Light-painting Display on Reclaimed Urban Land in China

Greenpeace volunteers create a light painting display on a reclaimed urban land in Dafeng Amusement Park, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, calling for the protection of China's last remaining coastal wetlands.
The light painting writes "During the last half century, over 50% of the coastal wetlands in China disappeared”.

In original language:

光影绘图呼吁保护中国最后的滨海湿地

2017年10月23日。江苏省东台市条子泥湿地。绿色和平志愿者在围垦的城市土地上打出光影绘图，呼吁保护中国最后的滨海湿地。

Unique identifier: GP0STRCPO

Type: Image

Shoot date: 23/10/2017

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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