More than 3,000 kinds of higher plants are threatened Wild plants need better protection

Wild plants are an important part of natural ecosystem, a very valuable natural resources and strategic resources, with high ecological, economic, cultural and social value, but at present, the protection directory update lags behind, laws and regulations are not perfect, protection awareness is indifferent, weak law enforcement efforts and other short boards, restricting the effective development of protection work.
, China is soliciting public comments on the National List of Key Protected Wild Plants, and will further strengthen the protection of wild plants. Why revise and adjust the directory? What is the situation of wild plant protection in China? How will the future be better protected? The reporter conducted an interview on this.plants are the direct or indirect source of human food and the material resources of economic development.
All the food, vegetables, fruits, etc. on which human beings depend are plants, and the food, cotton, oil, hemp, silk, tea, sugar, vegetables, tobacco, fruit, medicine, etc. needed for economic construction and people's livelihood are taken from plants, and all kinds of livestock, poultry, fish, etc. are raised, and plants are also needed as feed sources. Industrial development also requires plants as raw materials or products used in plants. Jia Jiansheng, deputy director of the wildlife protection department of the State Forestry and Grass Administration, pointed out.
years, with the continuous development of economy and society and the gradual growth of population, people's demand for wild plant resources is increasing, and the destruction of wild plant resources is becoming more and more serious.
worldwide, large-scale deforestation, industrial pollutants and large-scale discharge of living pollutants have greatly worsened the habitat of wild plants and destroyed the living environment of mankind. Jia Jiansheng said that the world's tropical rainforests disappear with 10% of the annual area, continuous ecosystems become fragmented "islands", plant species diversity and genetic diversity decline, inappropriate climate makes many plants difficult to adapt and extinction. Of the 30,000 species of higher plants in Our country, more than 3,000 are in a threatened or endangered situation.
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researcher at the China Institute of Plant Research, points out that plants and humans are the main components of the Earth's biosphere and an important factor in ecosystem balance. The more plants there are, the less human influence they have, and the more complex and stable the ecosystem becomes. Extinction of a species not only untamed genetic resources of the species, but also may trigger a chain reaction of its survival network, leading to the extinction of a series of species and even the instability of ecosystems, ecological disasters.
"s study shows that a plant is often accompanied by 10 to 30 biological species. Once a plant becomes extinct, 10 to 30 species of life are implicated and affected. Jia Jiansheng said, therefore, it is necessary to protect the environment, more rational use and protection of plant diversity.
this context, it is particularly important to update and adjust the protection list as soon as possible to objectively show the public the current endangered status of wild plant species, and to provide a reliable basis for the government to formulate protection policies and enforce the law.For more thanyears, China has continuously strengthened the protection of wild plants, and in 1999 issued the National List of Key Protection of Wild Plants (first batch), which protects more than 300 kinds of precious plants that grow naturally in China and endangered and rare plants with important economic, scientific and cultural value.
entering the new century, our government has been paying more attention to ecological protection and construction work, and the protection of wildlife has been continuously strengthened through the start-up and implementation of key national projects such as natural forest protection and wildlife protection. The country has also established 118,000 natural protection areas, protected 90 per cent of vegetation types and terrestrial ecosystems, 65 per cent of higher plant community, established more than 200 botanical gardens and tree gardens, preserved more than 20,000 species of higher plants, and carried out field returns of 200 rare plants.
the example of orchid plants, the Guangxi Yalang Lanco Nature Reserve was established in 2005 for the purpose of local protection. With the gradual improvement of the network of protected areas represented by national nature reserves and national parks, the local protection of orchid plants in China has achieved further results. According to the nature reserve protection directory and the results of the field work survey, about 70% of the Lanco species in China are distributed in national nature reserves and other protected areas, local protection has also become the main way of protection of orchid plants in China.
is known as the "living fossil" of the plant kingdom. "At present, we have completed the investigation of the native mother tree population and habitat of wild water fir, realized the listing and location monitoring of each wild jellywood tree, and established a database of wild water fir native mother tree population. Wild water fir breeding, protection technology also has a certain research basis, and has established a corresponding demonstration base. Jia Jiansheng said.
In addition, through the rescue protection of nearly 100 species of wild plants in nearly 100 very small populations, such as Debaosu Iron, Huagai wood, Baishan ancestral fir and Tiantai goose ears, as well as the local protection of wild close-up species of crops such as wild rice and wild soybeans, the population of some endangered wild plants has been gradually restored.
Said that the National List of Key Protected Wild Plants (Draft for Comments) contains 468 species and 25 species of wild plants, 53 species and 2 categories of first-class protection, 415 species and 23 categories of secondary protection, "the number of species included has more than doubled, and the scope of protection has been significantly expanded."experts believe that wild plant protection is a long-term systematic project, need to further improve laws and regulations, but also need everyone to strengthen awareness, starting from me, to jointly protect wild plants.
Jia Jiansheng pointed out that after the list adjustment, will follow up the revision of wild plant protection regulations, and encourage provinces to introduce appropriate laws and regulations, from the law for wild plant protection "guard." In addition, on the basis of continuing to strengthen efforts to protect rare and endangered wild plants in place, relocation and return to the wild, law enforcement will be strengthened and efforts will be stepped up to combat illegal and criminal activities against wild plants.
" At present, the overall level of development of China's wild plant cultivation and utilization industry is still low, large-scale, intensive degree is not high, low degree of industrial amassing, radiation-driven capacity is weak; Jia Jiansheng pointed out that strengthening the legal system and carrying out research and demonstration on the large-scale cultivation and sustainable use of wild plant resources in an orderly manner will be an important work for wild plant protection in the future.
" human activities have been and will continue to be one of the main threats to plant diversity. Addressing this threat requires not only legislation to prohibit human violations, but also a sense of protection. Jia Jiansheng said the public should enhance the awareness of the protection of rare and endangered plants, strengthen the study of laws and regulations related to the protection of rare and endangered plants, and establish and strengthen the natural concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
"We must not only protect wild plants, but also protect their growing environment, not only to restrain ourselves from destroying wild plant resources, but also to start from the consumer end, to reject rare and endangered wild plants from indiscriminate mining, as well as consumer goods made from rare and endangered wild plants." Zhang Zhixiang, a professor at Beijing Forestry University's School of Nature Reserves, said.