The amazing Tibetan plateau

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Around 35 degrees north latitude of the earth, many places are deserts, gobi, desert arid land, but here is a vast wetland, lush grass, abundant water, originating in the great rivers here, surging east to the Pacific Ocean, all the way down to the Indian Ocean, water to support more than 2 billion people on the earth.This is the source of water, the home of mountains, and one of the cleanest places on earth.

1. Unique ecological resources

The Tibetan plateau, a very strange place.The annual rainfall here is very small, the precipitation in the west, north and the hinterland is less than 100 mm, and the same latitude of the desert arid land is not much different, but many lakes, incredible water storage, there are more than 1500 lakes, accounting for 49.5 percent of the total area of the country's lakes.Here, the wind is strong, the rain is light and the oxygen is thin, but the forest is full of trees and trees. The forest stock in Tibet alone is equal to the total amount of Finland.This is the largest wetland area in China.

"This is where the Chinese nation should be grateful and grateful."The Tibet autonomous region ecological environment agency policy law office xiao lu said to us, "the Tibetan plateau has an average elevation of 4000 meters above the huge height of the, 260 square kilometers of the vast area, residing in the troposphere is the most active place, with their powerful heat and terrain, dynamic action profoundly affects the east Asian continent, the subcontinent, central Asia and Siberia wide range of weather and climate."He explained that without the presence of forest, grass and wetland water, as in many places at the same latitude, desertification would easily carry dust along the terrain and westerly winds to many parts of the country, including the east, where oases and land of fish and rice might cease to exist.

The Tibetan plateau is a matter of global ecological construction, can be seen in the ecological environment department to provide material, the Chinese government for many years in the deployment of the implementation of the various types of qinghai-tibet plateau ecological protection work, successively in the qinghai-tibet plateau established China's first national nature reserve of baishuijiang nature reserve, China's largest area of the highest national nature reserve, qiangtang nature reserve, China's first national park as the main body to the pilot reform of the natural reserve three national parks.At present, 155 nature reserves at various levels have been established on the qinghai-tibet plateau, accounting for 57.56% of the land nature reserves in China.At the same time,

transfer payments for key ecological zones and compensation mechanisms for the ecological benefits of forests, grasslands and wetlands have been established on the qinghai-tibet plateau.During the 12th five-year plan period, 25.312 billion yuan was allocated for the construction of drinking water, water and soil conservation and water conservancy projects in pastoral areas on the qinghai-tibet plateau.In Tibet, afforestation projects have been carried out along the yarlung zangbo river, the nu river, the Lhasa river, the nianchu river, the yarlung river and the shiquan river. In qinghai, key ecological projects have been carried out to protect the ecology of the qilian mountains, qinghai lake and the three jiangyuan rivers.

Thanks to unremitting efforts, the qinghai-tibet plateau has made remarkable achievements in ecological and environmental protection.Compared with 2004, the Yangtze, yellow and lancang rivers exported an average of 5.8 billion cubic meters more quality water to the lower reaches annually.All provinces and regions in the plateau have basically built a green energy system with hydropower and solar energy as the main body.The use of green energy has been replacing fossil energy and biomass energy, establishing a long-term mechanism and material basis conducive to ecological and environmental protection.

The state council information office has issued a white paper on ecological progress on the qinghai-tibet plateau, declaring that the overall ecological environment of the plateau is good and that it is one of the cleanest places on earth.

2. Biodiversity treasure trove

As one of the regions with the richest biodiversity in China and even in the world, the qinghai-tibet plateau has 38 species of Tibetan antelope and wild yak under the state protection, accounting for 36.7 percent of the country's first-class protected animals.

There are 85 species of wild sheep and swertia, accounting for 46 percent of the second-class protected animals in China.In addition, there are also unique rare species such as cordyceps sinensis and rhodiola rosea, which are listed as key biodiversity conservation areas by WWF.

"Unfortunately, since the 1960s, China has been one of the most severely damaged countries for rare wildlife.""Poaching of Tibetan antelopes on the Tibetan plateau used to be very serious," said rob, who has worked in the public security department of shuanghu county in Tibet for many years.The qinghai-tibet plateau, home to nearly one million Tibetan antelopes, was on the verge of extinction."

in order to curb the hunting atrocities, under the leadership of the party committees and governments at all levels of organizations, public security, forestry, environmental protection system and the armed police unit such as Tibet, qinghai forest team, for many years to carry out a series of military action and armed deter illegal poaching strong-arm reaction,

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