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China to restore forest quality

June 11, 2021 CEN_com 0

China will moderately reduce the proportion of artificial forests and enhance the conservation and restoration of its degraded forests China’s efforts to implement afforestation and environmental schemes in recent years have met with considerable success, a fact reflected in the large increase in forest coverage nationwide.  However, the country is now switching from the emphasis on quantity-based greening to a more balanced approach, giving greater weight to the factor of […]

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Millions of birds face unexpected danger: glass buildings

June 11, 2021 CEN_com 0

In 2018, Shi Danyang, a student at Duke Kunshan University in east China’s Jiangsu Province, saw a tiny warbler with greenish feather majestically flying toward the glass window of her three-storied school building.  But instead of maneuvering, the bird hit the glass, making a gentle thumping sound and leaving behind a tiny mark on the window. Shocked by the bird’s poor navigation capabilities, she later learned that the warbler’s dead […]

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Asian black bears go to new home at Sichuan sanctuary

June 10, 2021 CEN_com 0

SICHUAN, Southwest China April 19th to May 27th 2021 101 bears were relocated from a former bile farm in Nanning, Guangxi province, to the Chengdu Bear Rescue Center in Sichuan province. China lists the Asian black bear as a Class II protected species, meaning it’s illegal to hunt, kill, or sell them. However, the population of wild Asian black bears, which are native to forests across southern and eastern China, has fallen due to illegal hunting and habitat loss, according […]

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Tribute to the XJP Founder: Dennis Etler (1947-2021)

June 9, 2021 CEN_com 0

By Luciana Bohne, with Rebecca Chan and 3 others.  With what words to mourn Dennis Etler, who died so suddenly and unexpectedly on 3 June 2021? As his moderators on the page, Xi Jinping–China’s Exceptional President, we are at a loss to express our sadness at the passing of the founder. We, therefore, seek solace in remembering and honoring his thought, life, and work.  The sheer scope of Dennis’ interest in China, past […]

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Marxism and the Origins of the Ecological Critique

June 8, 2021 CEN_com 0

John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2020) shows the role played by biologists and other scientists with a non-mechanistic, materialist outlook, alongside various Marxists, in laying the foundations of ecology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. John Bellamy Foster’s book The Return of Nature picks up where the author left off 20 years ago in Marx’s Ecology, which, as the title indicates, addresses the […]

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All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask

June 8, 2021 CEN_com 0

Alexander Norton interviews Scottish writer Keith Lamb, who has lived and taught in China for two decades. Keith Lamb is a University of Oxford graduate with a MSc degree in Contemporary Chinese studies and works as a translator of academic texts. His primary research interests are China’s international relations. He talks about his experience of how China’s socialist system measures up to the expectations of a Western socialist expat who […]

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Ecological civilisation & the materialist concept of history

June 8, 2021 CEN_com 0

“The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature….Human beings can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion or anything else you like. They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of […]

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RIP comrade Dennis Etler

June 7, 2021 CEN_com 0

In Remembrance of Prof. Dennis Etler who died of heart attack on June 3rd 2021 It is with true sadness that we have learned of the unexpected passing of our friend and comrade, Dennis Etler. The following was posted Jerry Brown on the Facebook account of the Xi Jinping – China’s Exceptional President group (founded by Dennis 8 years ago). Death Of A Comrade Death must not find us thinking that we […]

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UPDATE ON CHINA ENVIRONMENT NEWS (CEN) ACCESSIBILITY

June 5, 2021 CEN_com 0

In the past week Facebook has blocked and removed many posts by the Group Admins – some without explanation and now for being “spam”. It appears that today Facebook is blocking any repost from, or link to, VK as “spam”. Please note that we have 3 locations for accessing CEN. This minimises the chance that our site can be blocked. Our sites are: Our WEBSITE: https://china-environment-news.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2516109708443374 VK: https://vk.link/chinaenvironment