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Principle and Planning of Wetland Protection
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- 4.5.1 Guiding ideology of wetland protection
- 4.5.2 Basic principle of wetland protection
- 4.5.3 Planning objective of the wetland protection
- 4.5.4 General layout of the wetland protection planning
- 4.5.4.1 Natural protection category
- 4.5.4.2 Protective development
- 4.5.4.3 Category of proper development
- 4.5.5 Protection plan of Puxiazhou (including Xindangzhou) wetland
4.5 Principle and Planning of Wetland Protection(Information source is from the wetland protection planning report drawn up by Fuzhou Urban Planning Bureau and Fujian Normal University in December, 2003, but this planning has not been approved yet by the local people’s congress.) The wetland at the Minjiang river mouth is not only an important natural habitat of the migratory birds from the Northeast Asia and Australia, but also important hibernacula of the aquatic birds. From September to next January, more than ten thousands of the aquatic birds fly here every day, which are mainly swimming birds and winter migratory birds. Variety of birds and number of birds all rank first among river mouth wetlands. There are a lot of fishponds, ditches, dry polders, reed and grassy marshes at the middle section of the Minjiang river mouth. The environment features transit from the land to the wetland. The small ecologic environment is complicated and diversified, so land birds and aquatic birds mingle with each other. There are many high forest, bushes, grassland and farmland at the upper section of the Minjiang river mouth; birds are mainly Passeriformes and land birds. There are a relatively large number of local breeding birds. At present, Fuzhou has not established natural wetland protection area yet. But the provincial government and related planning and research departments have paid great importance to the protection of the wetland. They have worked out principles and plans to protect the wetland. The following materials and data are cited from their plans. 4.5.1 Guiding ideology of wetland protectionAccording to the current situation of Fuzhou’s population, resources, ecology and environment, adhering to the principle of maintaining the ecological balance of the wetland system, protecting wetland functions and wetland varieties of the living things, and realizing sustainable initialization of the resources, we should persist in the policy of “overall protection, ecology in priority, paying attention to key points, rational utilization and sustainable development”, bring the role of the wetland into full play in ecologic, economic and social benefits of the regional national economy. 4.5.2 Basic principle of wetland protection
4.5.3 Planning objective of the wetland protectionGeneral objective: strengthen the protection of the regional wetland and varieties of the living things in an all round way, maintain the ecologic features and basic functions of the wetland ecologic system, pay great importance to protect internationally and domestically important wetland, bring the functions and benefits of the regional wetland ecologic system into the maximum play, thus enabling the wetland resource to utilize continuously and benefit the generations. Short-term objective (to 2005): through making an overall survey on the current situation of the regional wetland and enhancing the promotion and education, promote the whole society to understand, know and concern about the wetland; pay great attention to wetland protection; strengthen the management according to law; establish an assessment system for wetland development, so as to check the decreasing trend of the natural wetland area resulted from irrational development and utilization of the wetland due to free change of the wetland use or serious destruction of the wetland ecologic functions; by means of the formulation and implementation of the protection planning, check the indiscriminate catching of the wetland wild animals or any actions of seriously destroying the wetland biologic resources; setup a well coordinated wetland management unit and an effective coordinating system among various departments concerned, so as to provide a management guarantee for the effective implementation of our wetland protection plan. Medium- and long-term objectives (to 2010): establish a province-level or State-level natural wetland protection area at the Minjiang river mouth (Shanyutan); upon such basis, gradually expand the natural wetland protection area; establish a relatively complete wetland monitoring system; rehabilitate the retrograded wetland to some extent; significantly improve the ecologic functions; natural wetland and varieties of the living things are effectively protected; wetland protection and regional economy develop coordinately, bring ecologic, economic and social benefits into effective play; and form a fine management procedure on wetland protection and rational utilization. 4.5.4 General layout of the wetland protection planningIt shall bring various categories of the wetlands into full play on the basis of category, nature, protected object, quality of the varieties of the living things, ecologic functions of the natural wetland at the Minjiang river mouth, and the general development strategy of the wetland. Wetland protection is divided into 3 categoris for the wetland at the Minjiang river mouth. 4.5.4.1 Natural protection categoryNatural protection area shall be established for this category. Shanyutan wetland on the south of Langqidao Island is the largest natural wetland of the sand soil at the Minjiang river mouth area, which mainly consists of Jiangzhong sandbank, grassy marsh, and marine sand accumulation. Since this wetland is positioned at the Minjiang river mouth area, favorable geographic position, rich foods and ideal habitats attract hundred thousands of birds of over 100 varieties to live, feed, transit and breed here, and has become a transit habitat to other places along the river upward. Lots of fishes and shrimps lay eggs and spend their baby time at this wetland. This wetland is an area where accommodates the largest number of the birds and richest varieties of the birds at the Minjiang Valley, so it should establish a natural protection area as the key protection place. Shanyutan natural protection area covers a total area of 22.23km2, with a water area of about 0.29km2. In order to better protect it and play its different functions and further define it as a core area, a buffer area and an experimental area as well, the core area is a distribution place and a State key protection area for aquatic birds and migratory birds jointly protected by Sin-Japan and -Australia for feeding and living, totaling an area of 9.95km2. 4.5.4.2 Protective developmentSmall protection area shall be established for this category to make it become a wetland ecologic sightseeing area that integrates protection with tourism. There are several flood land, grassland and sandbank with areas ranging from several thousands to ten thousands mu at the Minjiang river mouth area, including Bianfuzhou, Daoqingzhou, Puxiazhou, Tajiaozhou and Changanzhou. 4.5.4.3 Category of proper developmentBesides the natural protection area and the small protection area should be established at the wetlands mentioned above, there are some sandbanks and grassy wetland. Since their areas are relatively small (most of them cover only several hundred mu to about 1000 mu), close to the bank, and greatly affected by artificial factors, most of those wetlands have been reclaimed or built into fishponds or farmland. They are figured in Fuzhou’s land use plan for ecologic treatment and urban green system. On the basis of their features on geographic position and resource, they become a part of the urban green system for redevelopment. 4.5.5 Protection plan of Puxiazhou (including Xindangzhou) wetlandRelatively to Puxiazhou, Xindangzhou is a high grassy wetland surrounded by water. With the use of the principles of the landscape ecology and economics and on the basis of ecologic engineering, it shall be protectively remolded. The existing forest belt system, reed system, fishpond and river branch system shall be rehabilitated and perfected, so as to enable them to form a crossed combination with rational proportions, optimize a combination between species and a combination between species and environment. It shall build them into a complex ecologic system composed of forest, reed and fish, where the natural ecologic system and artificial ecologic system are well harmonized and coordinated, thus forming a wetland category with fine ecologic benefit and fine landscape benefit. Besides Puxiazhou, there are several flood land, grassland, sandbank with areas ranging from several thousands to ten thousands mu at the Minjiang river mouth area, including Bianfuzhou, Daoqingzhou, Puxiazhou, Tajiaozhou and Changanzhou. Together with Shanyutan, in the wetland ecologic chain at the Minjiang river mouth, they don’t only play a function of a natural storage reservoir, but also an important role in regulating Minjiang’s runoff, relieving flood peak, regulating urban air temperature and humidity, retaining and degrading pollutant in the upstream of the Minjiang River. As a main ecologic corridor to the inland from coast of Fujian Province and the wetland chain, for the protection of various living things, they provide the hygrophyte with a necessary growing environment; provide various animals with breeding grounds, feeding grounds and fine habitats. 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