The Wetland Resources in China and the Conservation Advices

According to the first National Wetlands Inventory, there was rich wetland resources in China in and the total area of wetland was up to 3 848.55 km 2. There were 724 species of wetland vertebrate animal belonging to 75 families, 25 orders, and 2 276 species of wild advanced plant belonging to 815 genera, 225 families in wetlands. The wetland vegetation was divided into 7 groups of vegetation type including 16 vegetation types,180 formations。At present, the wetlands in China were subjected to some serious threats such as reclamation, environmental pollution and over-exploitation of natural resources. All the threats had resulted in the continuous degradation, even loss of wetlands in China. The requirement of local ecological balance was hard to maintain. Facing to the problems mentioned above, conservation strategy of wetland and the National Wetland Conservation Planning should be implemented, and the wetland legislation and establishment of institution of wetland conservation should be enhanced as soon as possible.