China to help Mongolia in Gobi bear protection
China to help Mongolia in Gobi bear protection.
China to help Mongolia in Gobi bear protection. An agreement has been reached on implementing a Gobi bear conservation project. The agreement aims to protect Gobi bears living in western Mongolia's Great Gobi conservation area, which is their only habitat on the earth. Under the agreement, in the coming three years, the Chinese government will provide assistance in scientific research in Gobi bear's population and environment assessment, promoting the level of management of the Great Gobi conservation area, and providing necessary equipment and material supplies. Experts from the Chinese Academy of Forestry have spent eight days in collecting habitat area information and learning Gobi bear conservation practices through an on-the-spot investigation across the 18,000-square-kilometer core habitat of Gobi bear in the Great Gobi conservation area in Mongolia. Gobi bears, first found in the 1920s near Altai mountain range in western Mongolia, are listed as critically endangered in the Mongolian Redbook of Endangered Species and are on the verge of extinction because of global climate change. The latest survey showed that there are only more than 20 Gobi bears left in the Great Gobi conservation area.
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