China seeks to build world's largest national park system

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Across plateaus, mountains, and rainforests, wildlife is rebounding in China as the country strives to establish the world's largest national park system by 2035.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 In 2021, China established its first batch of national parks spanning a protected land

00:06 area of 230,000 square kilometers.

00:10 These parks, namely Sanjiangyuan National Park, the Giant Panda National Park, the Northeast

00:15 China Tiger and Leopard National Park, Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, and Wuyishan

00:21 National Park, are home to nearly 30% of the country's key terrestrial wildlife species.

00:27 The progress these national parks have made in protecting biodiversity is evident when

00:32 considering the numbers involved.

00:34 Situated in Northeast China's Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, the Northeast China

00:39 Tiger and Leopard National Park has seen an increasing population of Siberian tigers and

00:44 more leopards in recent years.

00:56 Also known as the Amur tiger, the Siberian tiger is one of the world's most endangered

01:01 animals and a flagship species of the forest ecosystem, mainly living in Russia's Far

01:06 East and Northeast China.

01:09 About 500 Siberian tigers are believed to exist in the wild today.

01:14 Officially established in 2021, the park is now home to around 70 wild Siberian tigers

01:20 and about 80 wild Amur leopards.

01:23 Leopards of other species in the park are also on the rise.

01:50 To better protect the wildlife species and their habitats, China also designated 49 candidate

01:56 areas covering around 1.1 million square kilometers as national park space according to a spatial

02:02 layout plan made public in 2022.

02:06 Over the years, Qiangchang Nature Reserve in southwest China's Shizhong Autonomous

02:10 Region, one of the candidate areas, has been ramping up efforts to improve its ecological

02:15 protection measures and strategies.

02:17 At an average altitude of over 4,500 meters, wildlife rangers in this nature reserve brave

02:24 thin air and blizzards to patrol protected areas and monitor wildlife.

02:29 To their delight, the number of wild animals, such as Tibetan antelopes and yaks, has increased

02:34 significantly in this region.

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