A worldwide activity to collect short videos on the topic of biodiversity protection, which was proposed prior to the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) and launched on June 9, received over 10,000 entries displaying the beauty of the Earth’s biodiversity. The COP15 Global Short Video Collection Activity was devised with the theme of “guarding a diverse world and building a common homeland on Earth.
Folk artists perform during the opening ceremony of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Oct. 11, 2021.
The Qilian Mountain National Park in northwest China’s Qinghai province is home to more and more rare wild animals such as snow leopards, which are under first-class state protection in the country, thanks to intensified ecological protection efforts in recent years. At the end of 2020, there were 252 species of wild vertebrates living in the park in Qinghai, including 20 under first-class state protection and 51 under second-class state protection in China.
The State Council Information Office (SCIO) on Oct. 8 issued a white paper titled Biodiversity Conservation in China, three days before the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the U.
