Original title: Giant Panda National Park officially established a four-year pilot program that benefits not only giant pandas
The Giant Panda National Park was officially established yesterday
It’s not just giant pandas that benefited from the four-year pilot
On October 12, at the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity held in Kunming, China announced to the world that the Giant Panda National Park was officially established! Since then, the construction of the Giant Panda National Park has entered a new stage. Since the 1960s, my country has established 67 nature reserves for giant pandas, including 46 in Sichuan. However, the protection and management agencies have multiple branches, scattered establishments, overlapping planning scopes, and multi-head management, which have severely restricted the improvement of the protection and management level of giant pandas. In January 2017, the pilot work of the giant panda national park system was fully launched. This is a state-led protection of the highest level of giant pandas and their habitats. The pilot area spans Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. After the four-year pilot project, the “Kungunmen” got more than just a home.
Straighten out management
Straightening out the management system has become the primary task of the pilot.Implement a set of “access barriers” and management standards
After the Giant Panda National Park Administration was listed on October 29, 2018, the Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau added the “Giant Panda National Park Sichuan Administration” brand in November of that year. A management system dominated by provincial government management.
In January 2019, the 7 branches of the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Giant Panda National Park were listed in Chengdu, Mianyang, Ya’an, Guangyuan, Aba, Deyang, and Meishan at the same time. As a provincial agency, the provincial administration and the municipal (prefecture) government are dual Leadership, a management system based on the management of the city (state) government.
Below the sub-bureaus, various protection agencies are integrated to establish a management station. So far, Sichuan has initially formed a three-level management system of “Provincial Administration-Management Branch-Management Station” for the Giant Panda National Park.
Not only the administrative system, but also innovations in judicial management. Recently, the Mianyang District Court of the Giant Panda National Park tried a case of illegal hunting and killing of rare and endangered wildlife under national key protection. The defendant was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
This court comes from the pilot system of the Giant Panda National Park. In the pilot program, Sichuan has established the Giant Panda National Park Ecological Court, and established regional courts in Chengdu, Deyang, Mianyang, Guangyuan, Ya’an, Meishan and Wolong, and established a giant panda protection ecological prosecutor team to explore the criminal nature of the Giant Panda National Park involving environmental resources. , The trial mode of “three trials in one” for civil and administrative cases.
After the management system is straightened out, even if it is scattered in many regions of the province, the Giant Panda National Park is like a whole, implementing the same set of strict “access barriers” and management standards.
Enhanced protection
Wild pandas appear frequently
What are the effects of giant panda protection in the 4-year pilot program? “Photographed! Photographed!” On the afternoon of August 27, Lu Chao, a ranger in the Wanglang area of the Giant Panda National Park in Sichuan, came across a wild panda while patrolling. It was only 5 days since the last time the rangers in the area met a giant panda.
More than Wanglang area. Since the pilot, wild panda activities in Wolong, Jiudingshan and other places have increased significantly, and reports of villagers in Mianyang, Ya’an, Aba and other places encountering wild pandas are not uncommon. “Behind the frequent appearance of wild giant pandas is Sichuan’s continuous enhancement of protection.” The relevant person in charge of the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Giant Panda National Park said that since the pilot, Sichuan has invested 80 million yuan in integration and completed the original 23 natural reserves. 36 background surveys and 210 special surveys of more than 15,000 square kilometers have basically figured out the main protection targets and resource management status of the pilot area.
Strengthening monitoring and patrol is an important means for upgrading protection methods. Our province has deployed 7,800 infrared camera monitoring sites in the pilot area, and conducted key monitoring of the giant panda habitat of 3336 square kilometers and 1,668 transect lines; a total of more than 900 fixed patrol lines have been set up, and nearly 90,000 patrols of various types have been dispatched. Visitors, covering an area of more than 14,000 square kilometers, a total of more than 30 wild giant panda entities have been discovered.
