Impacts of canal projects on estuarine wetlands and countermeasures for protection
This article takes a case study of the Pinglu Canal Project to conduct a research on the impact of the canal on estuarine wetlands and protection strategies.Based on the results of regional ecological environment investigation,the main pathways of the impact of the Pinglu Canal on the Maoweihai Bay wetland in Guangxi are analyzed from the aspects of hydrological processes,biogenic factors,wetland evolution,and estuarine biology.The main strategies for protecting estuarine wetlands of the Pinglu Canal are proposed,including developing standards for green canal construction,implementing ecological restoration in estuaries where destroyed by canal construction,increasing environmentaland ecologicalrisk emergency response capabilities,promoting ecological operation of canal navigation,and building an ecological environment monitoring system.In the future,further research and analysis should be conducted on the changes in estuarine wetlands under canal stress based on the operation status,ecological investigation,and environmental monitoring of the canal,in order to provide more reference for the protection of the ecological environment of the canal,such as the Xianggui Canal and the Ganyue canal.
Pinglu Canalestuarine wetlandecological impactMaoweihai Bay