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Lhasa
Nature Reserve |
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Lhalu
wetland, covering 6.2 square kilometres
near Lhasa at an elevation of 3,645
metres, is the largest wetland in any
of China's urban districts. More than
95 per cent of the wetland is covered
with grass and other plants. It plays
an important role in safeguarding ecological
balance, preserving biodiversity, improving
the climate and environment of Lhasa
City, capital of the Tibet Autonomous
Region in southwest China.
The wetland area has shrunk from 10
square kilometres in the 1960s due to
fish ponds, crop cultivation and the
construction of new houses. Some parts
of the wetland have dried up, reducing
wildlife and fish. Lhasa has made some
achievements in protecting Lhalu Wetland,
considered the world's highest wetland.
To protect the wetland, Tibet has turned
Lhalu into a regional nature reserve
and is preparing for the promotion of
the reserve to national status, and
the Lhasa government issued a regulation
protecting the Lhalu Wetland last April
and allocated 100 million yuan (US$12.1
million) for protection.
Scenes
like this are not allowed anymore
Look
inside at will but don't you step in
At the same time, Lhasa City has drawn
up a plan on protecting the nature reserve
and enacted a regulation on administration
of it. A special administrative center
has been set up to stop different kinds
of damaging acts, with focus placed
on cracking down on grassland destruction,
wildlife poaching, and sand and stone
digging around the wetland. The administrative
center has demolished a group of greenhouses,
temporary earthen brick bungalows and
shelters, open-air vegetable plots around
the nature reserve. Two prefabricated
concrete parts factories have also been
moved out of the nature reserve. Irrigation
works in the reserve was improved and
more than 7,500 trees were planted around
the reserve for a better ecological
environment. Efforts have been made
to lure rare and precious birds to the
wetland nature reserve. Now, tens of
thousands of ducks and gulls have returned
to the Lhalu Wetland in the Tibet Autonomous
Region because the environment there
has improved.
Humanbeings
advised to keep off
Birds
must feel it safe before landing
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