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On the morning of July 28, 2023, Technical Seminar on Appraisal and Assessment of Ecological Environmental Damage and High-Quality Development in Northeast China was held in Changchun, Jilin Province with the goals to build a beautiful China where man and nature coexist harmoniously, to create a new situation for ecological civilization, to strengthen the technical exchange and legal system construction of judicial appraisal of ecological environmental damage, to innovate the theory and method of appraisal and evaluation of ecological environmental damage, to fight the “defense war” of black soil in Northeast China, and to promote the ecological environmental protection and high-quality development in Northeast China. The Legal Working Committee of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) acted as one of the guiding institutions. At the seminar, Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, Secretary-General of CBCGDF, delivered a report entitled “Biodiversity and High-Qu...

At the end of June 2023, the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Justice issued a notice on the "Regulations on the Promotion of Private Economic Development in Heilongjiang Province (Draft for Comments)" to enhance the openness and transparency of legislation, promote public participation, and improve the quality of administration. The Low Carbon Workshop (LCW) of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) actively responded to it, and after careful study and discussion, the following two suggestions were put forward for reference. To add contents like "green development" in the text. We should not only focus on promoting the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy, but in the context of ecological civilization, we should also focus on promoting green, low-carbon, environmentally friendly, and sustainable development of the private economy. To add one more article after Article 16: To pr...

Recently, the GBIF working group of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) has uploaded and released the data of Ruppia Maritima  on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) platform for public’s reference and download. Credit: GBIF Credit: ZHOU Jinfeng The data was provided by Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, the General Secretary of CBCGDF, who recently recorded the Ruppia Maritima in Yingwuzhou ecological wetland in Jinshan District, Shanghai. Ruppia maritima is widely distributed in temperate and subtropical coastal waters and salt lakes around the world, and can grow in coastal salt pans or inland saline lakes. Compared with other submerged plants, Ruppia maritima has stronger adaptability to the environment. It can tolerate a wider range of salinity and alkalinity, and has better adaptability to water temperature. It can survive in low temperature, but high temperatures may not be conducive to its growth. Ruppia...

From November 30 to December 12, 2023, the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held in Dubai World Expo City. This grand event will gather representatives from various countries to jointly discuss the urgent issues of addressing global climate change. Credit: National Meteorological Center of CMA As an observer to UNFCCC and national first-class society dedicated to green development in China, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) will organize a delegation and actively participate in the discussions and exchanges at the conference, as well as contribute to the mitigation and adaptation of climate change with the wisdom and solutions of civil society in China. To ensure smooth participation in the conference, the Climate Change Working Group of the Green Society has been carefully preparing and organizing registration matters recently. On ...

From July 29 to August 1, 2023, the Academic Conference of "Ecological Restoration and Realization of Ecological Product Value in Cold and Arid Areas", which is also the 2023 Academic Annual Meeting of the Ecological Restoration Professional Committee of the China Ecological Economics Society was held in Zhangye City, Gansu Province. The meeting was co-hosted by the Gansu Association for Science and Technology, the CPC Zhangye Municipal Committee, the People's Government of Zhangye City, the Ecological Restoration Professional Committee of the China Ecological Economics Society, the Institute of Ecological Environment and Resources in Northwest of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hexi University, and co-organized by the Science and Technology Periodicals Society of Gansu Province, the Zhangye Development and Reform Commission, the Zhangye Ecological Environment Bureau, the Zhangye Forestry and Grassland Bureau, National Key Laboratory of Ecological Security and Susta...

July 29, 2023 is the annual World Tiger Day. On July 29 th , 2022, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) released  The Preliminary Report on Tiger Status in China. The report   shows that there are about 7,116 tigers in the Chinese territory, including four subspecies of tigers: Siberian tiger ( Panthera tigris ssp.altaica ), Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ), South China tiger ( Panthera tigris amoyensis ) and Indochinese tigers ( Panthera tigris ssp. corbetti ). Among these, 2,715 are in zoos, 3,744 are in specialized breeding facilities such as the Northeast Tiger Forest Park, Changchun Northeast Tiger Park and Bear Tiger Lodge, and 584 are in 34 circuses with artificial tiger breeding licenses in Suizhou, Anhui Province, which is known as a “Hometown to Circus”. There are also about 55 wild Siberian tigers distributed in Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, and 14-20 Indochinese tigers distributed in the wild in southwe...

