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More than 90% of terrestrial ecosystem types, together with 85% of key wild animal populations, are now protected in China; some populations of rare and endangered wild species are gradually ...
Mar 4, 2024 · In 2023, three people were imprisoned and fined for illegally digging out 2,500 kilograms of Cibotium barometz, or woolly fern, in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Despite being listed as a second-class, state-protected plant species, the fern is often illegally removed for medicinal use.
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- How Did You Come to Work in China, and What’s It like?
- Do Foreign Scientists Need to Speak Chinese to Work in China?
- How Is China Balancing Urbanization with Conservation?
- What Strikes You as Unique About The Chinese Ecological-Research Environment?
I lead the landscape-ecology research group at one of China’s most diverse botanical gardens. My team aims to better understand the lives of animals and how they interact with their environments. This helps us to create more effective methods of conserving a biodiverse environment. The 18-person team, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Science...
In 2011, I moved to Thailand from the United Kingdom as part of my postdoctoral research, before heading to Australia and finally taking a position in China in 2013. At first, I was naive about how different the culture might be in Asian countries and it’s definitely been a steep learning curve. Adaptability is important. I think that many people i...
For most of my team, neither English nor Chinese is their first language. We have around 12 different nationalities, so discussions take place predominantly in English, as a default. I work closely with my Chinese colleagues to make sure that our research work is properly communicated when it’s published in Chinese. In meetings with Chinese colleag...
It’s an ongoing challenge. The concept of an ecological civilization — the government’s vision for environmentally sustainable growth in China — was written into the country’s constitution in 2018 after it was made a national priority in 2012, which is a huge commitment to sustainability. A principal policy is the ecological conservation red-line p...
A Chinese ecologist needs to be fast to act. The time frame to submit an application for a grant can be very quick. Often you have less than 24 hours to respond. Also, most initiatives are tied to the government’s five-year plans, so our priorities need to adapt to reflect those five-year cycles. In the past two years, there has been a complete inv...
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- 2021
Feb 17, 2023 · Rare and endangered plant species (REPs) are facing high danger of extinction, yet a comprehensive and up-to-date review on their conservation in China is still lacking.
Jan 17, 2022 · China is in a unique position to lead the transition to a carbon neutral and nature positive economy. World Economic Forum’s New Nature Economy Report Series comes out with a deep dive on China, highlighting which 15 nature positive business transitions could create USD1.9 trillion in annual business value and 88 million new jobs by 2030 in ...
There are about 10% of the world’s land plants in China, of which 11% are threatened species. Here, we used China as a proxy to identify hotspots of threatened species, evalu-ate the eectiveness of current conservation networks and assess the correlations between distribution patterns of dierent groups. We built the most complete database of ...
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Feb 23, 2021 · Biodiversity science in China has seen rapid growth over recent decades, ranging from baseline biodiversity studies to understanding the processes behind evolution across dynamic regions such as the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
