"Indigenous wildflowers, as well as indigenous grasses, bushes and trees, constitute the native flora as an organic whole, which is the foundation of every ecosystem," said the scholar and author of a bestselling icones plantarum "Wildflowers of Chongli," who appeared as a guest on Xinhua's live streaming program featuring the flowering mountain meadows in Chongli, about 200 kilometers to the northwest of Beijing.
Insects, birds, mammals, amphibians... Inside the dynamic circle of life, other life-forms' survival depends directly or indirectly on the plants, said Liu. "In other words, protecting the native plants is to protect the local ecosystem," he stressed.
For the past few years, China has been pushing to return farmlands into grasslands, wetlands and forests, in order to let the ecosystem rehabilitate and regain its vigor. "In just a few years, Mother Nature has worked miracles on the over-exploited fields to bring back a flood of new life," exclaimed the expert.
The importance of the wilderness has been accepted and supported by more and more Chinese in recent years, especially among the youth, according to the professor who has been sharing plant-related knowledge on social media and encouraging the public to observe and document native plants.
"It is inspiring to see that a number of concrete projects have been put into practice to defend the native flora and the integrity of the local ecosystem," he said.
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