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Forests (campaign title)
KWCI (GPI)
Nature
Outdoors
Raining
Sand
Snails
Water
Wetlands
Mud Snail on Wetland in China
The mud snail (Bullacta exarata), very popular for people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province. The inshore tidal wetland is an important source of income for those fishermen who catch the mud snails as a living. This wetland is also the habitat for migratory birds, who share the land with fishermen communities.
There are plans for a major land reclamation in this area, which would make the wetlands disappear.
In original language:
滩涂湿地上的泥螺
2017年8月20日。江苏省东台市条子泥,备受江浙人民喜爱的泥螺真身。退潮后的滩涂湿地,是拾泥螺的渔民的生活来源,也是和他们共享一片湿地的候鸟们赖以生存的栖息地。
Unique identifier:
GP0STRDH1
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
20/08/2017
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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