Thumbnail Image

Dongting Lake Newsletter, July 2019 - Issue #1

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Bangkok, Thailand ;

Pages 5

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Newsletter

Series title Newsletters from the Decentralized Offices

Series number 1

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This newsletter gives an overview of the project progress covering January to June in 2018, which has made good achievements. A series of policies and regulations are being developed including the river chief and lake chief system, Dongting lake national park plan etc. The biodiversity data of Dongting lake has been updated, and the construction of integrated information system has started. The capacity of staff of NRs has been strengthened through various training activities, and management plan of NRs has been developed. Biodiversity conservation has been integrated into different key sectors. The ceremony of "2018 Hunan bird flying" was launched in March with over 300 participants to raise the public awareness on bird protection. And the General Secretary Xi Jinping visited one monitoring site in April and gave praise to the conservation work.

Cite this content as:

FAO.2019. Newsletter of GEF043 Dongting Lake Project. June 2019 (1). Beijing. CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Language English

Also available in:
No results found.

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.

  • Thumbnail Image
    Newsletter
    Dongting Lake Newsletter, July 2020 - Issue #5 2020
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    This Newsletter gives an quarterly brief on the FAO-GEF Dongting Lake Project which aims at strengthening the protect efforts in that region. It illustrates major project progress in terms of management and public engagement. Most of the regular project activities has been going steadily, with a few highlights in training and capacity builidng. Other major events communicated in this newsletter includes the protection effort for flagship specie and the perfecting of legal system under the joint effort of FAO and PMO.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Project
    Project News: Securing Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use in Dongting Lake Protected Areas, July 2020 - Issue #6 2020
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    The Project News gives an quarterly brief on the FAO-GEF Dongting Lake Project which aims at strengthening the protect efforts in that region. It illustrates major project progress in terms of management and public engagement. Most of the regular project activities has been going steadily, with a few highlights in training and capacity builidng. Other major events communicated in this newsletter includes the protection effort for flagship specie and the perfecting of legal system under the joint effort of FAO and Project Management Office.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Newsletter
    Poyang Lake Newsletter, July 2020 - Issue #5
    Piloting provincial-level wetland PA system in Jiangxi Province
    2020
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    This Newsletter gives an overview of the project progress covering January to March 2020 as well as a regular update on project management in project site Jiangxi Province, China. Major project activities in the covered quarter has mostly focused on collecting data and raising public awareness about the significance of multiplying protection efforts in Poyang lake area. Traing and education activities were separately given to local residents and pupils through various channels including the distribution of public communication materials and field-trip with hand-in-hand trainging workshops organized for the participants. Surveys regarding the public cognition on wildlife and wetland protection were simultaneously carried out by experts working for the project, and came up with good-quality data. As to project management, meeting with the staff and stakeholders were still ongoing online due to the inconvenience brought by the pandemic.
Show more

Users also downloaded

Showing related downloaded files

No results found.