GLOBALink | Int'l experts praise China's efforts, achievements in restoring wetlands

The Wuhan Declaration was adopted Sunday at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP14), which is being held in China's Wuhan and Switzerland's Geneva.

In recent interviews with Xinhua, international experts praised China's efforts and achievements in restoring wetlands over the past decade.

China, in 1992, became a party to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP14), an intergovernmental agreement dedicated to the conservation and rational use of wetland ecosystems.

Since then, China has established a legal framework for wetlands conservation and issued a series of policies to increase protection. Over the past decade, China has added or restored more than 800,000 hectares of wetlands, according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

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