An environmental group has filed a lawsuit for 30 million yuan (U.S.$4.8 million) to seek compensation from a Shandong chemical company for pumping out harmful substances a legal action thought to be the first public interest litigation for air pollution under China’s new environmental law.On Wednesday, the Intermediate People’s Court in the Shandong city of Dezhou agreed to
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African, Chinese youth pledge support for biodiversity conservation
Xinhua
28 May 2021, 21:49 GMT+10
NAIROBI, May 28 (Xinhua) Dozens of youth from Africa and China have vowed to rally behind global efforts to conserve biodiversity that is reeling from a host of human and climate induced threats. The Chinese and African youth, who participated at a virtual forum convened by Nairobi-based African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and China s environmental non-governmental organization Friends of Nature, resolved to back initiatives that aimed to revitalize protection of habitats. Zhang Boju, director general of Friends of Nature, hailed continuous engagement by Chinese and African youth to promote conservation of ecosystems that underpin livelihoods.
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Court reprieve for China’s rare green peafowl but it’s not out of the woods yet The green peafowl was thought to be extinct in China. Photo: Weibo
A court in southwestern China has upheld a landmark lower-court ruling to suspend work on a massive hydropower project that environmentalists say would push the endangered green peafowl to extinction.
But the Yunnan Higher People s Court also dismissed an environmental group s formal legal bid to end the construction for good and permanently safeguard the habitat of a species that is rarer than the giant panda.
The green peafowl is China s only native peacock, with just 500 estimated to be left in the wild after decades of excessive hunting, loss of habitat, pesticide poisoning and deforestation.