Mangrove Is Still Damaged by Growing Fish Farms and Insect Pests

"Now you see the mangroves compared to the 1980s, when increased, but there is still a certain gap from the 1950s heyday of" Xu Fanghong said.

According to reports, Zhanjiang Mangrove Nature Reserve built in December 1990, upgraded to a national nature reserve in 1997 to protect a total area of ​​20,278.8 hectares, which the mangroves area of ​​9200 hectares, accounting for 33% of the country, 79 percent of Guangdong Province, China's largest protected area is the main object of protection of mangroves, mainland China largest and most types of distribution is most concentrated, most complete ecosystem, the most biologically diverse mangrove.

However, the history of the mangroves have been severely damaged. Zhanjiang mangrove destruction in the 1980s by the most serious area of ​​at least about 5000 hectares. "To Xu Fanghong introduced the Road, since the early days of liberation," iron and steel ", a large number of mangroves have been cut down, and the the Guangdong" two water wood "vigorously cultivation of fish and shrimp farms, also contributed to the destruction of the mangroves," those years often typhoon to time, the coastal levee is necessary to repair once, the mangrove areas even if the repair of reinforced concrete levee destruction out. "

In the 1990s, the importance of the mangroves is more and more clearly aware of Zhanjiang Mangrove began to recover after 2000, has been restored to more than 7000 hectares, and has been a 5% annual rate of increase has been restored to the 9200 hectares.

Zhanjiang Guangdong mangrove microcosm. Dr. Du Yaodong, chief expert of the Guangdong Meteorological Bureau said that in the 1990s compared to the 1950s, climate change, particularly long-term vandalism to make Guangdong mangrove area is reduced by more than 64%. People began to remedy the situation, but most of the existing mangrove secondary forest, tall virgin forest rarely, some mangroves, such as Hainan, Sonneratia Hung Lam Li, silver Stella and other...