Baishuijiang Branch of the Giant Panda National Park, located on the border between Gansu and Sichuan, the existing policy income ratio is increasing, residents no longer rely on traditional agriculture and under-forest harvesting, and their dependence on fuelwood has decreased significantly. The forest cover of Baishui River area increased from 67.9% in 2010 to 87.3% in 2018, and the total carbon reserves of forest vegetation were 25.5663 million tons, achieving double growth in forest area and accumulation. "To the example of the available text.
According to the General Programme for the Establishment of a National Park System issued by the Central Office and the
Office on September
, 2017, the pilot project for the establishment of a national park system is almost complete by 2020, and a number of national parks, including the Giant Panda National Park, are about to be officially established - which means that the development of the Giant Panda National Park will also enter a new phase. "As a vivid practice of China's ecological civilization construction, the future Giant Panda National Park will serve as a model for global biodiversity conservation, a pioneering area for harmonious coexistence between man and nature, a model area for world natural education and ecological display, creating a Chinese model for world ecological protection, providing Chinese experience and writing Chinese miracles." I have full confidence in Vin.