With giant pandas as the core, Sichuan has carried out biodiversity conservation in pilot areas to maintain the authenticity and integrity of nature.
Data shows that with the full use of the giant panda as its flagship species, the “umbrella protection effect” has helped Sichuan to protect more than 8,000 species of companion animals and plants, and more than 1,600 other species of rare animals in the same region have been discovered during field patrols.
Shared bonus
Let more people benefit from eco-friendly industries
The giant panda national park pilot program has benefited the giant panda and its partners. What do people in the pilot area get?
Previously, there were hundreds of towns and villages in Sichuan involved in the pilot area of the Giant Panda National Park, and the overall economic income level was low. Tens of thousands of villagers were highly dependent on natural resources in their production and lifestyles, and the contradiction between protection and development was more prominent. How to make people live in harmony with giant pandas and with nature?
The National Day holiday just past was a window of observation. During the holidays, Gao Kui, the owner of the “Elements” inn in the Development Village of Longcanggou Town, Yingjing County, made a lot of money. Two years ago, Gao Kui went to the development village to visit relatives. He took a fancy to the local rural tourism potential and invested more than 4 million yuan to rent houses from surrounding villagers to build an inn. Nowadays, there are more and more investors like him in the development village.
Backed by the Giant Panda National Park (on the periphery of the National Park) to develop eco-tourism, the village’s farmhouses have grown from a few years ago to more than 60 today, and the village collective economy has grown from less than 50,000 yuan to 340,000 yuan . The rapid development of the development village has shared the “dividends” of the pilot project of the giant panda national park system.
The relevant person in charge of the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Giant Panda National Park introduced that our province is exploring a sustainable community development mechanism in the construction of national parks, and planning a spatial layout of “points, lines and planes” for spot settlement, online tour, and surface protection. A new ecological pattern of “people retreating and cats entering” has basically formed.
In the 4 years of “adding bricks and adding tiles”, giant pandas and thousands of creatures living on the land of Bashu prospered.
Wang Daiqiang, All Media Reporter, Sichuan Daily
Demystify
Why is the “Giant Panda National Park Sichuan No. 1 Boundary Monument” on the Hongya Wawu Mountain?
This is the “South Gate” of the Giant Panda National Park
On October 12, the reporter learned from the Meishan Management Bureau of the Giant Panda National Park that the “Sichuan No. 1 Stele of the Giant Panda National Park” settled on Wawu Mountain, Hongya County, Meishan City. “Except for the Shimian Liziping area in the Xiaoxiangling area, in the contiguous Minshan area and Qionglai Mountain-Daxiangling area in Sichuan, Wawu Mountain is located at the southernmost end and also the southernmost end of the Giant Panda National Park.” Giant Panda National Park Li Guohua, deputy director of the Meishan Management Bureau, said, “Therefore, Meishan can also be said to be the’South Gate’ of the Giant Panda National Park.”
The Meishan area of the Giant Panda National Park covers an area of about 512 square kilometers, accounting for 1.88% of the total area of the Giant Panda National Park. There are 13 giant pandas in the reserve.
Li Guohua introduced that in June 2019, the Meishan area took the lead in launching the pilot work for the definition of the giant panda national park in the province, and it successfully passed the on-site inspection and acceptance by the expert group in June 2020. In the 200-kilometer boundary and functional area of Meishan area (Wawu Mountain), a total of 361 boundary markers were buried, of which the “Sichuan No. 1 Monument of Giant Panda National Park” settled here.
“The Giant Panda National Park consists of the Minshan Area in Sichuan, the Qionglai Mountain-Daxiangling Area, the Xiaoxiangling Area, the Qinling Area in Shaanxi, and the Baishuijiang Area in Gansu. Among them, Wawu Mountain is located at the southernmost part of the contiguous area in Sichuan. Hongya County of Meishan and Anzhou District of Mianyang took the lead in completing the demarcation work in the province’s pilot projects, so the “Boundary Marker No. 1″ settled in Wawu Mountain.” Li Guohua said.
