Chebaling Nature Reserve

Chebaling National Nature Reserve

synonym

Chebaling Nature Reserve generally refers to Chebaling National Nature Reserve

Chebaling National Nature Reserve is located between Shixing County and QUANNAN county. To the north of Chebaling is Shixing County, and to the south of Chebaling is QUANNAN County in Jiangxi Province. The total area is 16110.7 hectares. It belongs to forest ecological nature reserve. The main protected objects are evergreen broad-leaved forest and rare animals and plants in the middle subtropics. It is one of the comprehensive nature reserves in China.

Rare animals include South China tiger, yellow bellied horned pheasant, pangolin, etc. Due to the rich animal and plant resources, it is known as "species treasure house, Nanling pearl".

Historical evolution

Chebaling Nature Reserve was established in July 1981.

On May 9, 1988, it was promoted to a national nature reserve with the approval of the State Council.

In September 1995, he joined the network of "man and biosphere reserves" in China.

In 1995, he joined the "China biosphere reserve network" and was awarded "environmental education base" by Guangdong provincial Party committee. The College of life sciences of Jinan University listed Chebaling reserve as teaching practice base.

In 2004, the Department of science and technology of Guangdong Province, the Propaganda Department of the provincial Party committee, the Provincial Department of education, the provincial tourism administration and the Provincial Association for science and technology jointly issued a document, which was named "Guangdong Youth Science and technology education base".

In December 2005, it was selected as "China biodiversity conservation demonstration base" by the expert committee of China Biodiversity Conservation Foundation.

In 2006, it was selected as "the most beautiful natural ecological village in Guangdong".

geographical environment

position

Chebaling National Nature Reserve is located in the southeast of Shixing County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, 46 kilometers away from the county, more than 100 kilometers away from Shaoguan City, and more than 300 kilometers away from Guangzhou city. Its geographical location is 114 ° 09 ′ 04 ″ - 114 ° 16 ′ 46 ″ E and 24 ° 40 ′ 29 ″ - 24 ° 46 ′ 21 ″ n.

climate

The nature reserve has a subtropical humid monsoon climate. It is hot in summer and cool in winter, and occasionally snowy in winter (only in the upper part of Pingshi Jinjiling). The annual average temperature is about 20 degrees, the average temperature in January is about 10 degrees, and the average temperature in July is about 29 degrees. The warm subtropical climate and abundant rainfall make it evergreen all the year round. It is very suitable for tourism, but the best time for tourism is spring (March to May) and autumn (October to December) Two seasons.

Geology and geomorphology

Geotectonically, the Reserve belongs to South China fold system. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The highest peak is 1256m above sea level in tianpingjia, and the lowest is 330m in zhangdongshui. In the northwest, there are Cambrian and Ordovician strata, which are folded and fractured to form the middle mountain of northeast southwest trending metamorphic sand shale with high mountains, deep valleys and steep slopes. The Cambrian strata in the central and southern part of the basin form metamorphic sand shale low mountains with north-south strike. Jurassic volcanic rocks intruded into the north and middle part of the area, forming neutral and intermediate acid volcanic low mountains with north-south strike. The neotectonic movement has intermittent rise, with three planation levels of 1000-1100m, 800-900m and 500-600m remaining, and two terraces can be seen in some areas.

Geology and geomorphology affect environmental factors. The northeast trending middle mountain of the nature reserve can be used as a barrier for cold wave invasion, and the North-South trending low mountain is conducive to the entry of humid southeast monsoon; the metamorphic sandstone has strong weathering, broken faults, developed joints, and water is easy to infiltrate, making it an ideal forest area for water conservation. The climate, hydrothermal conditions and soil properties of this geological landform are conducive to species reproduction. In addition, since the Quaternary, the flora and fauna are well preserved, which creates a good forest ecological environment for the nature reserve.

Area range

Chebaling National Nature Reserve borders QUANNAN County of Jiangxi Province in the East, Siqian Town of Shixing County in the south, liuzhangjiashan state forest farm of Shixing County in the West and Luoba town of Shixing County in the north, with a total area of 16110.7 hectares.

Protected objects

Chebaling National Nature Reserve is a biosphere reserve. The main protected objects are evergreen broad-leaved forest and rare animals and plants in the middle subtropics. It is one of the comprehensive nature reserves in China.

