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Protect the Biological Diversity
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As one of the first members of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), China has been an active participant in the CBD and put forward opinions on key issues for implementation. China is one of a few countries that completed the planned action by the pact in the world. The "Protection Action Plan of Biological Diversity of China", completed in 1994, regulates ecological environment protection activity. Under the "Wild Animal Protection Law", all crimes destroying wild animal resources and habitats will be penalized, with the most severe punishment being death.
Government offices pay great attention on the effective protection of biological resources. In January 2003, the China Science Academy advocated a project to save certain plant species being threatened by extinction. The project would also increase the number of plant species in 12 attached botanical gardens from 13,000 to 21,000 within 15 years and establish the largest botanical garden - 4.58 million square kilometers - in the world. The government has invested 300 million yuan in the project, which will also result in gene storerooms based in Qinling, Wuhan, Xishuangbanna and Beijing.
The project to save endangered animals is also showing early signs of success. 250 breeding centers for wild animals have been built in China and are helping to revive 7 species including the giant panda and crested ibis. Today there are over 1,000 wild giant pandas, regarded as "national treasure" and named "living fossil". As a result of this project, their living environment is also improving. The number of crested ibis has grown from 7 to about 250. There has been further success: nearly 10,000 Yangtze crocodiles are bred artificially, the number of Cervus eldi has increased from 26 to over 700, the number of larus relictus has risen from 2000 to more than 10,000, and rarely seen tigers also appear continuously in northeast, east and south of China. Due to the unremitting fight against thief hunting and the cooperation of many animal protection organizations in the international community, the Tibetan antelope has also seen resurgence. The number of antelope had declined sharply as a result of slaughter, but it has since stabilized around 70,000.
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