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China welcomes WWF, carmaker to Sanjiangyuan environmental program

Xinhua, November 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve, which will become China's first national park by 2020, has engaged the WWF and a Chinese car maker to be involved in protection work.

Li Xiaonan, chief of the administrative bureau of Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve, said Monday that the bureau had signed cooperation deals with the WWF and Guangzhou Automobile Group. Co. Ltd. (GAC Group).

The central government hopes to make Sanjiangyuan, home to the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Lancang (Mekong) rivers, as a model of "effective environmental protection and harmony between nature and humanity."

Li said under the cooperation agreements, WWF will partner with the park on research, resource survey, environmental monitoring and training. While GAC Group will donate vehicles to be used to patrol the vast protection area and support the park's environmental campaigns.

China named Sanjiangyuang a nature reserve in 2005. About 100,000 herders left the grassland completely around that time and another 700,000 reduced their herds to help restore the grassland.

Beginning in April, the park has been expanding its staff, it will need to hire 10,000 wardens to patrol over 120,000 square kilometers, an area bigger than the U.S. state of New York. Endi