国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Lifestyle
Home / Lifestyle / News

Green group reports on China's biodiversity

By Liu Zhihua | China Daily | Updated: 2013-11-14 09:43
Green group reports on China's biodiversity

People know climate change has been unsettling our planet's geological, biological and ecological systems, but how does it affect the living animals and plants on our planet, especially those rare species that live in protected areas?

Recently, the Nature Conservancy, an international green group, released a report in Beijing to address the question.

The organization launched a study in 2009 to analyze the impact of climate change in China's 32 land biodiversity conservation priority areas.

"We hope the study will provide a feasible approach for policy makers to respond to climate change, and better preserve biodiversity in protected areas," says Ma Jian, who directed the research project in China.

According to the study, within 50 years, the yearly average temperatures of the 32 assessed areas will

increase by about 3 C, and in 100 years, the jump will be as much as 5 C.

Ma says China now has 20 biomes, or large geographical areas of distinctive plant and animal groups that are adapted to a particular environment, and by the end of the century there will be 24.

During that time, the sizes and locations of those biomes will shift, some to higher altitude areas and some to lower altitudes. "The vegetation is changing in conservation priority areas," says Chen Ai, a biologist with TNC. "The more dramatic the vegetation change is, the more significant the alteration of all living species in those areas will be.

Green group reports on China's biodiversity

Rare bird finds sanctuary

Green group reports on China's biodiversity

Bleat of the hybrid ushers in new era

"Conservation areas are the most effective means to protect biodiversity, and they need more special protection to cope with climate change."

The TNC report points out that the Hengduan Mountain Region, stretching across the border areas of Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, are most sensitive to climate change and consequent possibilities of ecological changes. The areas are very complicated geographically, and have a wide range of rare species, such as giant pandas, Chen notes.

Based on prediction models, TNC estimates that forests in that area will undergo complicated distribution changes in 100 years, and the giant panda habitat areas in the region will shrink 56 percent.

Pandas will move to the north, and to higher altitudes, so policy makers will need to define new protection areas for them, according to Jin Tong, a scientist with the organization. Human interference with pandas' migrating path poses another threat, she adds.

Cai Lei, deputy director with the Ministry of Environmental Protection's biodiversity office, says the government appreciates what TNC has done. "We hope to cooperate with them to better protect our environment."

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
新余市| 武平县| 湘阴县| 剑阁县| 龙州县| 建始县| 婺源县| 大港区| 永德县| 内乡县| 同江市| 克拉玛依市| 苏州市| 共和县| 汉川市| 隆尧县| 荣昌县| 余江县| 阿图什市| 古丈县| 苏尼特左旗| 武山县| 天峨县| 蛟河市| 龙门县| 台中县| 云安县| 武强县| 卫辉市| 天峻县| 肇东市| 屏山县| 凉山| 余干县| 温泉县| 庄河市| 庆云县| 镇远县| 疏勒县| 镶黄旗| 郎溪县|