Coastal Wetlands Scenery in China

Fish ponds, farmland and windmill generators are the most common scenery around the coastal wetlands of Dafeng Conservation Area, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. According to the Administrative Provisions on Marine Functional Zonings 2011-2020, nearly 250,000 hectares of coastal wetlands will disappear by 2020 due to land reclamation projects. The government of Jiangsu Province also plans to reclaim extra 180,000 hectares of coastal wetland during this period.

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江苏省盐城市大丰保护区风光

2017年6月 30日。江苏省盐城市大丰保护区。鱼塘、农田、风电，是滨海湿地周边最常见的风光。根据沿海各省2011-2020年的海洋功能区划，到2020年依然有近25万公顷的滨海湿地将会因建设用围填海工程而消失。期间，江苏省还计划沿海滩涂围垦18万公顷。

Unique identifier: GP0STRCPL

Type: Image

Shoot date: 30/06/2017

Locations: China, East Asia, Jiangsu

Credit line: © Shi bai Xiao / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Land Reclamation Projects Threaten the Last Remaining Coastal Wetlands in China

The speed and scale of land reclamation is the primary threat to the environment of China's coastal wetlands. During land reclamation projects, huge changes take place in the local biodiversity and habitat of migratory birds and other species, but also for those fishermen communities who have been closely bound up with the coastal wetlands from generation to generation. The reclamation projects that are occupying the coastal wetlands illegally and the poor supervision of land use after the reclamation have caused great damage and threats to the natural coastal wetlands and local biodiversity.
To protect the 800 million mu (1mu=0.0006667km²) wetland in China and preserve the national ecological security, it is necessary to effectively delineate and implement the ecological protection “red line”, a set of ecological guidelines issued on February 2017 by Chinese central authorities that will declare certain regions under mandatory and rigorous protection.

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