Protected plant list updated
China DailyA profusion of globeflowers and Yajiang primroses on a high mountain steppe in western Sichuan province. Earlier this month, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration began to solicit public opinion on the upcoming revised content of the "National Key Protected Wild Plants List". According to the notice issued by the administration, the list includes a total of 468 species and 25 categories of wild plants, of which 53 species and two categories are under primary protection, and 415 species and 23 categories are under secondary protection. Two species were upgraded from national secondary protection to national first-level protection, while 18 species and two categories of first-level protection were downgraded to secondary level. "There are many exciting changes in this new list," says Gu Yourong, associate professor at School of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, and PhD in Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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