What does an ecological corridor mean? The role and significance of ecological corridors.

Recently, Shenzhen's first ecological corridor for wildlife protection was built, causing widespread concern in the community.
in fact, ecological corridor in China is not new, the reason for causing concern, because most people do not understand this, that ecological corridor means? What are the roles and significance of ecological corridors? Let's take a look at it. What does
eco-gallery mean? Perhaps many people are relatively unfamiliar with the concept of ecological corridors, in fact, ecological corridorrefers to the channels between isolated ecosystems, which can facilitate the spread, migration and exchange of species. Zhuo Weihua, director of the protection department of the Henan Provincial Forestry Bureau, explained that because of the development of the human world, many wildlife habitats have become fragmented or blocked and are as disconnected as isolated islands.

this will inevitably lead to habitat isolation among animal groups, population sourcing, inbreeding more serious, and eventually leading to species degradation and even extinction. Lin Bin, a staff member at the Wildlife Conservation Association in Zhengzhou, Henan Province,
, said many people believe that many of the world's most valuable endangered animals face a huge problem of poaching and killing, "in fact, more serious is inbreeding."
statistics show that the world's only remaining more than 600 Asian lions, all of which are the descendants of 13 Asian lions captured and raised by humans in 1908, are now much less in size.
experts believe that ecological corridors connect their isolated habitats, through which wild animals communicate through the corridors, and then mate and breed.
once the corridor is expanded and the habitat expands, inbreeding is a good way to avoid inbreeding. Wang Wanli, a researcher at the Institute of Forestry Exploration and Design in Henan Province,
, said that in addition to the naturally formed ecological corridors, the more common are man-made corridors.
so-called artificial corridors, is based on the characteristics of local biodiversity, man-made suitable environment for wildlife habitat.
it superimposs natural corridors in more cases.
the role and significance of ecological corridors in recent years, Qinling wild giant pandas frequently appear, money leopard cubs "walk", the reason is that the Qinling tunnel near in 2015 to build a wildlife channel, restore the Qinling wildlife habitat;
, for example, the Qinling Giant Panda Corridor Belt, the use of artificial ecological corridor project to connect the natural habitat of giant pandas on both sides of the highway, in the giant panda corridor with both sides of the road and in the forest, planted the giant panda staple bamboo species Qinling arrow bamboo, while carrying out vegetation restoration, increase the source of giant panda food, gradually eliminate the fragmentation of the panda habitat, promote the development and growth of the giant panda population.
it is understood that after the completion of the construction of the ecological corridor, the staff will also apply a variety of technical means to monitor the activities of animals.
previously most common through the field high-definition infrared camera camera camera monitoring, in recent years, artificial intelligence, satellite remote sensing and other new technologies have also begun to join.
, for example, in 2019, the Alibaba Cloud and Peach Flower Source Conservation Foundation developed the Wildlife AI Identification System.
programmers simply "feed" a large number of images of wild animals to the AI system, and the machine will find out the patterns, thus learning to identify species and analyze wildlife behavior.
, experts are also trying to apply solar drone aerial technology, as well as animal traceability systems based on technology such as the Internet of Things and blockchain, to scientific monitoring of ecological corridors.
in addition to monitoring animals, the monitoring system can also be human, vehicle, etc.
Source: Science and Technology Daily Joe.