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Article: Yunnan to Pass China's First Law on Protecting Rare Trees
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 10, 1995
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Yunnan Province in southwest China has worked out a regulation,
the first of its kind in the country, to protect rare trees that will
go into effect December 1.
Referred to as "Regulation on Protecting Rare Trees in Yunnan
Province", the law is to give special protection or to allow for
reasonable exploitation of rare trees.
Located in a subtropical part of China, Yunnan has a climate with
temperate and frigid-temperate zones, and has tropical rain forests
and mountainous grassy marshland, rich in valuable tree resources.
The regulation says that forestry departments will oversee the
administration and protection of the trees with the help of
industrial and commercial, ...