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Original Articles

People and Pandas in Southwest China

Pages 156-188 | Published online: 16 Dec 2008
 

Notes

Hereafter referred to simply as China.

Zhang Zhihe, Director of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, 2006 Giant Panda Calendar.

In the year 2000 Conservation International designated 25 Global Biodiversity Hotspots, where the diversity of ecosystems, plants and animals is especially rich. The Mountains of Southwest China Biodiversity Hotspot covers Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan and includes the world's most biologically diverse temperate forest ecosystem. http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org

CEPF, Mountains of Southwest China Hotspot: Ecosystem Profile 1,6 (2002). http://www.cepf.net

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National Library of Medicine. Population of Sichuan Province. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The Great Western Development Policy (2000) is a Chinese government initiative to enable western provinces to catch up with economic development on the Eastern seaboard. http://www.gsinvest.com.cn/2003/

CEPF, supra note 5, at 11.

Personal communication. Zhang Liming, director of Wolong National Reserve administration (6 January 2006).

At August 2005 there are over 40 giant panda reserves in China. http://www.wwfchina.org

WWF China, supra note 11, at 3–4.

SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is attributed to human consumption of the meat of civet cats on sale in Chinese Wildlife markets in 2003. Department of Human Health. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars

Lawrence Glacy, China's Conservation Scheme: Protecting Species or Generating Profits? M.A. Thesis, Sonoma State University (2004), see also 5 China Environmental Series 69–73 (2002).

Geoffrey Murray & Ian G. Cook, The Greening of China 136–142 (2004).

Id. at 137.

Id. at 140.

Id. at 5.

Id. at 6.

Id. at 145.

Geoffrey Murray & Ian G. Cook, The Greening Of China 23 (2004).

Id. at 25–28.

Id. at 30.

Id. at 32.

Id. at 34.

6 Id. at 31.

Id. at 10.

Id. at 12.

Geoffrey Murray & Ian G. Cook, The Greening of China 127 (2004).

Id. at 12.

Id. at 15.

China Establishes over 1,700 Protected Areas, China Radio International, 9 September 2003.

Murray & Cook, supra note 29, at 147.

Conservation International, Chengdu. Personal comment Li Shengzhi July 7, 2005.

Murray & Cook, supra note 33, at 127 (2004).

Id. at 137.

Geoffrey Murray & Ian G. Cook, The Greening of China 22 (2004).

Tougher Wildlife Protection Law Underway, China Daily, 7 June 2004.

Id. “Currently in China “first-grade” animals are protected by the State and “second-grade” animals by the province or county. A single management system for nature reserves (as proposed by IUCN categorization) would coordinate relevant government departments” Zhang Dehui, Vice Director of the Division of Wildlife Management, under the Department of Fauna and Flora Conservation, in the State Forestry Administration.

Id.

Panda Primer: The Facts in Black and White. A December 2001Report from U.S. Embassy Beijing. http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/sandt/ptr/PandaPrimer.htm. At 2.

Id. at 2.

The Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China, (Article 9) pledges to protect rare animals and plants and bans any organization from destroying or trading in them.

Geoffrey Murray & Ian G. Cook, The Greening of China 12 (2004).

Lawrence Glacy, China's Nature Reserves: Protecting Species or Generating Profits? (unpub.), 10 (2002).

Id. at 14–16.

Id. at 20.

CEPF, Mountains of Southwest China Hotspot. Ecosystem Profile. 1,9 (2002). http://www.cepf.net

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Id. at 26.

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CEPF, Mountains of Southwest China Hotspot: Ecosystem Profile 1,20 (2002). http://www.cepf.net

China's State Forestry Administration announces it will use the CCB Standards. http://www.climate-standards.org/news/news-May2005-China.html

Lawrence Glacy, China's Nature Reserves: Protecting Species or Generating Profits? (unpub.), 11 (2002).

Panda Primer: The Facts in Black and White. A December 2001Report from U.S. Embassy Beijing. Available at http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/sandt/ptr/PandaPrimer.htm. at 2.

The Chinese Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA) (1983) is a semi-official organization affiliated with the State Forestry Administration and the China Association of Science and Technology.

Law Helps Raise Awareness of Wildlife Protection, Beijing Weekend, 12 November 2004.

Geoffrey Murray & Ian G. Cook, The Greening of China 33 (2004).

The Grain to Green (G2G) policy and National Natural Forest Protection Programme are valid 2000-2010 and are both administered by the State Forestry Administration.

CEPF, Mountains of Southwest China Hotspot:Ecosystem Profile 1,16 (2002). http://www.cepf.net

Murray & Cook, supra note 62, at 129.

CEPF, supra note 64, at 13.

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Id.

CI China, supra note 68.

Liu Jianguo & Sue Nichols, Where China Goes, the Rest Follow in the Global Neighbourhood, http://www.greengrants.org.cn

CEPF is a joint initiative of CI, GEF, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank.

CEPF, Mountains of Southwest China. http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/where-we-work/southwest-china/southwest

11th Five-Year Plan 2006-2010.

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Id. at 16.

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Id. at 207.

Agenda 21—White Paper on China's Population, Environment and Development in the 21st Century was compiled in the wake of the United National Conference on Environment and Development in 1992.

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Id.

China Moves to Save Endangered Wildlife, China Daily , 4 October 2004.

Id.

Lawrence Glacy, China's Nature Reserves: Protecting Species or Generating Profits? (unpub.), 29 (2002).

Geoffrey Murray & Ian G. Cook, The Greening of China 126 (2004).

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Conservation International. China Program. http://www.conservation.org

CEPF. Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. http://www.cepf.net

Id.

Lawrence Glacy, China's Nature Reserves: Protecting Species or Generating Profits? (unpub.) 27 (2002).

Id. at 28.

Id. at 30.

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Lawrence Glacy, China's Nature Reserves: Protecting Species or Generating Profits? (unpub.) 67 (2002).

CEPF, Mountains of Southwest China Hotspot: Ecosystem Profile 1, 20 (2002). http://www.cepf.net

China Establishes over 1,700 Protected Areas. China Radio International, 9 September 2003.

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D'Vera Cohn, Zoos Fnd Pandas Don't Make the Cash to Cover Their Keep, Washington Post, 7 August 2005. Some American zoos may want to renegotiate their loan agreements. http://www.washintonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/06/AR

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