It is understood that as of now, more than 300,000 people have visited the “Boundary Monument No. 1” on site, becoming the “net celebrity check-in place” in the Wawushan area. “Climbing up the mountain to meet a panda” has also become the wish of countless tourists from Wawu Mountain.
According to incomplete statistics, in 2005, 2009, 2014, 2017, and 2019, Wawushan all clearly photographed wild pandas. Some of them went down to shoot bamboo shoots, some went down to play, and some went down to ask for help.
“The Meishan area will step up to implement the unique Wawushan Giant Panda National Park Exhibition Center exhibition project, integrate the’panda habitat’ characteristics into the overall design, and promote the international image of the Meishan area’s’panda hometown’!” said Li Guohua.
West China Metropolis Daily-Cover News Reporter Li Qing and Wang Yuexin
dialogue
Li Tianman, Director of Sichuan Provincial Administration of Giant Panda National Park:
National parks under the name of a single species
This is the first time in China
The Giant Panda National Park was officially established. What do you think of this important node? How to build a better next step? The reporter interviewed Li Tianman, director of the Provincial Forestry and Grass Bureau and director of the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Giant Panda National Park.
reporter:
What does the official establishment of the Giant Panda National Park mean?
Li Tianman
: National parks are the most important part of our natural ecosystem, the most unique natural landscape, the best natural heritage, and the richest biodiversity. Its protection scope is large, the ecological process is complete, and it has global value. It is also a national symbol and a high degree of national recognition. It is the first time in China to establish a national park under the name of a single species to protect its habitat and ecosystem, which shows that the country attaches great importance to protecting the habitat of giant pandas.
In fact, before the official launch of the pilot program in 2017, Sichuan had planned for many years in advance and had done a lot of basic work. We carried out comprehensive resource mapping and in-depth investigation of system pain points. With the strong support of the national and provincial levels, and the joint promotion of various departments and units in the province, the pilot project was finally started. The opportunity was not easy to come by, and we cherish it very much.
During the pilot period, the Provincial Forestry and Grass Bureau alone mobilized elite forces from multiple offices and institutions to form a powerful Sichuan Provincial Management Organization for the Giant Panda National Park. After more than 4 years of exploration and practice, we are Phased results have been achieved in many aspects.
The official establishment of the Giant Panda National Park is not the end but the starting point. It means that the construction of the Giant Panda National Park has entered a new stage.
reporter:
How will Sichuan focus its efforts on cracking the bottleneck?
Li Tianman
: Our mission and tasks cannot be weakened by the official establishment of national parks. We must continue to work hard in six aspects: one is to improve national park laws, regulations and management systems, the second is to strengthen the protection and restoration of natural ecosystems, and the third is to explore and improve national parks. The fourth is the establishment of a social coordination and co-management and joint construction mechanism for the national-owned natural resource asset management system, the fifth is to promote the realization of national parks shared by all, and the sixth is to establish a long-term and stable capital investment guarantee mechanism.
reporter:
Can you imagine the future of the Giant Panda National Park?
Li Tianman
: Under the umbrella of giant pandas, all the rare animals and plants in the national park can be better protected, more giant panda ecological corridors have been built and unblocked, and giant pandas can walk in the national park like humans and relatives. , Free communication, thrive and thrive. At the same time, with the expansion of the giant panda’s habitat and the improvement of its quality, the Giant Panda National Park will truly become a home for giant pandas and other animals and plants.
Wang Daiqiang, All Media Reporter, Sichuan Daily
Pilot scope of the Giant Panda National Park
Across the three provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu
An area of about 27,000 square kilometers
Among them, the Sichuan area is about 20,000 square kilometers, accounting for about 74% of the total area
Since the pilot
68 square kilometers of corridor vegetation restoration completed in Sichuan area
Not only protects the panda
Also let more than 8000 kinds of companion animals and plants get “umbrella protection”
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