Guest guest Posted October 4, 2001 Report Share Posted October 4, 2001 China Daily http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/ 10/04/2001 GUANGZHOU: China has been expanding a nature reserve for sea turtles near Huidong on the country's southern coast with financing of 7.7 million yuan (US$927,700). According to local sources, it is the only State-level sea turtle protection zone on the Asian continental shelf and its land area will be expanded from 1 square kilometre to 2 square kilometres and its sea area from 3 square kilometres to 16 square kilometres. In the meantime, a 2-kilometre-long highway connecting to the nature reserve will also be upgraded, along with the construction of rooms with a combined floor space of 1,500 square metres for the purposes of hatching sea turtle eggs, treating injured or ill sea turtles and exhibiting samples of sea turtles and other marine creatures. The entire expansion will be finished in May next year. The number of sea turtles, which are said to have existed since the era of dinosaurs, has been decreasing sharply due to random killing by humans over a long period. There are now only about 4,000 sea turtles in the South China Sea, compared with 40,000 sea turtles in the same area in the 1980s. Xinhua Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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