CBCGDF representative attended the Conference on Friendly Development in Protected Areas and their Surroundings to discuss CCAfa and SDGs
2018/12/7 18:47:00 本站

On the morning of December 6, the CBCGDF representative was invited to participate in the Conference on Friendly Development in Protected Areas and their Surroundings held at Guizhou Normal University (Guiyang). The seminar aims to support and participate in ecological protection by conducting academic seminars, experience exchange, and practical demonstrations to promote the integration of ecosystem service values into the market economy and benefit communities around protected areas from conservation. The seminar summarizes the practical experience and development model of economic development that is friendly to nature and publish an initiative to promote friendly development around protected areas. The CBCGDF representative spoke at “The Present and Future of a Friendly Economy Around Protected Areas”.

 

CBCGDF’s representative presented “CCAfas and the UN SDGs” and introduced the following points:

 

1. Introduction to China Conservation Areas (CCAfa)

 

2. CCAfa and Protected Areas Friendly System

 

3. CCAfa and SDGs

 

4. The outlook of CCAfa

 

The CBCGDF representative represented three species, namely, Sand martin, Relic Gull and Great Bustard. Through the problems of habitat destruction and illegal poaching, they reflect the current status and urgency of biodiversity conservation in China. Although China's existing protection mechanism, the national nature reserves (NNRs), has played a huge role in ecological protection, at the same time there are problems in the contradiction between protection and development. Moreover, in the absence of ecological compensation system, natural protection is everywhere. The development of the NNRs has been slow, and some borders of protected areas have been greatly adjusted to reduce the total scale, and even a few places have cancelled the protected areas.

 

According to President Xi’s important instructions on biodiversity conservation, the CBCGDF combines the requirements of the Central Committee for the innovation of the National Society, the initiative to undertake government-related functions transfer, and more than 30 years of accumulated work experience and the advantages of being a social organization. On April 15, 2016, the CBCGDF innovatively proposed a unique biodiversity protection system - "China Conservation Area (CCAfa)".

 

CCAfa refers to the protection and support of volunteers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local communities to protect biodiversity, natural environment, natural resources and humanities, with the actions from the people as the core and where the protection of the natural resources being urgently needed as the primary location, in order to implement specific in-situ protection. It is also a platform for sharing the protection stories and experiences of the people and society. It promotes the mutual assistance and the exchange and sharing of protection forces of the whole society.

 

CCAfa can effectively complement for the current shortage and vacancy of local civil protection forces, and form a set of fast, convenient and effective protection mechanisms. At the same time, it effectively integrates into the existing and mature nature reserve system.

 

On April 18th, 2016, CBCGDF established the first CCAfa - "China Conservation Area for Great Bustard at Changyuan". Through many letters, CBCGDF coordinates the local government to jointly promote the protection of the Great Bustards, raise and provide financial support, produce publicity materials, organize household promotion, effectively gathered the strength and power of the local volunteers, and fully promoted the " Great Bustard anti-poaching action." Since the establishment of the first CCAfa, CBCGDF has started to build over 100 CCAfas. The system covers more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions such as Tibet, Xinjiang, Henan, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Hainan, Zhejiang, Liaoning, and Jiangxi. The protection objects include starry sky, ancient tree, ancient cultural relics, desert wetlands, and endangered species, such as Acer pantephyllum, Przewalski's Gazelle, Baiji Dolphin, Great Bustard, Pangolin, etc.

 

The CCAfa has played or is playing an important role in protecting precious natural and human resources, and the power of this role will inevitably strengthen in the future.

 

Among the more than 100 CCAfas established by the CBCGDF:

 

Natural ecosystems: desert wetlands, forests, grasslands, wetlands, coastal wetlands

 

Biodiversity conservation: Great Bustards, Coral, Yili Pika, Relic Gull, White Dolphin, Przewalski's gazelle, Finless porpoise, pangolin, spotted seal, Acer pentephyllum... Nearly 50 species of plants and animals.

 

However, only the tip of the iceberg in the ecosystem has been protected. Poaching, trading, poisoning, setting up bird nets, deforestation, reclamation, and deliberate sewage disposal are still happening. In order to curb the loss of biodiversity, and to protect the environment, we still need to work hard. CBCGDF hopes that every CCAfa can protect the adjacent ecosystem. The natural environment is the foundation of human survival!

 

In 2019, CBCGDF will continue to promote the establishment of CCAfa, strive to expand 30 more CCAfa sites, and strive to build the CCAfa network within provinces, and actively prepare for the 2019 CCAfa Annual Meeting.

 

We will also explore in depth the sustainable operation of the CCAfa sites, strengthen the linkage and cooperation within the system, and expand the volunteer. CBCGDF calls for more people to pay attention to biodiversity conservation and join the volunteers in the CCAfa!






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The CBCGDF CCAfa sites distribution in November 2018


(Photo credit: CBCGDF)


Original Chinese article:

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By / Shuya