China starts the plan of full coverage protection of native plant species

The China Botanical Garden alliance, initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and jointly initiated by the State Forestry Administration and the Ministry of housing and urban rural development, was established in Beijing today The Alliance launched a "full coverage protection plan for indigenous species", aiming to achieve the collection and safe preservation of full coverage of native plants in China through 10 years of efforts Chen Jin, President of China Botanical Garden alliance and director of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced that there are more than 200 botanical gardens in China, but only 66% of the native plants are preserved now, and only 34% of the rare and endangered plants are preserved; moreover, there is a lack of balanced protection for different genetic diversity and different geographical provenances, and there is a lack of top-level design and division of labor for species conservation among botanical gardens Cooperation mechanism According to the plan, it is expected to increase the conservation rate of native plant species to 80%, rare and endangered plant species to 70% in the next five years, and effectively increase the backup conservation and genetic diversity conservation of species Chen Jin said: "the so-called full coverage plan is not simply to collect and preserve more than 30000 kinds of higher plants in the national botanical garden, but on the basis of making a systematic assessment of the threatened status of plants in the target area, mainly aiming at the threatened species, according to the threatened degree, to take a variety of measures, such as seed conservation, living plant conservation and genetic diversity collection and conservation, and ultimately achieve Full coverage of relocation preservation "