Wetlands and forests, oceans and known as the Earth’s three major ecosystems. Wetlandsare a special type of ecosystem, the transition zone between the waters and land on Earth,with great ecological value, social value and economic value, with the continuousimprovement of global environmental awareness, so people pay extra attention on theprotection of wetlands But now faced with the threat of wetland area rapidly dropped andfunction of the severely degraded. Xinjiang in the northwest of the driest areas, the wetlandarea is very small, reduced to a wetland area has been the founding of about2.8millionsquare kilometers is now about1.48million hectares. Many of its original natural wetlandsare disappearing or the evolution of the wetland, many oases, rivers, swamps have beendeveloped. With the economic development and population increase in the number of wetlandresources, interference by human activities is becoming increasingly serious, leading topollution of rivers, diversions, lakes, wander or disappear, the lake salinization increasedwetland ecological environment and causing serious damage. By domestic and internationalwetlands research and development status, characteristics and type of wetland in Xinjiang, thenecessity and feasibility of the development of Xinjiang wetland conservation and locallegislation and, finally, a wetland protection laws and regulations is not perfect, imperfectcurrent the Xinjiang wetland conservation in the primary problem, improve the Xinjiangwetland conservation and local legislation is imminent. Give full consideration to the specificcircumstances of the special resources and the environment in Xinjiang, climatic conditionsand economic development under the premise accelerate the improvement of Xinjiangwetland conservation and local legislation, proposed wetland protection lawscountermeasures.The full text is divided into four parts:The first section describes the profile and function of wetlands. Convention on Wetlands,as well as countries on the definition of wetlands and wetlands with special ecological value,economic value and social value.The second part presents an overview of wetland resources in Xinjiang and itscharacteristics. First describes the location and specificity of Xinjiang, the second focuses onthe type, distribution and characteristics of the wetland resources in Xinjiang. The third section describes the necessity and feasibility of the development of Xinjiangwetland conservation and local legislation. Experience and to learn from on wetlandprotection in the developed countries (USA, Japan, UK) as well as other provinces, such asthe interests of the trade-off mechanisms and institutional coordination mechanisms. Specialresources and the environment and economic development in Xinjiang, the actual situation todemonstrate the feasibility and necessity of local legislation.The fourth part of the local legislation for Wetland Protection in Xinjiang to make a fewsuggestions. First specialized wetland protection legislation should be developed, followed bythe concept of the use of protective wetland protection should be established, and once againbuild a good system of public participation and occupation and retrieval system, and finally tocoordinate the functions of the wetland conservation management agencies to improve thesupervision and monitoring mechanism. |