If you were to be asked, you would like to name a festival that has environmental protection and ecological maintenance as its content, World Environment Day, World Water Day, and almost all of them can be covered.
But if I ask you what day it is today, the premise is that no matter what year it is, casually, it is estimated that 99% of people will answer the festivals related to the lunar calendar, Laba Festival, Xiao Nian, anyway, in the north and south, in the month of La, the festivals set every day are 23 in the north and 24 in the south.
February 2nd, which has nothing to do with the lunar calendar and is fixed every year, is"World Wetlands Day"。I believe most people don't know.
In fact, the year it was just established, I thought that this day, in our place, was born at the wrong time, and it was a mistake.
The date of the Spring Festival hovers between January 20 and February 19, and this February 2, no matter which year is around the Spring Festival, can only be diluted in the atmosphere of the traditional Chinese New Year, and is ignored by people.
The embarrassment of this day, sometimes, it is in the Chinese New Year's Eve, the sound of firecrackers. Sometimes it's the fifth or seventh day of the Lunar New Year, as you can imagine. Sometimes it's out of waiting for the countdown to the Chinese New Year, when people are busy welcoming a certain zodiac year.
Fortunately, the word wetland has entered the public, just like the Beijing Hutong aunts knew about visibility 20 years ago, and people probably knew that it was not the water surface, swamps, and the favorite places of birds.
Unfortunately, this recognition is not the credit of World Wetlands Day, but other environmental and ecological anniversaries.
Hey, World Wetlands Day is too non-existent in China. It's the first holiday of the year, January and February, which is just a statistical year, but it's a psychological year.
How many ecological-related festivals do you know?
According to the quarterly collection, China Arbor Day (March 12), World Forest Day (March 21), World Water Day (March 22), World Meteorological Day (March 23).
Earth Day (April 22), Bird Week across the country, the week of mid-April.
National Day for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (12 May), World No Tobacco Day (31 May), International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May), International Day for Biological Diversity, World Environment Day (5 June), World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, Land Day in China (25 June).
International Day for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, (16 September).
International Day for Disaster Reduction, (13 October), International Animal Day (4 October).
Why do some festivals feel familiar, but others don't know it?
When these festivals were first established, they basically came from the initiative of a certain country at an international conference, and China's recognition was one thing, and whether there was a corresponding department was the key.
For example, World Earth Day, at first glance, sounds like a festival of good cows, and the earliest origin is the creativity of two young people in the United States. But it was introduced to China in 2000 by Ms. Liao Xiaoyi of Global Village, a well-known environmental organization at the time.
For three or five consecutive years, they have carried out publicity and promotion activities in a park and green space in Beijing--- which is an era of youth and vigorous--- and it is not too much to imagine that the participants use the word success or failure. I remember that in Chaoyang Park, the heads of international organizations, embassies and consulates, and foreign companies in Beijing all came.
On this holiday, the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources took it as an occasion for the department's commemorative event, and the concepts of the earth, the mantle and the earth's crust, minerals and rocks, and geological disasters were naturally combined. Later, with the change of departments, no one recognized the current Ministry of Land and Resources, so Earth Day was completely forgotten.
In stark contrast to this, it is World Environment Day, on the one hand, with the Environmental Protection Bureau, to the State Environmental Protection Administration, to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and the Ministry of Health and Environmental Protection, it is well deserved.
The world is always changing. Originally, the earliest highly related person of ecology and environment was the State Forestry Administration, but for well-known reasons, the name has changed and the functions have been divided and transformed, and these festivals are actually closely related to it, but they have been snatched away by other departments, some have found new owners, and some have gradually been forgotten.
It's just that before a certain date, the news ** appears sporadically, and an organization takes advantage of the commemoration of the holiday, and most of the department becomes a graft of commercial activities. For example, World Animal Day originally came from the people, which is equivalent to returning to the people, and has become the reason for the hype of pet hospitals and the gathering of cat and dog lovers.
