BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- China has greatly supported and contributed to protecting biodiversity and its philosophy of ecological civilization is "critical for all countries to achieve the global biodiversity goals," a United Nations (UN) official has said.
KUNMING, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- The black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys, also known as Yunnan golden hair monkeys, are enjoying a peaceful life in their traditional habitat in southwest China.
A total of 27 rare milu deer have been released back into the wild at the Daqingshan Nature Reserve in north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region in an effort to improve their living environment. (Photo/People's Daily APP) At a later stage, the released deer will be required to wear Beidou GPS positioning collars, so as to have their activities and migratory trajectories more accurately monitored.
Chinese plant researchers recently discovered a new population of rare species derived from the Berberidaceae plant family in the Longling county of Baoshan city, southwest China's Yunnan Province. It is a new species that was first described by a British Berberis expert in 1942 according to specimens collected by Chinese plant taxonomist Yu Dejun in Yongde county (formerly known as Shunning county), Lincang city, Yunnan, four years earlier, explained Tan Yunhong, a researcher with the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
