China Takes Action to Halt Looming "Biodiversity Crisis"


BGCI: The global network Our work Our supporters and partners Join in Resource centre Education centre Climate change information centre PlantSearch GardenSearch Sign up to our newsletter:	BGCI Worldwide > China Takes Action to Halt Looming "Biodiversity Crisis" China Takes Action to Halt Looming "Biodiversity Crisis" With its remarkable diversity of wild flora under threat from explosive economic growth, this week China announces a radical new ‘National Strategy for Plant Conservation’. Coming in the face of what scientists are calling a “burgeoning ecological crisis”, this landmark strategy aims to halt China’s continuing loss of plant diversity, helping safeguard the future of some 5,000 threatened plant species. The plan brings together 3 state agencies - for the first time - to create a uniquely coordinated, ‘whole country’ approach to plant conservation in China. Downloads Press Release - Word Doc (406 KB) Summary of the Strategy - Word Doc (1.3 MB) Promotional leaflet - PDF (246 KB) Photo Gallery What We Do BGCI China BGCI Projects in China BGCI has been working with botanic gardens for plant diversity in China for the past five years, under the auspices of HSBC's Investing in Nature programme. Read more... Find Out More East Asia Botanic Gardens Network This webpage presents the EABG proposal in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and English; seeks comments on it; provides links to all relevant East Asia botanic garden websites, and provides the 2010 targets for botanic gardens in relation to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. Flora of China Online Efloras brings together electronic floras into an online interface. Users can browse online floristic treatments by volume, family, and genus, and can search by name, distributional data, and text. With the use of web forms, editors and authors with permissions can correct and update the data.	Related Gardens Wuhan Botanic Garden China - Hubei - Wuchang Journal Articles Ex situ Conservation of Wild Plants in Beijing Botanical Garden, China July 1993 Related News Conservation Strategists Meet for Plant Protection in China 17th March 2008 China Launches "Mammoth" Plan to Halt Biodiversity Crisis 4th July 2007 Plants2010 The Global Partnership for Plant Conservation brings together international, regional and national organisations in order to contribute to the implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC). This site is full of resources for anyone wanting to help meet the targets.