Story | 28 Jan, 2022
So far, UNESCO has designated 1154 World Heritage Sites, 169 Global Geoparks, and 727 Biosphere Reserves. Among them, there are nearly 200 sites that hold two of these three designations, and 8 sites with all three designations. Huangshan is one of these eight. These sites are outstanding…
Story | 28 Jan, 2022
The Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus), the world’s rarest primate and the most endangered among all gibbon species in the world, rated as Critically Endangered by IUCN. With less than 10 individuals remaining in the 1980s, the population has risen to 35 in 2021. The conservation of Hainan gibbon…
Story | 11 Jan, 2022
Meet inspiring PANORAMA Solution Providers: Yan Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Opening a space for PANORAMA Solutions Providers, to express their perceptions and perspectives on global issues. We aim at valuing their knowledge and know-how as well as collecting their recommendations and needs for upscaling and accelerating the impacts of their solution. We want to discuss…
Story | 18 Nov, 2021
Pathfinder Award 2021 winners announced: IUCN and UNDP recognise innovation in nature conservation
On 15 November 2021, the online ceremony of the Pathfinder Award felicitated four winners from China, India, Madagascar, and Tanzania. This award recognises and celebrates their innovative, integrated approaches to protected and conserved area management that successfully conserve nature while…
Story | 31 Jan, 2021
Community Conservation Area volunteers safeguard 5,000 wintering Oriental Storks in Tianjin, China
CEESP News: by Linda Wong, Jinfeng Zhou and Xiaohong Yang, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation
The coastal city of Tianjin witnessed about 5,000 Oriental storks wintering in 2020, almost doubling the population from previous years. However, the picture may…
Story | 13 Aug, 2020
Even though naturally perfectly equipped to roam the steep mountains of Central Asia, the snow leopard is facing extinction. Around 7,500 individuals live in the wild, according to the most recent estimates. There is a strong commitment of conservationists to prevent the extinction of the…
Story | 03 Jun, 2020
CEESP News: by Jinfeng Zhou, Linda Wong, Charlotte Hong, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation*
Emergent e-commerce benefits peoples daily lives in numerous ways, but it has also made illegal wildlife trade easy and convenient. During COVID-19, Chinese civil…
Story | 02 Feb, 2020
Cold Winter Deserts of Central Asia among potential World Heritage sites, new IUCN report finds
Cold Winter Deserts in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are among six globally significant biodiversity sites in Central Asia that could potentially qualify for World Heritage status, according to a new report launched today by IUCN, the official advisor on natural World Heritage.
Story | 30 Dec, 2019
A Reflection on Protected Areas in Serving Wildlife Migration: Endangered Oriental Storks
CEESP News: by Linda Wong and Jinfeng Zhou, Secretariat of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF).
Starving migratory Oriental Storks have been found in northeast China this wintering season. Field investigations found that the lack of food in…
Story | 07 Nov, 2019
Islamabad, Pakistan, 6 November 2019 -The 7th International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Asia Regional Conservation Forum – one of Asia’s most important nature conservation events - kicked-off today with a strong focus on convening a…