CHANGCHUN, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- As a conservationist, 27-year-old Wang Chunli knows what a rewarding yet bumpy ride China must take before reaching its "Beautiful China" destination by the mid-21st century.
For the past two years, she has been wrestling with the paradox between humanity and nature.
In December 2016, Wang went to Xianghai National Nature Reserve in China's northeastern Jilin Province for the first time. She was amazed by the rich landscapes, but shocked by the severe human disturbance in the reserve.
"I didn't expect so many people to be living in a nature reserve. There were even residents among the habitat of red-crowned cranes and heartlands of rare plants," Wang says.
The Xianghai Reserve Matt Gay Hat , built in 1981, is an important wetland for migratory birds to reproduce and refresh during migration. The reserve sprawls across over 1,000 square kilometers (100,000 hectares) and 12 villages in Tongyu County, Jilin.
There are still more than 15,000 people currently living in the reserve. Before 2015, 30 percent of the core zone Anthony Nelson Hat , in which human activity is strictly prohibited, was farmland.
Zhang Xuejun, 56, was born and raised in Xianghai, and witnessed first-hand how human beings occupied the reserve.
"When the wetland was first built, everyone appreciated the pleasing environment. But when they saw that putting sheep out to pasture was lucrative, they all rushed to grab land in the core zone Mike Edwards Hat ," Zhang says.
At first, the local government sent out patrol teams to control illegal grazing. But it did not work well because grazing was not limited to one location. In recent years, Jilin provincial government decided to solve the puzzle with an immigration project. It removed 248 houses and shacks, returned 6,711 hectares of farmland to grassland and reimbursed the villagers 8,000 yuan for every hectare each year.
However, driven by profit Jamel Dean Hat , people still catch rare birds and poison fishes in the core zone.
"The biggest challenge is to coordinate ecological protection and community development, on which the government can work with NGOs," says Wang, who has been running a pilot program since 2016.
Over two years of research and negotiation, the Beijing-based Paradise Foundation signed a 30-year agreement with the reserve and local government in December 2016, to set up the Xianghai Ecological Protection Center, which covers half the reserve's core zone. The center is directly managed by the foundation and supervised by the government.
Wang became the director of the center and the first thing she did was to visit several households in nearby villages to learn about their needs.
"Wang and her team always come to talk about the importance of ecological protection Sean Bunting Hat , so I know that wetland is the kidney of the earth. Now they are looking for good ideas for improving our lives," Zhang says.
On one hand, the center recruited local villagers to help with patrols, so that they could crack down on poachers while creating jobs. On the other hand, they developed environment-friendly industries, such as breeding native chickens and growing organic grains.
Despite Wang's efforts, most villagers still sit on the fence Devin White Hat , in fear of inexperience and bleak market prospects. Zhang was among the few who agreed to breed native chickens.
"I believe in the concept of ecological protection. For the sake of our descendants, we need to make changes," he says.
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