Yunnan sets “red lines” for ecological conservation

The government of Yunnan province recently released its initiative “red lines for ecological conservation.” The document explicitly sets the limits, or red lines, for ecological conservation. Land area to be preserved must be a minimum of 118,400 square kilometres, accounting for 30.90 percent of the province’s land area.

The province’s “red lines for ecological conservation” include “three shields and two belts.” The “three shields” refer to the alpine valley ecological barrier in northwestern Yunnan along the southern side of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the mountain ecological barrier from the Ailao Mountains to the Wanliang Mountains, and the tropical forest ecological barrier along China’s border in the south of the province. The “two belts” refer to the dry-hot valleys along the Jinsha River, the Lancang River and the Honghe River and the karst areas in the southeast of the province.

There are animals and plants within the “red lines for ecological conservation” intiative that are identified as protected species. The key species include Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys, clouded leopards, green peacocks, Taxus yunnanensis, Chinese dove trees, Manglietiastrum sinicum and Cyathea spinulosa.

 

Yunnan sets “red lines” for ecological conservation

The government of Yunnan province recently released its initiative red lines for ecological conservation. The document explicitly sets the limits, or red lines, for ecological conservation. Land area to be preserved must be a minimum of 118,400 square kilometres, accounting for 30.90 percent of the provinces land area. The provinces red lines for ecological conservation include three shields and two belts. The three shields refer to the alpine valley ecological barrier in northwestern Yunnan along the southern side of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the mountain ecological barrier from the Ailao Mountains to the Wanliang Mountains, and the tropical forest ecological barrier along Chinas border in the south of the province. The two belts refer to the dry-hot valleys along the Jinsha River, the Lancang River and the Honghe River and the karst areas in the southeast of the province. There are animals and plants within the red lines for ecological conservation intiative that are identified as protected species. The key species include Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys, clouded leopards, green peacocks, Taxus yunnanensis, Chinese dove trees, Manglietiastrum sinicum and Cyathea spinulosa.