China is plan to work up a raw national car park to save two endangered species – the Siberian tiger and Amur leopard – as it arise its US - flair national park dodging .
This fresh commons will be located in northeast China in the Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces , on the border of Russia and North Korea . It will cover 14,600 straight kilometers ( 5,600 straightforward miles ) , making it 60 percent bigger than Yellowstone in the US . According toXinhua , a “ comprehensive architectural plan and pilot for the internal park is expected to be convey out before 2020 . ”
In 1998 , only six to nine furious Siberian tigers were calculate to be living in this area , arise to 27 by 2015 after conservation efforts that admit a logging ban . However , the current reserve these tigers inhabit is not enough to let the species expand . just about 400 more are thought to hold up in Russia .
Meanwhile , the global population of Amur leopards was less than 30 in 2007 , mostly due to hunting and other human activities . This had almost double by 2015 thanks to oeuvre by conservation groups like the World Wildlife Fund ( WWF ) , but more still needs to be done .
China presently has whatScience Magazinecalled a “ mishmash of national reserves , semiprotected forest , and provincial parks . ” So , in 2013 , they decided to start make fully - fledged national parks to protect a number of species . These admit the two aforementioned , in gain to gargantuan pandas , the Tibetan antelope , and the Asiatic elephant .
The national car park for gargantuan pandas was alsorecently approve , which apparently will require 170,000 hoi polloi to be relocated from southwesterly China ’s Sichuan Province . That park will span 27,000 solid kilometers ( 10,400 square miles ) .
Both of these picket in comparison to the large internal park in the creation – Northeast Greenland National Park , which has an area of 972,000 square kilometers ( 375,000 square miles ) . But they will be critical in helping China sustain its wildlife , which has been compared to the internal park project start up by the US with Yellowstone in 1872 during its peak of industrial enterprise .
“ The [ US ] national parks programme finally expanded to include more than 450 sites and has become one of the state ’s greatest tourist draws , " theNew York Timesnoted in 2015 . “ Now China is stress to do with some of its natural space what the United States did during its own industrial boom . ”
