Jennifer Turner, Director of the China Environment Forum for the Woodrow Wilson Center talks with two Chinese experts about rising ocean conservation awareness in China and why protecting the pristine southern ocean ecosystem of Antarctica is good for the planet...and good for China.
Guests
Dr. Bin Bin Li, Duke Kunshan University
Dr. Julia Xue, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Highlights
08:20 Why are marine protected areas important?
15:37 China’s goal to protect 5% of its territorial waters by 2020
11:45 Rising ocean awareness in China and pressure on policy makers to protect it
14:30 China’s commitment under Biodiversity Convention to protect 10% world’s ocean
16:35 Right to fish may be important now to China. But China's leadership on the environmental movement is important for the next generation.
Further Reading and Listening
Production credits:
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Associate producer: Chermaine Lee
Sound Engineer: Chris Wood
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
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