On May 8, 2024, the launch meeting of the national forest, grassland, and wetland desertification census was held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the National Forest and Grassland Administration. The new desertification investigation added to this census is an innovation following the national investigation and monitoring of forests, grasslands, and wetlands in 2023. It is also a recognition of the importance of forests, grasslands, wetlands, and deserts as components of natural resources.
By carrying out a forest, grassland, wetland and desertification census, it is helpful to accurately understand our country’s forest, grassland, wetland and desert resources and their ecological status, and to objectively evaluate the effectiveness of past ecological protection and restoration, thereby strengthening the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand, and improving national ecological environment.
The Legal Working Committee of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), as a public welfare organization that has long been committed to protecting the ecological environment and biodiversity, hereby calls on everyone to protect forests, grasslands, wetlands and deserts.
For the following illegal destruction of forests, grasslands, wetlands and deserts, CBCGDF welcomes you to provide clues and report to us
1. Illegal logging and indiscriminate logging.
2. Illegally purchasing, processing, and transporting trees that are known to be from illegal logging, indiscriminate logging, and other illegal sources.
3. Illegal reclamation, quarrying, sand mining, soil mining or other activities, causing forest damage.
4. Illegal cutting of firewood, destruction of seedlings, and grazing in young forest lands caused forest damage.
5. Discharge sewage and sludge with excessive levels of heavy metals or other toxic and hazardous substances into forestry, grassland, wetland or desert, as well as dredging sediment, tailings, slag, etc. that may cause forestland pollution.
6.Changing the use of forest land without approval from the forestry department of the government at or above the county level or occupying forest land without going through the approval procedures for construction land.
7. Illegal reclamation of grassland.
8. Excavating plants or engaging in other activities that destroy grassland vegetation on grasslands in deserts, semi-deserts, severely degraded, desertified, salinized, rocky desertification, soil erosion, and grasslands in ecologically fragile areas.
9. Carrying out soil mining, sand mining, quarrying and other activities on the grassland without approval or not in accordance with the prescribed time, area and mining method.
10. Illegal destruction of grassland vegetation by driving vehicles and other behaviors.
11. Illegal construction of permanent buildings and structures on temporarily occupied forestland, grassland, and wetland.
12. Construction projects illegally occupy nationally important wetlands.
13. Construction projects illegally occupy important wetlands and fail to restore and reconstruct wetlands in accordance with the provisions of this law.
14. Illegal reclamation, filling or draining of natural wetlands or permanent cutoff of natural wetland water sources.
15. Digging ponds in mangrove wetlands or illegally placing or planting species in mangrove wetlands that hinder the growth of mangroves.
16. Illegal mining of peat or drainage from peat bog wetlands.
17. Failure to prepare a restoration plan to repair the wetland or failure to repair the wetland in accordance with the restoration plan, causing damage to the wetland.
18. Engaging in vegetation-destroying activities within the closed protection zone of desertified land.
19. The holders of state-owned land use rights and farmers’ collective land contract management rights have failed to take measures to prevent and control desertification, resulting in serious desertification of land or state-owned land.
20. Illegal reclamation of cultivated land in desert edge areas, woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands.
21. Illegal introduction or release of alien invasive species into forests, grasslands, wetlands or deserts.:
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