BIODIVERSITY GETS SCIENCE SHIELD
Jun 18, 2020
4 minutes
By Lu Yan
Copyedited by Garth Wilson
This year has been rewarding for Yang Xiaojun, a researcher at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The green peafowls Yang and his team bred laid over 20 eggs. They worked hard for these purebred green peafowl eggs for more than six years.
The green peafowl is China’s only native peafowl and was once common in Yunnan Province, where the Kunming Institute of Zoology is based. However, in recent decades a decline in their number led the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to list the species as endangered on its Red List of Threatened Species. Habitat loss is one of the
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