Oriental Stork ( Ciconia boyciana ) is a kind of large wading bird, which is included in the National Fist-class Protected Animals. They like to make their homes high up, and transmission towers are their favorite. Based on the characteristics of Oriental Storks nesting in transmission towers and through field investigation in Qiqihar and Daqing, as well as interviews with volunteers and staff of power grid, Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, the general secretary of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), summarized the key factors for Oriental Storks to build nests and put forward corresponding suggestions for improvement. Why do Oriental Storks like to land on the transmission towers? 1. Some experts have found that Oriental Storks will land on the same tower for many years for they might have memories. However, they didn't come back to the artificial nests our volunteers built for them the next year. So Dr. Zhou does not think they are reusing...

Biodiversity is an important part of maintaining ecological balance and promoting the harmonious development of human and nature. The biodiversity conservation is of great significance to the survival and future development of human society. On July 26, 2023, the fourth session of the Standing Committee of the 14th People's Congress of Shandong Province passed the "Regulations on Biodiversity Conservation in Shandong Province " which will come into force on January 1st, 2024. Earlier, the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Provincial People's Congress has issued the "Regulations on Biodiversity Conservation in Shandong Province (draft)" and solicited public opinions. The Legal Working Committee of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) attached great importance to this and organized research and discussion, before putting forward a number of proposals for revision. In th...

On July 24th, 2023, Dr. ZHOU Jinfeng, Secretary General of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), visited Langxia Jiaoye Park of Shanghai to give a lecture for students from East China Normal University as the first on the series of “Natural Evolution and Future Life Discussion”. Centered on the theme of “Ecological Civilization: Eastern and Western Civilizations Reach the Same Destination via Different Routes”, Dr. Zhou introduced the concept and significance of ecological civilization and the path of building an ecological civilization in China to students from different majors. Taking Earth Overshoot Day as an example, he emphasized the severe crisis faced by the mankind and explained that biodiversity is the foundation of ecological civilization. Dr. Zhou believed that the building of ecological civilization in China has made some achievements, but there are still many issues that need to be updated, such as strengthening the awa...

2023 International Climate Conference of People Forum (ICCOP 2023), which is going to be held by China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) on September 3 rd , 2023, during 2023 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS). This conference aims to empower individuals and communities to actively participate in mitigating climate change and creating a sustainable future for all. The theme of this forum is “Environmental Services and Carbon Neutrality Goals”. Renewable energy systems, as a crucial component of environmental services, play a vital role in mitigating and adapting to climate change while also striving to achieve carbon neutrality goals. These systems encompass various sources of renewable energy such as solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and geothermal power. During ICCOP 2023, participants will engage in discussions regarding the exploring opportunities and strategies for investing in new energy systems, in order to foster collab...

  In response to CBD Notification 2023-071 - Invitation to review a draft of a proposed set of complementary actions (an updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation) related to plant conservation to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity, here's a suggestion:   【 On the Draft 】   Encourage open science and promote global sharing of monitoring information on invasive species shall be encouraged to aid developing countries in making science-based decisions and safeguarding ecological and food security. For instance, plant pests and diseases cause significant crop losses and have a major impact on global hunger annually. The research team led by Huang Wenjiang at the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation, continuously releases the latest data on monitoring and assessing locust plagues in Asia and Africa and the d...

