Permalink: https://photo.greenpeace.org/archive/Tiaozini-Wetlands--Dongtai--Jiangsu-Province--China-27MZIFJXI5NAO.htmlConceptually similarTiaozini Wetlands, Dongtai, Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRDHCCompleted★★★★★★Sand Extraction in Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRCPPCompleted★★★★Tiaozini Wetlands, Dongtai, Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRDHACompleted★★★★Tiaozini Wetlands, Dongtai, Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRDH5Completed★★★★Light-painting Display on Reclaimed Urban Land in ChinaGP0STRCPNCompleted★★★★★★Coastal Wetlands in Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRCSZCompleted★★★★Coastal Wetlands in Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRDH9Completed★★★★★★Wetland Fisherman in a Livestock Farm in ChinaGP0STRCPICompleted★★★★Wetland Mud Snails Fishermen in ChinaGP0STRCPTCompleted★★★★View AllGP0STRDH2Tiaozini Wetlands, Dongtai, Jiangsu Province, ChinaTidal creeks erode sand near a land reclamation site at Tiaozini, Jiangsu province. The land reclamation project poses a major threat to the IUCN critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper and other species. Before 2020, another 59,950 hectares are planned to be reclaimed at Tiaozini and nearby -- a total area that amounts to more than ten times the size of Manhattan.In original language:湿地上被潮水冲出潮沟2017年8月19日。江苏省东台市条子泥湿地。在围垦区域附近,潮水把淤积的泥滩冲出了一道道深邃的潮沟。Locations:China-East Asia-JiangsuDate:19 Aug, 2017Credit:© Shi bai Xiao / GreenpeaceMaximum size:6048px X 4032pxKeywords:Beaches-Coastlines-Day-Forests (campaign title)-High angle view-KWCI (GPI)-Landscapes-Outdoors-Sand-WetlandsShoot:Land Reclamation Projects Threaten the Last Remaining Coastal Wetlands in ChinaThe 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.Related Collections:Land Reclamation Projects Threaten the Last Remaining Coastal Wetlands in China (Photos & Video)