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| With a known population of only 110 individuals, the cao vit gibbon, also names eastern black crested gibbon, is one of the rarest ape species in the world, second only to its closest relative, the Hainan gibbon. In 1960s’, they were considered distinct, but was rediscovered along the northern border of Vietnam in 2002. According to an updated survey conducted by the research team of Fauna and... more |
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| January, 2013, on the website of Fauna & Flora international，Dr. Tony Whitten (Fauna & Flora International’s Asia-Pacific regional director) posted a story about his experience of attending the symposium regarding karst and cave biodiversity of southern China. In his story, Dr. Whitten not only described how successful this cave diversity project was, but also expressed his concern of environ... more |
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| Tanzeel Huma Anwar of theState Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), recently published a review on the growing impact of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in the Pakistani Medical Reviews, illustrating the growing problems raised by the rise in Alzheimer’s as one of the most common forms of dementia afflicting aging popu... more |
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| Visitors to China can hardly miss the quintessential ponds of goldfish that dot the landscapes temples, public parks, and buildings across the country. Indeed, goldfish have been an aesthetic component of religious landscaping in China at least since the first written records of their use in the Tsin Dynasty (265–419 A.D.), well before the fish was transferred to Japan in the sixteenth century... more |
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| Worldwide, there are 80,000-130,000 recognized mollusk species, and approximately 5% of them live in freshwater. These extensively diversified invertebrate animals compose the large phylum Mollusca. Although the mollusks could be found in various habitats and have their own characteristic behaviors, but one thing them have in common is the sensitivities to environments. As an environmental indi... more |
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