The construction of my country’s first batch of national parks has achieved remarkable results

CCTV News Client News (News Network): The reporter learned from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration that in the five years since the establishment of the first five national parks, the national park system with Chinese characteristics has been basically established, and the quality of the ecosystem and the number of flagship species have been improved.

The protected area of ​​the first batch of five national parks reaches 230,000 square kilometers, and representative important ecosystems such as river sources, alpine forests, and temperate coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests are included in the protection scope, achieving large-scale, all-factor, and holistic protection and restoration of important ecological spaces.

In the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, this little tiger in front of the infrared camera said hello to the camera with a calm head. This one is even cuter, hiding behind a tree and sticking out its little head, sticking out its tongue, as if it's playing hide-and-seek with us. The monitoring system also records the growth process of more such "little tiger cubs" into giants.

In the past five years, the first batch of national park flagship species has achieved a historic breakthrough in the protection of national parks. The Tibetan antelope population in Sanjiangyuan has recovered to more than 70,000. The Hainan gibbon population has expanded to 7 groups of 44 individuals, making it the only gibbon group in the world with a continuously growing population. The Giant Panda National Park protects more than 70% of the country's wild giant pandas. Wuyishan National Park has successively discovered many new species such as the Rain God Horned Toad, Wuyi Wood Rana, and Fujian Gastrodia elata, continuing to enrich the biodiversity background.

While the population of flagship species is growing steadily, the quality of natural ecosystems in key areas continues to improve.

Each national park coordinates and promotes the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand, and implements a series of measures such as habitat restoration, ecological corridor connection, and management and control of human activities. The regional ecological background continues to be consolidated. The evaluation shows that 75% of the first batch of national parks have excellent ecological benefit assessment indicators, and core ecological service functions such as water source conservation, carbon fixation and oxygen release, and soil and water conservation have been effectively improved.