National Wetlands Day, once the most important initiative of the State Forestry Administration, is held on February 1 to hold a press conference to talk about wetland achievements.
Originally, the Forestry Administration had a special wetland management department, and there were also a number of international and national offices to connect with international and national wetland systems.
Do you think, if February 2 happens to be the Spring Festival, what can we do? I had to disappear without a trace.
In fact, the first heads of environmental NGOs in China were all women, and I have no prejudices, nor is it a deviation in cognitive understanding, which is really very significant.
Women are natural, with children, with forests, with animals, natural harmony, obsession from the heart. Women are not very utilitarian genders, although they have a material and money-worshipping side, but it does not affect their poetic cognition of the world, compassion for the world, the pursuit of harmonious coexistence between man and the earth, and the strong indignation of non-environmental behaviors.
Among them, I was most impressed by Wang Yongchen, the convener of the Green Home Environmental Protection Supporters' Organization, and Ms. Ren Zengying of Linlan Environmental Protection Commune.
The former, has been insisting on 52 weekends in Beijing Leshui, walking along a river for half a day--- Beijing water system is very rich, a year can not be completed, and there is no repetition. At the same time, she also led a youth environmental protection project in Yongquanzhuang, the hometown of her ancestors in Wei County, Hebei Province.
The latter, from the propaganda and education of the finless porpoise, a second-class protected animal, in Hunan, to the protection of the coastal intertidal zone in Dalian. Unswerving, determined to protect the environment, straight from youthful hair to sideburns and gray hair.
In the past three years, Ren Zengying has not only mobilized teachers, students and parents in primary and secondary schools to understand the crisis awareness of oyster reefs for rescue protection, but also led the team to raise funds to initiate a survey on the environmental protection status of the offshore case. It's really admirable.
Those who know me ask me what worries, and those who don't know me ask me what I want. They are diligently pursuing the cause of environmental protection, and they are even more valuable in the special environment in recent years.
I can't do it anyway.
Ms. Ren Zengying, "Suggestions for the Rescue Protection of Coastal Intertidal Oyster Reefs in the Area under the Jurisdiction of Dalian Binhai National Geopark".
Oyster reefs are an important coastal habitat that can bring multiple ecological benefits. However, in the past 100 years, 85% of oyster reef habitats have been degraded and lost globally due to overfishing, water pollution, coastal development and disease, and oyster reefs are among the most degraded marine habitats in the world.
Oysters play an important role in the economies of various regions of the globe as a favorite food for coastal residents, tourists and global markets. Oyster reefs around the world are at risk of degradation due to a long-standing lack of awareness and severe human impacts on coastal habitats.
Dalian's once-proud "oyster flavor" is now facing a new challenge. Because oyster habitats are facing a new round of destruction. Especially after May 2023, the situation is getting worse.
The following text is excerpted from the ** report, "Since late May, the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, together with the Municipal Marine Development Bureau, has carried out special supervision and inspection of 21 fishing ports in the city, and found that some fishing ports have incomplete environmental impact assessment procedures, non-standard construction of hazardous waste warehouses, expired degreasers and other 29 problems, and the supervision group requires the fishing port operators to rectify within a time limit.
In the past few days, the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment has drafted and issued in the name of the headquarters office the "Notice on Printing and Distributing the Work Plan of the Ecological Environment Rectification Group for Comprehensively Carrying Out the Illegal Occupation of Sea Areas, Tidal Flats and Coastlines in Dalian City", and the "Notice on the Establishment of a Special Working Group for the Cleanup and Rectification of the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau for the Illegal Occupation of Sea Areas, Tidal Flats and Coastlines in Dalian City", and held a meeting on the deployment of the ecological environment rectification work and deployed the work related to cleaning up and rectifying the ecological environment. ”
The relevant official departments of Dalian began to comprehensively clean up and rectify the ecological environment of illegal occupation of sea areas, tidal flats, and coastlines, which can help more Dalian citizens to be close to the sea and the beautiful natural environment, and can promote the development of the cultural and tourism industry.
