Conservation of Hainan’s Largest Tropical Forest -Yinggeling
China Programme
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The Rich Biodiversity in Yinggeling
Tropical Forest under Threat
As yet though, the forest remains subject to illegal hunting,
trapping, fishing, collection of non-timber forest products,
small-scale logging and slash-and-burn.
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Biodiversity Surveys in Yinggeling
• In 2005/06, three biodiversity surveys in Yinggeling Provincial Nature Reserve were conducted in collaboration with Chinese experts and the Hainan Wildlife Conservation Centre of the Hainan Provincial Forestry Department.
Exciting discoveries included a new species of plant (a Begonia sp. Herb), 11 species of plants and animals previously unrecorded in Hainan (including the tree frog Theloderma asperrum and several Herbs Carex spp.), 3 species new to China (including the orchid Nephelaphyllum pulchrum), many nationally protected species, as well as the Pale-capped Pigeon (Columba punicea), which had been unrecorded in Hainan for decades.
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Biodiversity Surveys in Yinggeling
Socio-economic Survey
• A preliminary socio-economic survey to understand the human population size (18,337 people in 103 villages) and distribution, and human use of natural resources, in the reserve area.
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Further Conservation Actions
• Initial discussions with representatives of certain communities, including those inside the reserve boundaries, exploring their development goals and considerations to ensure their interests are not compromised by reserve establishment.
• Agreement to fund
three of the first six
management stations,
to be built at strategic
locations around the
reserve.
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