Netizen Voices: Official Tries to Manage Bird Evolution
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
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LatestProtecting China’s Animals in the Monkey Year
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
The Chinese Used to Think Pandas Were Monsters
At Foreign Policy, Alexa Olesen describes the shift in Chinese views of pandas from metal-eating...
China “Main Destination” For Illegal Chimpanzee Trade
China’s central role in the global black market in ivory and other wildlife products has...
Rubber Boom Threatens Yunnan’s Elephant Haven
While Chinese demand for ivory threatens Africa’s elephants, Yunnan’s 300 Asian...
Kenya Extradites Alleged Ivory Kingpin to China
The AP reports on the apprehension and extradition of an alleged Chinese ivory smuggler in Kenya...
“Shark Slaughterhouse” Exposed in Zhejiang
After a four-year investigation, Hong Kong-based conservation group WildLifeRisk has exposed what...
China’s Six-Ton Ivory Crush Debated
The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer reports on the destruction of more than six tons of...
New Regs Could Increase Wild Animal Exploitation
The New York Times reports that wildlife management regulations proposed in China may actually...
Yellow-Breasted Bunting ‘Endangered’
South China Morning Post reports that China’s now endangered yellow-breasted bunting...
Shark Fin Victory May Offer Hope for Elephants
On the China in Africa Podcast, Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden and Huang Hongxiang gloomily...
Siberian Tigers Making a Comeback in China
Once nearly extinct in China, the Siberian tiger is making a comeback. The population of Siberian...
Who’s Protecting Endangered Species in China?
Research sponsored by wildcat protection group Panthera shows that the endangered snow leopard has...
Monks Protect Snow Leopards; Restaurateur Saves Turtle
Amid frequent bad news about wildlife issues in and involving China, LiveScience’s Tia Ghose...
China’s Tallest Dam Gets Environmental Green Light
At The Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman reports the approval by Chinese environmental officials of a proposed 314-meter-tall dam despite fears about its effects on the ecology of Sichuan’s Dadu River, an indirect tributary of the...
Pandas Survive Quake, But Some Face Other Threats
Xinhua reports that the 61 giant pandas at the Bifengxia breeding center were not physically harmed by the 6.6Mw earthquake that struck Sichuan province on Saturday, killing 193 and injuring over 12,000: According to the video...
Three Gorges Dam at Full Capacity
The Three Gorges Dam’s 32nd and final generator went into full operation for the first time on Wednesday, finally bringing the dam to maximum capacity almost 20 years after the project started. From the AFP: “The full...
China Fuels Resurgent Ivory Poaching
Ivory poaching in Africa, fuelled in large part by Chinese consumers, is reaching a scale not seen since the 1980s. The amount seized last year, twice as much as in 2010, suggests the killing of at least 2,500 elephants, but...
