China Environment Forum 中国环境论坛

“China’s coastlines are important for protecting birds across the continent,” including Jiangsu Province’s Spoon-billed Sandpiper, says @larsonchristina from @AP. Rose Niu from @PaulsonInst adds that China is working with South Korea to protect species in the Yellow Sea.

“Accessing accurate environmental maps is not easy in China, especially for foreign NGOs,” says Rose Niu from @PaulsonInst, describing the challenges small organizations face working on conservation in #China.

“Around half of local environmental NGOs have the capacity to get involved on project environmental impact assessments, but only a few have the ability to get involved in the planning phase of national park development,” says Boju Zhang from @FON_CHINA.

The use of animal parts for traditional #Chinese medicine has been questioned by younger generations, but the ban doesn’t cover many marine species yet,” says Zhuoshi Lou from @ELIORG. This issue has received much more attention because of the Coronavirus.

“There is a real need for more central control over national parks in #China,” rather than control by local or provincial governments. This can create a more robust system to go after illegal operations in these parks, says Rudy D’Alessandro from @NPSInternation.

“Protecting livelihoods of local people and visitor management will be #China’s largest challenges to establishing a national park system,” says Rose Niu from @PaulsonInst.

The largest challenge to establishing #China’s national park system will be environmental enforcement, since the Ministry of Ecology and the Environment is one of the weakest government ministries, says Zhuoshi Liu from @ELIORG.

Transparency is a big issue to #China’s new national park system, so that local communities and NGOs can communicate with the Chinese government on environmental preservation and biodiversity efforts, says @larsonchristina from @AP.