Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China And Taiwan

in China published by the SFA lists these 15 species as the main part of the bureau’s ‘rescuing wildlife project’^22 : giant pa ...

intrinsic value of the wild animal itself, remarked: ‘Now people are looking up to Wolong. It has millions of RMB in its budget ...

poached and traded in China and Southeast Asia. As the monkey’s habitat is subtropical forests, it is particularly endangered by ...

The alligator has an economic value, as its organs are used in traditional Chinese medicine. The construction of dams, farming, ...

governments, have been matched by scientists and NGOs. We cannot, however, generalize from these cases of charismatic animals to ...

Disaster brought by heavy rains of Typhoon Haitang and Matsa in the summer of 2005 ruined its habitat and washed out many fry.^5 ...

reduction or adjustment of timber output in state-owned forest farms of the northeast and Inner Mongolia; and rehabilitation and ...

Northwest China) and the Middle and the Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River. Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Prog ...

inadequately compensated. Finally, the lack of long-range planning and development of good practices may increase other problems ...

government. China signed the Ramsar Convention for the Protection of Wetlands in 1992, but to date has not yet enacted national ...

SCIENTISTS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS In China Most of the data on China’s species and ecosystems have been collected by biolog ...

Scientists have objected to large-scale construction projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam, dams on the upper reaches of the Ya ...

organizations, NGOs, large-scale plans or group-research plans, related websites, biology databases, documents and publications. ...

modification to the habitats of endangered and threatened species. Thus, China with a much larger number of endemic species tha ...

Personal interview with State Forestry Administration manager, Beijing, 5 July, 2004. Mackinnon et al., op cit, n. 1, p. 21. Pe ...

See Jiang, Zhigang (2004), ‘Wildlife conservation in China: policy, practice and prospects’, in Jiang Zhigang (ed.), Key Topics ...

Personal interview, representative of IFAW, Beijing, 30 June, 2004. See http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/ecology/English/animals_e/Hi ...

Ying, Zhang (2001), Evaluation on Forest Biodiversity in China (in Chinese), Beijing: China Forestry Publishers, p. 4. State Fo ...

Legal and institutional framework for biodiversity conservation In this chapter we consider the biodiversity protection regime ...

From this period to the present (2005), 15 laws^2 have addressed different aspects of biodiversity conservation. Laws offer the ...