Our country is ahead of schedule to meet the 17 per cent target set by the Convention on Biological Diversity by 2020.

"At present, the national forest cover has increased to 21.66 percent, and the grassland comprehensive vegetation cover has reached 54 percent.
area of land protected areas of more than 1.7 million square kilometres, accounting for about 18 per cent of the land area, ahead of the Convention on Biological Diversity target of 17 per cent by 2020.
" 22 is the 24th International Day of Biodiversity, said Huang Runqiu, vice minister of environmental protection, during a special publicity campaign held on the same day.
theme of this year's International Day of Biodiversity is Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism.
Huang Runqiu said that at present, in China, more than 90% of the land natural ecosystem types, 89% of the country's key protection of wildlife species and most important natural relics are protected in nature reserves, giant pandas, northeast tigers, Zhu Qi, Tibetan antelope, alligators and other rare and endangered species in the wild population has steadily increased.
Ministry of Environmental Protection has carried out the construction of a national eco-tourism demonstration zone by the United Nations Tourism Administration, and promoted the establishment of 72 national eco-tourism demonstration zones in Tianjin, Hebei and other places.
It is learned that in the current and future period, China will further strengthen the supervision of biodiversity conservation, promote the integration of key ecological functional areas, sensitive ecological environment areas and vulnerable areas into the red line of ecological protection, strengthen the overall protection of ecosystems, and comprehensively upgrade natural ecosystems such as forests, lakes, grasslands, wetlands and oceans. Stability and ecological service functions, full implementation of major biodiversity conservation projects, the implementation of county-based national biodiversity survey and assessment, the establishment of biodiversity observation system, the construction of biodiversity conservation network, increase publicity and education efforts, so that tourism as a classroom to understand biodiversity, as an opportunity to enhance the awareness of biodiversity conservation throughout society.
, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the National Tourism Administration also jointly launched the Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Tourism Initiative.
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