- Personal interview with State Forestry Administration manager, Beijing, 5 July, 2004.
- Mackinnon et al., op cit, n. 1, p. 21.
- Personal interview with an ornithologist in the Institute of Zoology, CAS, Beijing, 25 June,
2004. - Personal interview with an SFA official, Beijing, 6 July, 2004.
- Personal interview with a member of the CAS, Beijing, 30 June, 2004.
- A brochure of CCICED explains its origin and purpose in China: ‘Established in 1992, the
China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED)
is a high-level non-governmental advisory body of the State Council of China. Every year,
each working group (WG) under CCICED submits its report to the Council based on its
studies and investigation which experts from (the) international community and China
worked together in the past year. CCICED members and co-chairs of the working groups
hold an annual Council Meeting where formal recommendations from WGs are approved
and submitted directly to the Chinese Government. Among the six working groups in
various disciplines at the beginning of CCICED, expanded to eight, the Biodiversity
Working Group (BWG) is the only one dealing with living resources, that is biodiversity
including species, ecosystems and genetic diversity. The purpose of the BWG is to
strengthen cooperation and exchange experiences between China and the international
community in the field of biodiversity conservation. It is aiming at evaluating the current
status and key problems of biodiversity conservation in China, and formulating key
recommendations for conserving China’s biodiversity through the Council to the national or
provincial governments accordingly’. See BWG/CCICED, ‘Introduction to Biodiversity
Working Group, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and
Development’ (no publication date available). - The structure of endangered species at the regional level ranges from extinct, extinct in the
wild, regionally extinct, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, and near threatened
to those of least concern. The English version of the IUCN Red List Categories and
Criteria is at: http:www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/redlists/rlcategories2000.html. The guide-
lines for application of the IUCN Red List Criteria at regional levels is found at:
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/redlists/regionalguidelines.htm. - See the preface by John MacKinnon in Wang Sung and Xie Yan (eds) (2004), BWG of China
Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, China Species
Red List, vol. I, Beijing: Higher Education Press, p. ii. - Interviews with officials of the CAS, Beijing, 25 June, 2004 and 30 December, 2004. See
also Wang Sung and Xie Yan, ibid, p. 9. - Interview with a scientist in the CAS, Beijing, 25 June, 2004.
- Guodong, Peng (1996), ‘IUCN and the application to species conservation’. See
http://www.goecities.com/~smewmao/indepth/IUCNlevl.html. - See http://ngis.zo.ntu.edu.tw/new/rareplant/index.htm.
- Legislative Yuan (1989, 1994), The Wildlife Conservation Law and Its Implementing
Regulations, Taipei: Legislative Yuan. - Guojia Huanjing Baohu Chu (1998), Zhongguo Shengwu Duoyangshing Guoching
Yanchiu Baogao, Beijing: Zhongguo Huanjing Kexue Chuban She (in Chinese); SEPA
(1998), Country Report of China Biodiversity, Beijing: China Environmental Science
Publishing. - Wang and Xie, ibid, p. 12.
- Republic of China (2001), Yearbook, Taiwan 2000, Taipei: Government Information Office,
pp. 203–04. - ‘Birds in Taiwan’, see: http://www.birdingintaiwan.com/birds/intwn.htm.
- ‘Taiwan blessed with 53 major wild bird habitats’, Central News Agency, 4 September,
- Also see: http://th.gio.gov.tw/show.cfm?news_id=829; ‘IBAs in Taiwan’,
BirdLife International, at http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sites/index.html?action=
SitHTMFindResults.asp&INam=&Cty=205&z=1. - State Forestry Administration (2001), Retrospect & Prospect, Beijing: Department of
Wildlife Conservation, SFA. - China Daily(2005), ‘Old age cause of death for 4 wild giant pandas’, 23 July.
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