- ‘Report of Protected Areas Task Force submitted to the China Council for International
Cooperation on Environment and Development’, in Xie Yan, Wang Sung and Peter Schei
(2004), China’s Protected Areas, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, pp. 279–80. - Quoted in the Division of Wildlife Protection, SFA (2003), Study on China’s Nature
Reserves Policies(in Chinese and English), Beijing: China Forestry Publishing Co.,
p. 236. - Ibid, p. 237.
- Ibid.
- See Xie Yan, ‘Review on the management system of China’s nature reserves’, in Xie et al.
(2004), p. 317. - Personal interview with Professor of Ecology, Beijing, 10 January, 2005.
- Ibid, pp. 317–18.
- The number ‘nearly 2,000 nature reserves’ is reported in the 2004 publication edited by Xie,
Wang, and Schlei (2004), op cit, n. 2, p. 281. Government sources list several numbers, with
the variance explained by time of publication and whether the source includes the most
recent figures from provinces and special administrative regions. Respondents to interviews
in May 2005 all mentioned ‘more than 2,000’ protected areas. One, an upper-level manager
in SEPA, said that ‘by the end of 2004, China had 2,195 PAs, covering 148 million hectares’.
Personal interview, Beijing, 19 May, 2005. - Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 281.
- Xie Yan and Li Lishu (2004), ‘Gap analysis on nature reserve system in China’, in Xie et al.
(2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 518. - For a discussion of this large reserve, see Wang Zuoguan, Wang Zuolong, and Zhang Li
(2002), ‘Research into legal countermeasures of Nature Preservation Zone of Three
River Sources’ (in Chinese), Journal of Qinghai Nationalities Institute, 28 (2) (April),
82–89. - Ibid, pp. 518–19.
- Ibid, p. 519.
- Xie Yan, in Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 322.
- Ibid.
- Personal interview with official in SFA, 21 May, 2005.
- Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 274.
- Ibid, p. 283.
- Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 284.
- Ibid, p. 286.
- Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 286.
- Harkness, James (1998), ‘Recent trends in gorestry and conservation of biodiversity in
China’, China Quarterly, (156) (December), 921. - See Wang Xiaomi (2004), ‘The Perfection of the legal system of nature reserves in China’
(in Chinese), WuHan University, MS thesis. - Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, pp. 518–23.
- Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 325.
- From IUCN, 1994.
- Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 338.
- Personal interview with SFA official, Beijing, May 27, 2004; and personal communication,
March 30, 2005. See also Wang Xiaoyang (2003), ‘Legal issues of wetland nature reserve
managed by multi-departments’, Forestry Inventory and Planning, 4 (December),
14–17. - Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 275.
- Personal interview with ENGO representative, Beijing, 11 June, 2004.
- Xie et al. (2004), op cit, n. 3, p. 345.
- Examples of mitigation measures proposed by nature reserve managers include:
‘The West to East Pipeline bisected several NRs and provided compensation, and the
major highway that will cut through Mengyang NR in Xishuangbanna will be raised off
the ground for some sections to allow elephants to pass underneath, the Golmud-Lhasa
railroad was designed to allow Tibetan Antelope to continue their migration between two
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