In the afternoon of February 4, the CBCGDF Research Department received a report from Guangzhou environmental protection volunteers that Baiyunshan Resort in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, planned to cut down 166 large trees and relocate 35 trees in Mingzhulou (Bright Pearl) Scenic Area for tea tree planting and renovation projects. Trees included 58 large Ficus Virens (17-48cm in diameter), 16 rubber figs (15-40cm in diameter), 4 privets (10-11cm in diameter), 2 Ficus cyrtophylla (Wall. ex Miq.) Miq. (16-26cm in diameter), 2 litsea pungens Hemsl (20-25cm in diameter), 11 plants of Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers. (18-25cm in diameter), 7 plants of Bauhinia (16-30cm in diameter), 4 plants of Schefflera octophylla (Lour.) Harms (14-17cm in diameter), 6 plants of Microcos paniculata Linn (Bupleurum tenue) (10-17cm in diameter), 20 other trees (15-21cm in diameter).
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“Baiyun Mountain is the lung of Guangzhou. It is an excellent ecological area that all citizens love and care for. It should be protected and the landscape must not be built at the cost of cutting down trees,” said the volunteer. “In addition, for such an obvious big "Great Leap forward-style" landscaping, why did the Bureau of Forestry and Landscaping of Guangzhou 'blindly approve' such a logging application? Have they taken a beautiful forest ecology into even the initial consideration?" The volunteer was puzzled.
It’s worth noting that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently answered reporters’ questions on “Opinions on Strengthening Ecological Protection and Supervision”. The person in charge just mentioned, “The foundation of our country’s ecological environment is fragile, and incidents of ecological damage still occur from time to time.” ‘Great Leap Forward-style’ landscaping, protection and restoration in violation of laws and other "ecological formalism" exist to varying degrees. And what is the ‘Great Leap Forward-style’ landscaping? Simply put, disrespct of the whole situation while mapping out landscapes is essentially ecological formalism.”
So, isn’t it a typical "great leap forward-style" landscaping for the purpose of building tea gardens and cutting down the trees originally used for ecological services? Or is it just to increase economic income? The CBCGDF Research Department hopes competent authorities will see this issue and give a reply.
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Compile/Talina Review /volunteer Edit/angel Translate/Claire Liang
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