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Forest China is a nature documentary . It is a major production that has taken China Central Television (CCTV) four years to complete. It covers most of China’s major forests. It is a remarkable result of meticulous research and planning. It showcases China’s latest efforts in protecting the nature and preserving the ecology in the country. It is in fact the only visual document of modern China’s flora and fauna.

Forest Include

Vast forests in the Northeast of China, Qinling Mountains, the Taklamakan Desert, the primitive forest of southeastern Tibet, Shennongjia Mountains in Hubei Province, the Hengduan Mountains, the tropical rain forest in Hainan and the mangroves of the South China Sea.

Coverage

Red birches, diversiform-leaved poplars, Chinese silver firs, ginkgos and seed bearer trees. / Panda, the golden monkey, takin, nippoina, the Northeast China tiger and gibbon. People who live in the forests, their lifestyle and their culture.

Forest China Part 1

Beyond the boundaries of the society we’re so familiar with is the gradually forgotten natural world. The virgin forests are a last place to experience the true rigour of Mother Nature, and to listen to her original songs.

This little spruce is 16 centimeters high. The three branches indicate that it is three years old. Beside it, where it stands below Najiabawa Peak, is an ancient spruce. A Tibetan spruce, when fully grown, can be 70 metres high and 2 metres in diameter. This forest in southeastern Tibet is the highest in the world.

Wake-Robin by John
Burroughs
Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
Souvenirs Entomologiques by
Jean-Henri Fabre
Faith In A Seed by
Henry David Thoreau

China promises another 40 mln hectares of forest by 2020

China´s State Forestry Administration says from 1980 to 2005, the country cut 5 billion tons of carbon emissions through measures like tree-planting.

Beijing is to build five forest parks in 2010

Forest parks will be built in five places, including Jingtai Bridge, Guanganmenwai and Fushi Road. On October 19, reporters learned that the feasibility report of the first five leisure forest parks has been approved, which means that residents in Beijing will be able to wander in forests without having to leave the urban areas of Beijing in 2010.

Lhasa´s forest survival rate likely to hit 85% in drought year

The survival rate of new forests in Lhasa is likely to reach 85 percent despite the severe drought earlier this year, according to the Lhasa City Forestry Bureau.

Tibet´s forest coverage hits 11.31%

Tibet‘s forest coverage has risen to 11.31 percent, up 1.47 percent over the figure released in the fifth survey of forest resources in 2000

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