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.
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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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