Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Mud-Snail-on-Wetland-in-China-27MZIFJXCRSDL.htmlConceptually similarMud Snail on Wetland in ChinaGP0STRDH1Completed★★★★Wetland Fishermen Sell Mud Snails in ChinaGP0STRCQ2Completed★★★★Wetland Fisherman in a Livestock Farm in ChinaGP0STRCPICompleted★★★★Wetland Fisherman on Boat in ChinaGP0STRCLFCompleted★★★★Wetland Mud Snails Fishermen in ChinaGP0STRCPTCompleted★★★★Coastal Wetlands in Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRCSZCompleted★★★★Coastal Wetlands in Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRCQMCompleted★★★★Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRCT2Completed★★★★★★Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Jiangsu Province, ChinaGP0STRCT3Completed★★★★★★View AllGP0STRCPUMud Snail on Wetland in ChinaThe mud snail (Bullacta exarata), very popular for people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province. The inshore tidal wetland is an important source of income for those fishermen who catch the mud snails as a living. This wetland is also the habitat for migratory birds, who share the land with fishermen communities. There are plans for a major land reclamation in this area, which would make the wetlands disappear.In original language:滩涂湿地上的泥螺2017年8月20日。江苏省东台市条子泥,备受江浙人民喜爱的泥螺真身。退潮后的滩涂湿地,是拾泥螺的渔民的生活来源,也是和他们共享一片湿地的候鸟们赖以生存的栖息地。Locations:China-East Asia-JiangsuDate:20 Aug, 2017Credit:© Shi bai Xiao / GreenpeaceMaximum size:6048px X 4032pxKeywords:Day-Forests (campaign title)-KWCI (GPI)-Nature-Outdoors-Raining-Sand-Snails-Water-WetlandsShoot:Land Reclamation Projects Threaten the Last Remaining Coastal Wetlands in ChinaThe speed and scale of land reclamation is the primary threat to the environment of China's coastal wetlands. During land reclamation projects, huge changes take place in the local biodiversity and habitat of migratory birds and other species, but also for those fishermen communities who have been closely bound up with the coastal wetlands from generation to generation. The reclamation projects that are occupying the coastal wetlands illegally and the poor supervision of land use after the reclamation have caused great damage and threats to the natural coastal wetlands and local biodiversity. To protect the 800 million mu (1mu=0.0006667km²) wetland in China and preserve the national ecological security, it is necessary to effectively delineate and implement the ecological protection “red line”, a set of ecological guidelines issued on February 2017 by Chinese central authorities that will declare certain regions under mandatory and rigorous protection.Related Collections:Land Reclamation Projects Threaten the Last Remaining Coastal Wetlands in China (Photos & Video)