SW. China province launches wildlife protection program.

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SW. China province launches wildlife protection program.

 

02/03/2003

Xinhua News Agency

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KUNMING, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) - Southwest China's Yunnan Province has

launched a 10-year program to protect local wildlife diversity,

according to the provincial forestry department.

 

The program, to cost 2.55 billion yuan (307 million US dollars), is

mainly aimed at rescuing 15 endangered species like the tiger, golden

monkey, orchid and cycad.

Yunnan covers merely one 25th of the country's total territory of 9.6

million square kilometers, but the province has 15,000 kinds of

high-level plants and 327 kinds of rare animals.

 

Under the program, the province will try to expand the acreage of local

nature reserves from the present 6 percent to 8 percent of the total

local territory by 2010.

 

Moreover, the province plans to set up 190 stations to monitor

 

the wildlife and 15 bird monitoring points.

 

The opening of eight rare animal breeding centers or rescue

 

stations are also included in the program.

 

 

 

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