China has made great strides in protecting the environment and maintaining biodiversity in the past decades. Cases of population restoration of species such as giant pandas, Asian elephants, and snow leopards are familiar to people around the world. However, there are still many stories of rare wildlife species that are yet to be shared.
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China's flora occupies a unique place in global plant diversity as it consists of about 38,000 "higher plants" (those able to grow to a large size), Sun Weibang, director of the Kunming Botanical Garden in Yunnan province, said.
Combo photo taken on Oct. 10, 2021 shows a sample of Manglietiastrum sinicum collected by researchers in the wild (L) and a transplanted Manglietiastrum sinicum plant growing in the Kunming Botanical Garden in Kunming, southwest China s Yunnan Province. Kunming Botanical Garden has built a garden featuring Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations (PSESP) since 2015. Currently, a total of 44 rare target species have been transplanted into the garden under protection efforts.