Final Report - Asian Development Bank

TA 4721-PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project
Final Report Appendix 5
nature reserves of the west of Qinling Mountains. This can compromise fauna conservation in terms
of genetic diversity in the Qinling Mountains.
4. Although the Qinling area has already established 27 nature reserves, every nature reserve lacks
the monitoring data of fauna diversity and population numbers and the trends of populations of
ecological indicator species over time. This is impedes objective evaluation of the conservation result
of the nature reserve.
C. Part 3: Potential Role of the Project Area
The Qinling National Botanical Garden construction project will have a positive impact on biodiversity
conservation, and will have the enormous potential effects in the entire Qinling Mountains.
1. The Qinling National Botanical Garden will occupy an area of 458 km², which between E108°13’–
108°29’. It will basically link the Zhouzhi Nature Reserve on its west (E108°19’) and the Niubeiliang
Nature Reserve on its east (E108°45') together. Completion of the Qinling National Botanical Garden
is propitious to fauna gene exchange between the two nature reserves; enable the Qinling Mountains
fauna genetic diversity to be effectively protected.
2. The Chinese government has already listed the Qinling Mountains as one of the 17 biodiversity
essential areas and it will be among the first to be protected in China. The implementation of the
project will be advantageous to further promote the protection enterprise of the Qinling Mountains
biodiversity.
3. The implementation of the project will be advantageous to the improvement of the inhabitants’
livelihood that live in the project area, and will reduce the pressure which the local resident will create
to project area environment.
4. The implementation of the project will be advantageous to strengthen the scientific research about
Qinling Mountains biodiversity and protection, and will be advantageous to the popularization of
scientific knowledge on wild animals and plants, and also will enhance the Xi'an city inhabitants
protection consciousness on the ecological environment.
5. The implementation of the project will be advantageous to establish the first monitoring station on
the dynamic change of biodiversity and the population quantity development change of the ecological
indication species in the Qinling Mountains, and later will bring the monitoring station into the National
and/or Global Ecosystem Monitoring Program.
6. The implementation of the project will be advantageous to first explore the successful and
unsuccessful experiences from the Qinling Mountains biodiversity conservation projects, and later will
copy the succeed conservation experience to the entire Qinling Mountains and the Daba Mountains
area even the whole world’s similar area.
D. Part 4 Qinling Mountains Priority Fauna for Future Conservation
In the past more than 50 years, Chinese all levels governments as well as the international nongovernment
organization (e.g., IUCN, WWF, GEF), have already given enormous support and the
attention to the biodiversity conservation in Qinling Mountains, especially in the aspect of the
protection of “the national treasure level” species, such as Qinling panda, Golden Monkey, Crested
Ibis, Takin and so on. Construction of nature reserve has made the achievement which focuses
attention all over the world. However, the support and attention to the small and/or the unique and/or
the endangered and/or ecological indicator species which live in the Qinling Mountains is still weak.
Therefore, based on the present situation of the Qinling Mountains fauna protection, and for the sake
of protecting the unique and/or the endangered wild animal in the Qinling Mountains more
comprehensive in future, and finally achieving goals of protecting the Qinling Mountains biodiversity,
suggested this project should first to protect these wild animal as follows.
1. Fish
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