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Article: Experts Call for Protection of Tropical Forest
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 22, 1995
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A Chinese academic has called for protection of the remaining
tropical forests in southwest China's Yunnan Province, which have
been greatly reduced in size over the past several decades, today's
"Chinese Science News" has reported.
The newspaper quoted Wang Wencai, an academic with the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, as saying that tropical forest coverage in
Xishuangbanna in Yunnan has dropped to 30 percent, from 60 percent in
the 1950s, and is continuing to shrink at a rate of 250,000 mu (about
16,600 ha) each year.
China has a limited amount of tropical forests, located in various
parts of the south, in Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, and Yunnan
provinces, and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous ...