China introduced an ambitious conservation plan that would set aside 23 percent of the nation as protected land and commit state funds for habitat preservation, as a UN conference on biodiversity opened. The Chinese proposal would designate 52 priority conservation areas and sets a target date of 2020 for controlling species loss. In Sichuan province, the plan includes the protection of existing reserves for giant pandas and offsetting the effects of dam construction. “If China can implement this plan systematically, then they will be managing better than any other country,” said Matthew Durnin, a Nature Conservancy scientist who helped draft the strategy.
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