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An assessment report on the endangered status of primates in China was released on Tuesday, indicating that the white-handed gibbon and northern white-cheeked gibbon have not been seen in the wild in the past few decades, meeting the criteria for being declared extinct in the wild.
China expressed a strong ambition to further strengthen biodiversity protection at the first global meeting convened by the UN on ecological civilization on Monday, and analysts who highlighted China s achievements in and contributions to the global biodiversity agenda believe many of China s practices, such as its ecological red line program, could help the world better achieve post-2020 targets for biodiversity conservation.
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By Global Times Published: May 06, 2021 10:21 PM
Giant pandas play after snow at Shenshuping base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve, southwest China s Sichuan Province, Dec. 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
Wild giant pandas have prospered in a national park in Southwest China s Sichuan Province and their population has increased to 149 from 104 in 2015, based on DNA analysis of the pandas that have been spotted.
The giant panda national park in Wolong, Sichuan, is the first conservation agency in China to apply DNA technology in tracing wild pandas, Li Sheng, a researcher from the School of Life Sciences at Peking University, told China Central Television.