Cctv news(Reporter Wang Ruxi): On the morning of July 7, the State Council Press Office held a press conference. Cui Shuhong, director of the Department of Natural Ecological Protection of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, introduced that the number of giant pandas in the wild in China has reached more than 1,800, and the threat level has dropped from endangered to vulnerable. What efforts have we made to reduce the giant panda from endangered to vulnerable?

Not only do we have "checking accounts", but we have also done more.

In order to find out the family background of the national treasure giant panda, up to now, China has carried out four national giant panda surveys. A field survey of giant pandas in the 1980s showed that there were only 1,114 pandas in the wild at that time. In 2015, the results of the fourth national giant panda survey released by the State Forestry Administration showed that by the end of 2013, the number of wild giant pandas in China had reached 1,864, with a habitat area of 2.58 million hectares. Compared with the third survey, it increased by 16.8% and 11.8% respectively in 10 years, and the number of wild pandas increased steadily.

Wild giant panda

Judging from the captive giant pandas, the number of captive giant pandas was only 104 in 1990, and by the end of 2020, it had reached 633, more than six times that of 1990.

In order to find out the "hukou" of giant pandas and better protect them, the fourth giant panda survey includes seven aspects: wild population, habitat, animals distributed in the same domain, interference factors, protection management, captive population and economic and social conditions in the distribution area. The survey area is nearly 4.36 million hectares, with a total investment of more than 2,000 people, and 20,513 survey sample lines and 11,901 vegetation survey sample plots have been completed.

The giant panda’s decline from endangered to vulnerable is inseparable from China’s efforts in biodiversity protection and ecological restoration. As an important part of ecological civilization construction, biodiversity protection has been gradually incorporated into various national plans and plans. In June, 2020, the National Master Plan of Major Projects for the Protection and Restoration of Important Ecosystems (2021— In 2035), arrangements were made for comprehensively strengthening the protection and restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity. By the end of 2019, there were 11,800 nature reserves in China, with a total area of over 170 million hectares, accounting for 18% of the land area. At present, the delineation of the national ecological protection red line has been basically completed, and the proportion of the initially delineated national ecological protection red line area is not less than 25% of the land area. At the same time, China’s supervision and law enforcement efforts have been continuously strengthened, and illegal and criminal acts endangering biodiversity have been severely cracked down. In 2019, there were nearly 10,000 illegal cases involving wild animals in China. Through severe crackdown, the total number of illegal cases involving wild animals continued to decline.

In addition to "one hand ‘ Rolling ’ " And these beautiful figures.

It is understood that the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species divides endangered category into seven categories, from high to low: extinction, wild extinction, extremely endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near endangered and non-endangered. Among them, extremely endangered, endangered and vulnerable species are collectively called threatened species. The Red List of Species is a global framework for recording the living conditions of species and evaluating whether there is extinction risk. With the support of many data, scientists reassign the species that meet certain criteria to a threatened level. When the species is assigned to a higher level, it is called "upgrading", and vice versa. These hundreds of species data are updated every year, including population number, distribution, threatened situation and protection progress.

The threat level of giant pandas has been reduced from endangered to vulnerable, and many netizens have said: "I hope to realize panda freedom as soon as possible" ‘ Gungun ’ ！” ……

In addition to the giant panda, there has been a lot of news about biodiversity in recent times. One of the most mysterious cats in the world, the national first-class protected animal, the desert cat, was photographed in Qilian Mountain Reserve. Three brown-necked hornbills were photographed in the forest at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters in Yunnan, and the northeast tiger of Heilongjiang entered the village. Whales appeared in Shenzhen Dapeng Bay, and rare and endangered wild animals such as wild giant pandas and snow leopards frequently appeared.

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These beautiful figures "return" to people’s field of vision, reflecting China’s achievements in biodiversity protection and ecological restoration.