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Countries Appendix CHINA (14.0%) 2004 Update: China's Environment: Will Pollution Undermine Economic Growth In the last decade of reform, China has made impressive headway in protecting and improving its environment. Massive reforestation projects, including the planting of 10 billion trees during the 1980s, have resulted in 38.3 million hectares of man-made forest. Improvements in peasant energy sources has resulted in a decline in collection of fuelwood from forests. China has two major regions of natural tropical forest: Hainnan Island and Xishuangbanna in the Yunnan Province. The Hainan Province is home to China's only tropical rainforest which contains 25% of China's mammal diversity and 33% of the country's bird diversity. The rainforest has been plagued by poaching (rampant throughout the country) and collection of fuelwood in the past, though today tougher restrictions, along with reforestation projects offer a glimmer of hope for these diverse forests. The bulk of China's tropical timber comes from plantations in Yunnan and on Hainan Island. . . . . . For current information I highly recommend trying the CIA and FAO links below. |
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