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Abstract

Other agency changes include expanding the office that oversees intellectual property, creating a ministry of ecological environment to monitor pollution and forming a conservation agency to help in the protection of endangered species, such as the Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii). [...]in Qinghai province in central China, the forestry administration has tried to remove fences in grasslands to link up isolated Przewalski's gazelle populations at the same time as the agriculture ministry has funded the construction of new fences. [...]the pangolin population has plummeted because of illegal hunting for traditional Chinese medicine and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) now lists it as critically endangered.

Details

Title
China creates grand science ministry
Author
Cyranoski, David
Pages
425-426
Section
IN FOCUS NEWS
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Mar 22, 2018
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
ISSN
00280836
e-ISSN
14764687
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2017932500
Copyright
Copyright Nature Publishing Group Mar 22, 2018