Source: China News Agency

The distribution of the North China Leopard in the flagship species of Shanxi has expanded all the way, extending from the southern section of Taihang Mountain to the middle of Luliang Mountain, and the number of populations ranks first in China.

On the 16th, at the news ventilation meeting held by the Forestry and Grassland Bureau (referred to as "Shanxi Province Forestry Bureau") in Shanxi Province, Yue Kuiqing, deputy director of the Forestry Bureau of Shanxi Province, introduced that through monitoring, there are 2743 species of wild plants in Shanxi.There are 541 species of terrestrial wildlife, which are distributed in various natural protection places and are effectively protected.

Shanxi is one of the most abundant provinces in North China ’s leopard species.In recent years, its distribution has continued to expand. Among the 11 prefecture -level cities in Shanxi Province, except Datong and Shuozhou, the remaining nine cities have the distribution of North China Leopard.Shanxi North China Leopard currently has 48 stable population and eight centralized distribution areas.

"At present, the natural protection area in the Taihang Mountains in the south." Yue Kuiqing said that more than 30 kinds of plants and 17 kinds of birds have a new distribution record in Shanxi.More than 16,000.The brown horse chicken entered the Zhongjo Mountains from the Luya Mountain and Pangquangou Reserve in the north of Luliang Mountain.

As of now, there are 274 natural protection land in Shanxi.Among them, there are 46 nature reserve, 49 scenic spots, 83 forest parks, 63 wetland parks, 19 geological parks, 12 desert parks, and two grassland parks (pilot). The total area of ​​protective land is 2.4352 million hemed.