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    Endangered lists enjoy healthy rises in numbers

    By Yang Yao | China Daily | Updated: 2013-05-22 03:21

    Huge investment in new nature reserves starts to pay dividends

    The population of China's endangered animals, including giant pandas and Siberian tigers, is on the rise thanks to billions of yuan in investment, a top official from China's wildlife watchdog said on Tuesday.

    Endangered lists enjoy healthy rises in numbers

    A Chinese alligator is put into a crate before being released at a local nature protection area on April 15 in Changxing county, Zhejiang province. A total of 120 Chinese alligators have been returned to the wild. Xu Yu / Xinhua News Agency

    "The declining trend has been reversed," said Yin Hong, deputy director of the State Forestry Administration.

    The latest wildlife census shows the number of wild Siberian tigers has risen from 12 to 16 in 2000 to 18 to 22, while just seven crested ibis were found in 1981, compared to the more than 1,700 that now live in the wild and in captivity.

    "One reason for the increase is the growing area of natural reserves," Yin said. "Now 85 percent of protected wildlife lives in 2,150 nature reserves, taking up 13 percent of land in China.

    Fan Zhiyong at the World Wide Fund for Nature said the increase in Siberian tigers is due to the fact their habitats are better preserved and their stocks of prey have recovered.

    "The tigers have been recorded more frequently by the WWF and forestry bureau workers," Fan said. "At one forest farm in Jilin province, the wildlife watchdog captured photographs and videos of the tigers more than 20 times, three times more than the past three years."

    In general, Yin added that the turnaround is also thanks to the wildlife monitoring and prevention system built to control diseases.

    She said there are now 350 national, 768 provincial and a great number of county monitoring stations, as well as nearly 10,000 monitoring points and patrol routes. "These monitoring points and patrol routes effectively monitored migrant birds during the H7N9 epidemic, checking for the virus," she said.

    Conservation efforts, however, can easily be undermined by habitat destruction, illegal poaching and consumption of wild animals, Yin said.

    For many years, NGOs, campaigners and media have accused corporations of being a major source of environmental problems, affecting wildlife habitats.

    The Wetland Protection Regulation, which took effect on May 1, forbids mining or polluting activities by corporations in nature reserves, to better protect endangered species.

    "Wildlife trade escalates into a crisis when an increasing proportion is illegal and unsustainable," said Yan Xun, chief engineer of wildlife conservation for the State Forestry Administration. "Illegal trade is directly threatening the survival of many species in the wild."

    Illegal wildlife trade such as poaching elephants for ivory and rhinos for their horns have been criticized for causing animal numbers in Africa to drop.

    Besides these well-known examples, Yan said, countless other species are similarly overexploited, from marine turtles to timber trees. "This demands stronger law enforcement," he said.

    Last year, more than 10,000 wildlife crime cases were investigated in China.

    For international wildlife crimes like illegal ivory trading, Yan urged a global joint effort.

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