The total area of Yangtze River wetlands under protection has increased by 25 times since the Yangtze River Wetland Protection Network established 15 years ago, according to Wetland Network Forum at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP14) on November 9, 2022.

As pioneer of China’s wetland protection network, the Yangtze River Wetland Protection Network was founded in November, 2007.

Now, the number of wetlands from source of the Yangtze River to its estuary which are under protection of the network has increased to more than 300, a 14-fold increase since its establishment. And wetland area protected by the network members has increased 25-fold to 26 million hectares. (en.hubei.gov.cn by Deng Xinyu and Ruan Xinqi)