Botany

The zonal vegetation in Chebaling is a typical evergreen broad-leaved forest in the middle subtropical zone, which has an ancient origin and many ancient remains. It belongs to the transitional floristic type of south subtropics. It is a part of the flora of South China. Due to the well preserved forest vegetation, there are abundant plant resources in the vast forest sea, with about 2000 species, belonging to 925 genera and 290 families. There are more than 40 kinds of edible plants, 526 kinds of medicinal plants, 83 kinds of fruit plants, 215 kinds of ornamental plants, 54 kinds of starch plants, 187 kinds of oil plants, 64 kinds of feed plants, 67 kinds of tanning plants and 236 kinds of timber trees. At the same time, Chebaling has 14 species of rare and endangered plants, accounting for 17.9% of the total number of rare and endangered plants in Guangdong Province. Among them, there are 4 species of national level 2 key protected plants, 8 species of national level 3 key protected plants, and 2 species of Guangdong province level 1 key protected plants. Among these plants, there are 9 species of national key protected plants in the region, including Bole tree, Cymbidium odoratum, Toona sinensis, palm tree, camphor tree, rendou, Phoebe bournei, jinmaogou and Alsophila spinulosa; 11 species of rare and endangered plants, including Cinnamomum cassia, tourniquet wood, Dendrocalamus latifolia, Morinda officinalis, Bole tree, Cymbidium odoratum, Ailanthus altissima, Camellia sinensis, rendou and Phoebe spinulosa; 2 species of provincial key protected plants, including Cephalotaxus fortunei and Castanopsis fargesii. The sight seeing wood, which is famous as "prehistoric heritage" and the Cephalotaxus, which is famous as "living fossil", have been preserved in large quantities. In addition, there is a 200 year old "king of Cunninghamia lanceolata" in Guangdong Province, which is the largest and oldest tree in Guangdong Province and cannot be embraced by three people. There is also a 300 year old giant plate-shaped root.

animal

There are 1552 species of vertebrates and insects, belonging to 969 genera and 253 species, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects. There are 38 species of mammals, 217 species of birds, 36 species of reptiles, 16 species of amphibians, 25 species of fish and 1220 species of insects. The species and quantity of birds are in the forefront of Guangdong Provincial Nature Reserve, which is the most ideal "laboratory" for bird research. There are many kinds of butterflies in insects. There are 34 species of rare and endangered animals in the reserve, among which Panthera tigris amoyensis, Panthera pardus, Neofelis nebulosa and Muntiacus are the first-class key protected animals There are 8 species of animals under national second level protection, including pangolin, otter, spotted beaver, kitten, golden cat, water deer, Sumen antelope and impala. There are 223 species of birds belonging to 42 families. Among them, the first-class national protected birds are Tragopan caboti, and the second-class national protected birds are Hainan tiger spotted pheasant, mandarin duck, black winged Kite, black crested falcon, kite, red bellied eagle and crested eagle, accounting for 16% of the total number of birds. In addition, one species of amphibian is listed in the second level of national key protection. There are 1552 species of vertebrates and insects, including 38 species of mammals, 217 species of birds, 36 species of reptiles, 16 species of amphibians, 25 species of fish and 1220 species of insects. There are 34 species of rare and endangered animals, such as South China tiger, yellow bellied pheasant, Hainan tiger spot (ascending bird), pangolin, Sumen antelope, white bellied Mountain Eagle, silver pheasant and tiger frog.

Protection area management

In order to promote the implementation of the concept of Biosphere Reserve, the joint Conservation Committee of Chebaling World Biosphere Reserve was established on the basis of community co management. It is composed of the management organization of the reserve, the local county, township government and representatives of relevant units, villages and farms. A set of articles of Association of the joint Conservation Committee of Guangdong Chebaling World Biosphere Reserve and a set of regulations of Guangdong Chebaling World Biosphere Reserve were formulated The joint protection convention of Chebaling World Biosphere Reserve coordinates the interests of the reserve and its region, the management department of the reserve and different stakeholders, and coordinates the natural protection, ecological construction and socio-economic development, so that the joint protection work can be standardized and institutionalized under the framework of laws, regulations and rules.

scenic spot

Museum of Natural History

Chebaling Nature Museum was built in 1991 and completed in 1995. It is a large-scale garden building with novel design and unique characteristics. The whole building covers an area of 2279.2 m2 and a building area of 3474.62 m2. The main building has four floors, and each floor has an exhibition area of 253.55m2. It is divided into graphic materials, plants, amphibians and reptiles exhibition hall, insect exhibition hall, mammal exhibition hall and bird exhibition hall. The museum has collected more than 2000 academic materials such as pictures, charts and books, and more than 20000 wax leaf specimens of plants, including more than 18000 higher plants and more than 11000 animal specimens.

Wild Botanical Garden

There are 1928 species of wild plants in Chebaling Nature Reserve, among which Bole tree is the first level of national key protection, and Phoebe, Phoebe bournei, camphor tree, wild soybean and Toona sinensis are the second level of national key protection

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