As part of the 2014 National Science and Technology week, on May 17, 2014 staff at the Kunming Museum of Natural History worked alongside personnel from the Ministry of Science and the China Association for Science to host the tenth annual “Public Science Day”celebration, focused around this year’s theme of “RealizingYou Dreams”.

The event brought in over 1,000 people from across the community, including many students from local primary schools who attended the opening of the Museum’s new cinema that showed films on wetlands and the living habits of Black-Necked Cranes, highlighting the need for involving Chinese youth in furthering the conservation of rare and endangered habits and animals. 

Courtesy of the State key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution as well as the Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Diseases, admission to the museum was provided free of charge, in hopes that the public could learn more about how the efforts of conservationists, natural history museums, and researchers, such as those at the Kunming Institute of Zoology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have contributed to the progress that truly embodies the idea of how scientific and technological innovation can help make dreams of a better life and healthier environment possible.

(By Andrew Willden)