World Wetlands Day: A glimpse of China's "earth’s kidneys"
Release time：2024-05-08 01:36:52 Source：World Wander news portal
Feb. 2, 2021 marks the World Wetlands Day, themed “Wetland and Water.” The wetland resource, known as "earth’s kidneys,” is an ecosystem with multiple unique functions on the earth, which plays an important role in maintaining ecological balance and biodiversity.
Over the years, through unremitting efforts, China's wetland protection area has increased substantially. It has basically formed a national wetland protection system with 41 wetlands of international importance, more than 550 wetland nature reserves, and more than 400 wetland parks. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20), more than 200,000 hectares of wetland were added, and the wetland protection rate reached over 50 percent.
Below are 20 famous wetlands across China.
Wansheng Economic and Technological Development Zone, Chongqing municipality (Photo/Xinhua)
- Previous：One natural gas transport plan killed in New Jersey as another forges ahead
- Next：Pamela Anderson goes make
Related articles
- ABC News president Kim Godwin steps down
- NBC will stick with dual announcers and analysts for the US Open
- King Charles III's coronation anniversary is marked by ceremonial gun salutes across London
- 155 police officers injured at German soccer match, most from tear
- Sports betting roundup: Betting the under works in hockey Game 7s while basketball goes over
- Turkey says it has carried out new airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq
- Money isn't enough to smooth the path for Republican candidates hoping to retake the Senate
- Minnesota legislators consider constitutional amendment to protect abortion and LGBTQ rights
- These 15 AP photos capturing migrants' struggle were honored with a Pulitzer Prize
- Woman reveals horror of being sexually abused by her cousin's fiancé, 26, when she was 12 years old
- Judges ask whether lawmakers could draw up new House map in time for this year's elections
- It's 20 years since the last ever episode of Friends. But from body
- They shared a name — but not a future. How two kids fought to escape poverty in Baltimore
- Revealed: Bernard Hill's touching seven
- Polish prosecutors open investigation after judge flees to autocratic Belarus
- Coach Amorim vows to stay with Sporting Lisbon after winning another Portuguese league
- Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin, the dominant NASCAR Cup Series drivers, could have a blooming rivalry
- US and Philippine forces stage combat drills near strategic channel off southern Taiwan
- Talor Gooch of LIV Golf gets a special invitation to the PGA Championship
- Strictly's Katya Jones, 34, shares fears over her 'maternal clock' amid busy dance schedule
Random recommendation
- Copyright © 2024 Powered by World Wetlands Day: A glimpse of China's "earth’s kidneys" ,World Wander news portal sitemap