KFBG Blog: China Eco Tales
Say Hi to Hainan Gibbon!
By Maggie Fok Assistant Administration Officer of Kadoorie Conservation ChinaThis was the first time for me to conduct a field survey with our team since joining Kadoorie Conservation China (KCC) ...
Can Plants Flower and Pollinate Underwater?
Aquatic plants lose out on the variety of pollination mediums compared to the majority of their terrestrial counterparts. Without the assistance of bees, birds, bats, and wind to bring the pollens fr...
Why are otters being overlooked in China?
Written by Li Fei, Conservation Officer of Kadoorie Conservation ChinaSince joining Kadoorie Conservation China (KCC), a department of KFBG, four years ago, I've been assigned to conducting research ...
Farmers Joined Hands in Conserving the Hainan Gibbon
Gibbons swinging through towering trees in tropical rainforest, to many of us, maybe a scene only appears in wildlife documentaries. The gibbons are so distant from us that their survival appears to ...
Concerted effort to save the Hainan Eld’s Deer
Bangxi is a tiny nature reserve on Hainan Island, yet it is one of the last refuges for Eld's Deer (Rucervus eldii) in China. In China, Eld's Deer is found nowhere else but Hainan, and is a Class I K...
Vibrant Wildlife of Gaoligongshan
Gaoligongshan is located in western Yunnan Province bordering Myanmar, extending from the Tibetan Plateau in the north to Indochina in the south, and is the watershed of the Irrawaddy River and the S...
New amphibian species discovered in Yunnan’s Gaoligongshan
Ever since zoologist John Anderson's first expedition to Tengchong in 1867, Gaoligongshan has attracted generations of herpetologists home and abroad. Many new amphibian species were first discovered...
Working with local people, KCC bolsters the future of Hainan Gibbons
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group named 2015 the ‘Year of the Gibbon', with an aim to focus efforts from all s...
Guangxi’s aeroplane bird adds six new babies
It was a glorious moment when the female oriental pied hornbill broke the seal on her nest and, with the male hornbill standing guard nearby, she emerged, followed by her two fledglings one early morn...
A new species of Gecko with olive green eyes is named after the Kadoorie brothers
Fig. 1 & 2. The new species of gecko, Kadoories' Cave Gecko (Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum) A new species of large gecko, discovered by a team from Kadoorie Conservation China Department (KCC) in G...