三峡工程不仅以其巨大的规模和效益而举世瞩目,而且兴建工程引起的生态与环境的影响问题也成了世界范围的热门话题。三峡工程环境影响的评价工作始于50年代中后期,80年代以来,研究工作不断深入。1991年12月,由中国科学院环境评价部和长江水资源保护科研所联合编制完成了长达数百万字的《长江三峡水利枢纽环境影响报告书》,1992年初完成了法定的审批程序。1993年7月经国务院三峡工程建设委 The Three Gorges Project not only attracted worldwide attention due to its huge scale and efficiency, but also the ecological and environmental issues caused by the construction projects have become a hot topic in the world. The evaluation of the environmental impact of the Three Gorges Project began in the middle and late 1950s. Since the 1980s, research work has continued to deepen. In December 1991, the Environmental Impact Assessment Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Yangtze River Water Resources Protection Research Institute jointly prepared a multi-million-word “Environmental Impact Report for the Three Gorges Water Control Project on the Yangtze River” and completed the statutory approval process in early 1992. In July 1993, the State Council Construction Committee of the Three Gorges Project