Another reality is that more oyster reefs in the open waters are on the verge of extinction, and have been subject to round-the-clock extermination harvesting throughout the month of June. Some of these fishing areas are located in the three types of natural parks of the national nature reserve system: for example, the southern coast of the Dalian Binhai National Geopark.
Therefore, it is advisable to:
1. Strengthen the popularization and promotion of relevant knowledge of nature reserves by relevant departments, and do more publicity on the importance of nature reserve protection based in Dalian. The establishment of a nature reserve system with national parks as the main body is a major measure to implement the idea of ecological civilization and a major reform task proposed by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Nature reserves are the core carrier of ecological construction, the precious wealth of the Chinese nation, and an important symbol of beautiful China, and occupy the primary position in maintaining national ecological security.
2. Strengthen the construction of nature reserves in Dalian, focusing on natural restoration, supplemented by necessary artificial measures, and carrying out restoration of damaged natural ecosystems by zoning and classification. Dalian Binhai National Geopark is located in the southernmost part of the Liaodong Peninsula and the southeast coastal zone of Dalian City. As an important task of the national nature reserve system, it is to protect important natural ecosystems, natural relics and natural landscapes, areas with ecological, ornamental, cultural and scientific value, and sustainable use. Ensure that precious natural resources such as forests, oceans, wetlands, waters, glaciers, grasslands, and living organisms, as well as the landscape, geological and cultural diversity they carry, are effectively protected. Including forest parks, geological parks, marine parks, wetland parks and other natural parks.
Relevant law enforcement departments should realize the dynamic management of important marine habitats, key nature reserves, and key marine species, and comprehensively enhance citizens' awareness of marine ecological civilization.
3. Strengthening the popularization of the concept of "Chinese-style modernization" to citizens and building a community with a shared future for mankind requires everyone's participation. "Chinese-style modernization" adheres to the path of ecological priority and green development, and is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. **Incorporate the construction of ecological civilization into the overall layout of socialism with Chinese characteristics, emphasize the need to provide more high-quality ecological products to meet the people's growing needs for a beautiful ecological environment, and promote a new pattern of harmonious development and modernization between form and nature.
* At the publicity level, we will carry out mass discussion activities and implement "Beautiful China, I am an actor" into the propaganda and education of communities and schools.
Fourth, the current situation of the coastal intertidal zone in the coastal area of Dalian should be verified as soon as possible, and the treatment should be discriminatory, instead of "one size fits all" and enter another state of extensive management. Relevant departments need to combine the deployment of the "Guiding Opinions on the Establishment of a Natural Protected Area System with National Parks as the Main Body" of the General Office of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the Communist Party of China to reorganize the natural ecological elements such as coastal wetlands in the national nature reserve system of Dalian City and find out the bottom line.
5. In conjunction with the national marine ecological redline system, strictly manage and protect the coastal intertidal zone of the nature reserve system involving sea areas. As an important national marine strategic initiative, the marine ecological redline system is of great significance to the healthy development of China's economy and ecology. In order to ensure that a series of provisions on marine ecological protection and restoration proposed in the marine ecological redline system can be implemented and truly play its normative role, it is necessary to have mandatory force to ensure it.
6. Dalian's marine scientific research strength needs to further study the ecological restoration and protection of oyster reefs under the nature reserve system. There are many universities and scientific research institutions in Dalian, and oyster reefs can not only become a sink of atmospheric carbon, but also improve the carbon sink function of salt marsh vegetation, seaweed, marine animals and other organisms. For the study of marine biodiversity and marine carbon sequestration within the jurisdiction of Dalian Binhai National Geopark, it is necessary to combine more unique oyster reef groups with local oyster reefs, so as to better provide an effective scientific basis for the construction of Dalian as a strong marine city.
