Tiaozini Wetlands, Dongtai, Jiangsu Province, China

Mudflats at Tiaozini, Jiangsu province, have silted up. A fishing boat is seen in the distance. A major land reclamation project at Tiaozini threatens the survival of 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:

江苏省东台市条子泥湿地

2017年8月19日。江苏省东台市条子泥湿地。近处是已经淤涨的滩涂，远处停泊着不怎么使用的渔船。

Unique identifier: GP0STRDH5

Type: Image

Shoot date: 19/08/2017

Locations: China, East Asia, Jiangsu

Credit line: © Shi bai Xiao / Greenpeace

Size: 6035px × 4023px 11MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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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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