July 3, Shiqu County wetlands expedition Seminar held in Los shall Shiqu town. Former Deputy Director of the State Forestry Division of Wildlife Conservation, Wetlands International - China Office, Northeast Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Chen Kelin, Director of the Global Environment Centre (GEC), wetlands expert Faizal Parish, Wetlands International senior consultant John Howes, Germany technical cooperation Centre (GIZ) Director of wetlands international senior advisor Shen Luan strong 9 Chinese and foreign experts and wetlands Ganzi people's Government, deputy governor Shuda Chun, Shiqu county party secretary Yuan Mingguang, Shiqu County deputy secretary, county agents Rollins and other relevant leaders Shiqu County and relevant departments attended the seminar. Shiqu County deputy secretary, county agents rollin Chair.

Shiqu county party secretary Yuan Mingguang said in his speech, Shiqu County is located in Sichuan, Qinghai and Tibet provinces (regions) with the Department, set "high, big, side, far, poor" in one. The county a total area of ??wetland about 1.1 million hectares, accounting for about one-third of the county covers an area of ??China's rarest alpine wetland base. "Twelve Five" period has started Shiqu national, provincial anti-desertification project illustrates the point, the Sichuan-Tibet regulation, wetland restoration and other ecological management projects with a total investment of 125 million yuan, an area of ??8763.03 hectares governance. Through the construction of ecological protection, ecological management of wetland conservation and management of the county's wetland restoration have been greatly improved, and snow leopard, Tibetan wild ass, black-necked cranes and other major protected object rendering recovery trends.Experts Shiqu county government to take the initiative to protect wetlands give a high evaluation.

The experts of the delegation of the expedition were summarized, it agreed that Shiqu wetland is one of the world's most beautiful wetlands. Diversity, species diversity and ecological significance Shiqu wetlands is very important. Especially when the experts in Shiqu county Shagong Ma Township ligation dam wetland find well-preserved, with an average depth of about five meters valuable peatland, and the measurements are expected peatland about 30 --- 400,000 hectares, experts his face could not conceal the excitement.

Former Deputy Director of the State Forestry Division of Wildlife Conservation, Wetlands International - China Office, Northeast Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Chen Kelin told reporters, I think with two sentences can be completely summarized the expedition in Shiqu wetlands result. The first is one of the most beautiful wetlands Shiqu is the world; the second is that China is the most important Shiqu plateau wetlands. Chen Kelin think overgrazing is the biggest problem facing Shiqu wetland environment. He told reporters in the future, with the development of eco-tourism Shiqu, Shiqu must do staff training, visitor management, and so on preparations.

Faizal Parish, Global Environment Centre (GEC) director, said Shiqu beautiful scenery, is one of the world's most beautiful wetlands he had seen, and its high ecological value.I am also from a professional point of view, diverse wetlands Shiqu, there are many different types. Successive governments attach great importance to wetland conservation, we examine the process have also seen some of the more rare animals and plants. Such as black-necked cranes, blue sheep, Tibetan gazelle. The treasure of flora and fauna can survive in Shiqu, showing where the ecological environment is very good. Culturally speaking, we can see very unique tent. Local people directly involved in wetland conservation, which is very commendable behavior. Of course, also facing some problems, population growth, livestock growth. Including today's seminar, showing that the county government, the state government is also actively looking for ways to cope. County, state government has done a lot of planning, we have this expedition to the local government made a lot of recommendations.

For experts give Shiqu wetlands such a high rating, Shiqu county party secretary Yuan Mingguang said, after the increase wetland protection efforts, co-guardian "Chinese water tower."

It is understood that this research expedition time 2016 June 28 to July 4, aims to understand the status of the territory Shiqu County wetland resources, problems and their causes, to confirm their significance in terms of ecological protection of the State, this expedition to explore the wetland conservation, restoration and sustainable use of value, looking for the road interdisciplinary cooperation of Chinese wetland research, as well as the promotion of Chinese wetlands healthy and orderly development will play a positive role in promoting. (Zhang Liping)