HEFEI, May 6 (Xinhua) --
Global Environment Facility (GEF), an
international financing institution for
environmental protection, has donated 2.72
million U.S. dollars to help
conserve biodiversity on Mount Huangshan
in east China.
The government
of Huangshan city, Anhui Province,
will provide an auxiliary fund of
10.98 million U.S. dollars for the
biodiversity protection program covering the
mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage
Site, as well as several other
national and provincial level nature
reserves in Anhui Province.
The
money will be spent on charting
policies, setting up institutes, improving
management efficiency and environmental
education, according to the city
government of Huangshan, where the
World Heritage mountain is
located.
The program zone,
which covers 0.1 percent of China's
land space, accounts for 7 percent of
China's total number of flora
and fauna species. It is home
to 456 species of vertebrate and 1,800
species of higher plants.
The
program is designed for better
protection and sustainable use of
biodiversity resources in the area and
it will make Mount Huangshan an
example of biodiversity protection, according
to the Huangshan city
government.
