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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

Facebook censorship — A US capitalist oligarch’s futile vendetta to silence anti-imperialist voices

June 5, 2021 CEN_com 0

Intense restoration of nature needed to address climate, biodiversity and food insecurity crises: UN

June 4, 2021 CEN_com 0

Facing the triple threat of climate change, loss of nature and pollution, the world must deliver on its commitment to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land in the next decade—an area about the size of China. Countries also need to add similar commitments for oceans, according to a new report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), launched […]

WHO asks for re-checks of Italian research on possible new Covid-19 virus origin

June 4, 2021 CEN_com 0

Antibodies to Covid-19 detected in blood collected in Italy in October 2019 during a lung cancer screening trial Samples from a study suggesting that COVID-19 was circulating outside China by October 2019 have been re-tested at the World Health Organization’s request, a Reuters report quoted two scientists leading the research as saying on Tuesday. While COVID-19 was first identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, a […]