  In response to CBD Notification 2023-071 - Invitation to review a draft of a proposed set of complementary actions (an updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation) related to plant conservation to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity, here's the first suggestion by the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) to the New Global Plant Conservation Strategy ： The New Global Plant Conservation Strategy shall provide information and legal assistance to jointly combat transnational wildlife crimes. Taking the example of the Clean Internet for Conophytum Initiative by the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), the aim is to protect the critically endangered Conophytum. The issue lies not in the absence of domestic plant conservation laws in China and South Africa, nor in the enforcement of CITES; the real problem is that officials from different countries need to collaborate to supp...

In order to actively promote the construction of ecological civilization in China, to highlight the high-quality achievements of ecological civilization in China in recent years with exemplary cases, vividly interprets the in-depth development of ecological civilization ideas, triggers comprehensive and in-depth thinking in the society, and promotes the effective implementation of ecological civilization from theory to practice, the Publicity Department of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) organized and carried out the compilation of Case Study for Ecological Civilization . As an important work of the Publicity Department of CBCGDF, the compilation of Case Study for Ecological Civilization will be carried out in two stages. In the first stage, proposed cases and topics were screened, the focuses of writing were determined, and the writing schedule of the book was clarified. The second stage of case collection is still in progress. All secto...

  July 26, 2023, in the morning of the fourth day of research. CBCGDF's arid area biodiversity research experts conducted an in-depth and fruitful discussion on the ecological restoration of water and soil erosion in Bayannur. In the afternoon, researchers drove from Bayannur to Minqin County, Gansu Province, more than 600 kilometers away. Along the way, the research experts found that the land vegetation had changed significantly: from a forest farm to a grassland, and then slowly to a desert with bare loess. Surface vegetation gradually became sparse, which may be caused by many factors such as drought and salinization.   Translator: Maggie Editor: Maggie Checked by: Daisy       Contact: v10@cbcgdf.org; +8617319454776 Contribution Do you know? CBCGDF is a non-profit organization. We rely on crowd-funding and donations. You have the opportunity to help us to advance biodiversity conservation. Donate TODAY to power up the movement to make it a bet...

  Jilin Province is located in the central part of Northeast China, with rich vegetation resources and numerous rivers and lakes. Jilin Province is one of the important passages for migratory birds in China. Recently, entrusted by the State Grid's "Migratory Bird Lifeline" project, the Research Office of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) sent researchers to Jilin to investigate the relationship between birds and powerlines.   The State Grid "Lifeline for Migratory Birds" project is a national public welfare project carried out by the State Grid Public Welfare Foundation and CBCGDF and other bird protection organizations, focusing on rare birds such as the oriental white stork and black-necked crane as the main protection objects. At present, the "Lifeline for Migratory Birds" project has successively carried out habitat research, volunteer training, patrolling and rescue work in 17 project sites.   Changling Coun...

On the morning of July 26, 2023, Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, Secretary General of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), and a delegation of State Grid Co., LTD., State Grid Public Welfare Foundation, and State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power Company went to Qiqihar City in Heilongjiang Province to carry out research work. The survey lasted for two days, mainly to deeply understand the nesting, distribution and living conditions of Oriental white storks around the main transmission lines in Qiqihar, to investigate the bird protection measures that have been taken in the current transmission lines, and to explore the effective path of harmonious coexistence between the powerlines and birds. On July 26, Dr. Zhou and others went to Zhalong National Nature Reserve for research. In Zhalong Reserve, they listened to the director of the reserve introduce the status quo of the reserve, visited the crane viewing platform of Zhalong Wetland, th...

The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA) had its 19 th regular session from July 17 to 21 in Rome. China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) was invited to participate the session as an observer. Credit: CBCGDF Media The establishment of a new intergovernmental technical working group on microorganism and invertebrate genetic resources (MIGR) was among the many important achievements of the session. Microorganisms play a vital role in soil bioremediation and nutrient cycling. They can help maintain the ecological balance of the soil, promote plant growth, and keep farmland healthy and fertile. In addition, microorganisms can also degrade harmful substances and improve the yield and quality of crops, thereby providing farmers with a more stable and sustainable source of income. Credit: CBCGDF Media Pollinators, in turn, play an integral role in the natural pest control and pollination of crops. The...