TAIYUAN, April 25 (Xinhua) -- North China's Shanxi
Province is endeavoring to taking a lead in the country to put all of its forest
coverage under video monitoring for fire prevention within this year, according
to the provincial forestry bureau on Saturday.
"The video-network building has been aimed to aid an
early detection of and response to forest fires," said Geng Huaiying, head of
the bureau.
He said the bureau is seeing to put 2.2 million
hectares of forest under the round-the-clock video monitoring this year by
installing 440 monitors.
The province rich in mineral resources has forests
covering 14.12 percent of its land.
The bureau started to install video monitors in 2007,
when 45 forest fires were reported, affecting 892 hectares of forests. However,
such incidents were reduced to 19 in 2008, after some local monitoring networks
were established to send early warnings.
"We have seen many of our forestry administration
colleagues from other provinces such as Shandong and Zhejiang come to study
Shanxi's experience in forest fire monitoring," said Geng.
He said that the administration has found the
monitoring also useful to detect forest pest attacks, illegal forest felling and
occupations.
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