Nanshan National Park included in IUCN Green List
2024-10-12
The IUCN Green List is the world’s first best practice standard for protected areas. It aims to maintain the protective effect of nature reserves, achieve biodiversity conservation, and ensure sustainable development of humans and nature.
The Nanshan National Park is one of the first 10 national park system pilot areas in China and one of the 49 national parks included in the National Park Spatial Layout Plan. It is located in the southwest of Hunan Province, at the intersection of the west section of the Nanling Mountains and the south section of the Xuefeng Mountain. It is the birthplace of the Dongting Lake water system in the Yangtze River basin and the important mainstream of the Xijiang River water system in the Pearl River basin, with a total area of 1303.80 square kilometers.
It has a typical mid-subtropical forest ecosystem, a spectacular Danxia landform, a hilly and mountainous terrain, and fine traditional Chinese culture and Red Long March culture. There are endangered wild animals like forest musk deer, Chinese mergansers, and yellow-bellied tragopans, and rare plants and communities such as fir and taxus chinensis.
In recent years, the Nanshan National Park Management Bureau has established a unified and efficient management system and financial guarantee mechanism, and made continuous innovation in ecological protection and restoration, rare and endangered species protection, scientific research and monitoring, natural resource asset management, and community co-construction and co-management. It has achieved good protection results, improving people’s livelihood while protecting ecological environment.
Chinese source: official WeChat account of Hunan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism
