Stephen Young and a gathering of the first dozen groups who received micro-grants (credit: Stephen Young).
These two projects were initiated by NGOs with the specific purpose of benefiting wildlife – the chimpanzees and their forest home in Tanzania, the migratory birds and their wetlands habitat in China. Together they illustrate the need to improve the lives of the local people, in order to protect nature.
When, in 1960, I arrived at Gombe National Park to study the chimpanzees there, lush forest stretched for miles along the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika and inland as far as the eye could see. Gradually, over the years, growing populations of local people swollen by refugees, struggling to eke out an existence, cut Read More
This restoration project was initiated with the specific purpose of benefiting wildlife—the migratory birds and their wetlands habitat in China. To me, it illustrates the need to improve the lives of the local people in order to protect nature.
The Cao Hai Nature Reserve in China’s southwestern Guizhou Province is a wetland area with a Read More
