Forest ecology improvement in Siming Mountain achieving initial success

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Wednesday, 26 December 2012 20:35

Over the past six months, 17 cases of deforestation in the Siming Mountain area have been investigated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Forest Law in Fenghua County and Yuyao County.

As the biggest "green lung" in the east of Zhejiang Province and the source of the "three rivers" and the tap water source area, Siming Mountain serves as an important green barrier. However, with the blind and disorderly development of plant production, the forest resources of the mountain area have been seriously destroyed and the eco-environment is deteriorating. To address this problem, Ningbo Municipal Forestry Bureau has launched the special campaign of protecting the forest ecology in Siming Mountain from May 2012 to April 2013.

With the guidelines of focusing on the source, strengthening publicity and implementing strict combat, the campaign is to curb such illegal acts as deforestation and destruction of forest resources in the development-forbidding areas. The over-cutting, deforestation, and destruction by illegal contracting and leasing of plant production and other industrial crops in the public eco-forests, closing-off forest areas and scenic areas will be promptly investigated and severely punished in accordance with laws and regulations.

The forestry departments request the related governments of all levels to attach importance to the restoration of the eco-environment of the mountain area by returning farmlands to forests. In the meanwhile, they should help the mountain residents to optimize and adjust the industrial structure, and encourage the development of such special forest industries as brand dried fruits and such ecologically efficient agriculture as forest tourism and sightseeing farming, to realize the gradual restoration of the eco-environment of Siming Mountain area.