Ningbo speeding up wetland remediation project
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- Category: Ningbo District
- Published: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 14:03
Jiulonghu Wetland Park, a project covering over 500 ha, recently started its construction and is to complete in four months.
Investigation shows that There is a general decrease of national wetland in Ningbo and an increase of man-made wetland, and the decrease is faster than the increase. In the last year, following the newly release "Rules of Protection of Wetland of Zhejiang", Ningbo initiated the wetland remediation project. This project aims to remediate the wetland and making scientific protection and rational development of the water bodies, landscape, animal and plant resources and historical and cultural resources.
Statistics show that Ningbo Area put about 100 million yuan in the wetland remediation project, pushing forward the remediation of over 10 wetlands including Yuyao Urban Wetland, Yinzhou Jiaokou Wetland and Dongqianhu Mashan Wetland. The area remediated totals over 8000 mu. The Andong Marsh at Hangzhou Bay Wetland is listed in Directory of Major Wetlands of China. The Nanjiu Mountain Wetland and a Wetland in Beilun are respectively made provincial-level reserve and municipal-level reserve.
