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Article: Scientists sign up biodiversity conservation program in Three Gorges area
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 20, 2005
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Scientists sign up biodiversity conservation program in Three
Gorges area
CHONGQING, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Botanists from the Chinese Academy
of Sciences have signed up a biodiversity program that aims to
protect rare plants and expand vegetation in the Three Gorges area.
Experts say the cooperation between CAS Institute of Botany in
Beijing and the Three Gorges botanical garden in southwest China's
Chongqing Municipality will provide a theoretical basis for
preserving biodiversity in the Three Gorges area, which is known as a
natural gene bank for China's rare plants and animal species.
The two sides have agreed to carry out joint researches on
biodiversity and environment protection in ...