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Article: Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West.(Book review)
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- Journal of East Asian Studies
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West. By Richard B. Harris. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2007. 341 pp. $74.95 (cloth).
Richard Harris assesses modern China's wildlife policy and in doing so evaluates the administrative schemes, perceptions, laws, key species, and science that inform its conservation system. The book is intended for China scholars and wildlife enthusiasts who wish to benefit from a wildlife biologist's insights as well as his proposals to rectify key issues in China's wildlife conservation policy and management. While the vast majority of the research in this work relates to western China, the policy and ...