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The new Silk Road construction, also WWF has also warned that the routes
known as the One Belt One Road (OBOR) overlap with about 2000 key
initiative, is the largest economic biodiversity areas and 50 biodiversity
development in the world. The OBOR hotspots. Most of these worries are
project will stretch across 65 nations, located at the China-Pakistan
connecting East Asia, Central Europe and Economic Corridor (CPEC). The
East Africa. The project costs about $8 corridor connects the Pakistani coast
trillion and is set to be completed in 2049. to Xinjiang, China. A currently
OBOR is made up of two components: the
existing deep-water port installed in
Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st
Century Maritime Silk Road. The main
Gwadar, The Arabian sea is
objective of OBOR is to link China to the undergoing improvements to ship 1.4
rest of the world using railways, roads, oil billion oil barrels to China in half the
pipelines, power plants, deep-water ports time it used to take.
and utility grids (electricity generators
such as wind turbines, water turbines); to
facilitate faster trading and increase
transport efficiency.
GIANT PANDA
Conservation efforts in China have
downgraded the Giant Panda status
from endangered to vulnerable on the
IUCN Red List. The wild population
grew 17% between 2004 and 2014.
Science, political will and especially
the local communities were credited
for the increase in the giant panda
population.
Conservation efforts in China seem to have paid off, but with their rapid economic
growth, more work is needed to protect their rich biodiversity and relieve what they
have lost.