TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating and updating wildlife conservation in China
AU - GONG, Shiping
AU - WU, Jun
AU - GAO, Yangchun
AU - FONG, Jonathan
AU - PARHAM, James Ford
AU - SHI, Haitao
N1 - This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31471966; 31772486), the Biodiversity Survey, Observation and Assessment Programme of Ministry of Ecology and Environment (2019–2023), the thousand PhD program of Guangdong Academy of Sciences (2018GDASCX-0932), and the GDAS Special Project of Science and Technology Development (2018GDASCX-0107).
PY - 2020/8/17
Y1 - 2020/8/17
N2 - China has about 11% of the world's total wildlife species, so strengthening China's wildlife conservation is of great significance to global biodiversity. Despite some successful cases and conservation efforts, 21.4% of China's vertebrate species are threatened by human activities. The booming wildlife trade in China has posed serious threat to wildlife in China and throughout the world, while leading to a high risk of transmission of infectious zoonotic diseases. China's wildlife conservation has faced a series of challenges, two of which are an impractical, separated management of wildlife and outdated protected species lists. Although the Wildlife Protection Law of China was revised in 2016, the issues of separated management remain, and the protected species lists are still not adequately revised. These issues have led to inefficient and overlapping management, waste of administrative resources, and serious obstacles to wildlife protection. In this article, we analyze the negative effects of current separated management of wildlife species and outdated protected species lists, and provide some suggestions for amendment of the laws and reform of wildlife management system. Gong and colleagues analyse the state of wildlife management in China and make suggestions for better integration of management efforts.
AB - China has about 11% of the world's total wildlife species, so strengthening China's wildlife conservation is of great significance to global biodiversity. Despite some successful cases and conservation efforts, 21.4% of China's vertebrate species are threatened by human activities. The booming wildlife trade in China has posed serious threat to wildlife in China and throughout the world, while leading to a high risk of transmission of infectious zoonotic diseases. China's wildlife conservation has faced a series of challenges, two of which are an impractical, separated management of wildlife and outdated protected species lists. Although the Wildlife Protection Law of China was revised in 2016, the issues of separated management remain, and the protected species lists are still not adequately revised. These issues have led to inefficient and overlapping management, waste of administrative resources, and serious obstacles to wildlife protection. In this article, we analyze the negative effects of current separated management of wildlife species and outdated protected species lists, and provide some suggestions for amendment of the laws and reform of wildlife management system. Gong and colleagues analyse the state of wildlife management in China and make suggestions for better integration of management efforts.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.080
DO - 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.080
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
C2 - 32810445
SN - 0960-9822
VL - 30
SP - R915-R919
JO - Current Biology
JF - Current Biology
IS - 16
ER -