In summary: In view of the current trend of global warming, China has put forward the "dual carbon" goal, which reflects China's responsibility as a major country to take the initiative to shoulder the responsibility of responding to global climate change. The ocean has an important role to play in achieving carbon neutrality. As a typical ecosystem in the global coastal zone, oyster reefs have huge carbon storage and strong carbon sequestration capacity. Oyster reefs release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during biocalcification, respiration, etc., but can bury large amounts of carbon in biosynthesis, sedimentation, etc.
In the future, Dalian should carry out research on the assessment technology of the carbon sink function of oyster reefs in the coastal intertidal zone as soon as possible, form oyster reef protection and restoration technologies for the purpose of improving the carbon sink of oyster reefs, and improve the carbon sink capacity of marine ecosystems.
At present, the rescue protection of coastal intertidal oyster reefs in the area under the jurisdiction of Dalian Binhai National Geopark within the national nature reserve system is one of the prerequisites for scientific research and achieving the goal of "carbon neutrality and carbon peaking".
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Shellfish reefs, formed by bivalve molluscs such as oysters or mussels, are a typical type of coastal habitat, and they are widely distributed in bays, estuaries, and lagoons in temperate and **zone regions of the world. Shellfish reefs include oyster reefs or mussel reef beds in the intertidal or subtidal zone.
Oyster reefs are also known as "temperate coral reefs" because of their important ecosystem services such as purifying water, removing nutrients from water bodies, and protecting coastal zones, as well as providing habitat for the seedlings of many fish, shrimp, crab and other fishery species.
Features of Oyster Reef:
1. Purify the water body and remove the nutrients in the water body.
Oysters, as filter-feeding bivalves, feed mainly on phytoplankton in water bodies. Its filter feeding activity absorbs microalgae and suspended particles in the water body into the body, and the digestible part is metabolically absorbed and converted into its own tissue, and the metabolic waste is excreted to the seabed, while the indigestible and absorbed substances and particles are discharged and deposited in the form of fake feces. This series of processes cleans up suspended particulates and excess nutrients in the water body, and improves the clarity of the water body. The organic matter deposited on the seafloor also stimulates the benthic bacterial community to convert nitrate from the sediment into inert nitrogen through denitrification, thereby further removing nitrogenous organic matter from the water column.
2. Improve biodiversity.
The three-dimensional structure provided by oyster reefs also provides habitat for other organisms, such as attachment points for sessile animals and gaps for small fish, shrimp, crabs and other animals to hide from predators. This, combined with the abundance of food from particulate sediments**, makes Oyster Reef an ideal home for a wide variety of juvenile fish, crustaceans and other creatures. Studies have shown that the number and abundance of species found on oyster reefs often far exceed the surrounding soft sediment environment (Grabowski and Peterson 2007;Zu Ermgassen et al., 2016).
3. Fishery multiplication.
Oyster reefs can lead to an increase in fishery resources due to their habitat benefits. Taking the Gulf of Mexico region as an example, according to the study of Zu Ermgassen et al. (2015), it is estimated that the annual production of fish and crustaceans per square meter of oyster reef can increase by about 397 g per square meter compared with the tidal flats without reefs, and the important fishery economic species in the region such as brown shrimp, litopenaeus vannamei, stone crab and sheep's head sea bream are the main species.
4. Coastal zone protection.
Oyster reefs can also act as natural coastal protection, reducing wave energy, shoreline erosion, and to some extent against storm-induced flooding (Piazza et al., 2005). Its beach protection and siltation promotion effect also provides suitable conditions for the growth of salt marsh wetlands. In addition, oyster reefs will grow and multiply upwards as sea levels rise, effectively enhancing the resilience of coastlines in response to climate change.
5. Socio-economic value.
Oyster reef ecosystem services can provide many socio-economic benefits, such as coastal communities benefiting from improved water quality and protection against shoreline erosion, while sea anglers benefit from fish population proliferation and the reef itself to fish stocks. At the same time, there are economic benefits by increasing the consumption of sea fishing, promoting the growth of recreational and commercial fisheries, and reducing excess nutrients in seawater.
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