President of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado Quesada speaks via video at the leaders' summit of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) held in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Oct. 12, 2021.
Peter Mortimer, a South African researcher who works at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan province, has contributed the achievements he made over the course of the previous decade to support China's rich biodiversity resources as well as related scientific research. Mortimer first set foot in Kunming 11 years ago during a graduation trip, and from then on, decided to stay there.
A 68-year-old former Swiss diplomat with the Chinese name of Laobo has spent 18 years making great achievements in China -- he created a rich tropical forest covering an area of 26 mu (1.73 hectares) within his B&B in the Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan province.
Zhao Yingmin, vice minister of China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment, presides over the closing ceremony of the Ecological Civilization Forum of the first part of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Oct. 15, 2021.
