Assessing Ecosystem Services for Sustainable River Delta - presented by Dr. Wenbo Cai && Human-wildlife coexistence and conflicts in Chinese Protected Areas - presented by Dr. Wanting Peng

Assessing Ecosystem Services for Sustainable River Delta
presented by Dr. Wenbo Cai (IUD – ECNU, Shanghai, China)

Ecosystem services are crucial for sustainable waterfront management. This talk examines key ecosystem services - carbon sequestration, climate regulation stormwater regulation, and water purification, etc - in China's Yangtze River Delta. A Shanghai waterfront area case study shows how ecosystem service assessments can help planners balance urban growth and sustainability near waterbodies.

KEY WORDS - Ecosystem services; Waterfront area management; Yangtze River Delta

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Human-wildlife coexistence and conflicts in Chinese Protected Areas
presented by Dr. Wanting Peng (CAUP-Tongji university, Shanghai, China)

Balancing biological conservation and human community development is a key factor in achieving the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). China has a large number of local community with a long human-nature interaction, in Protected Areas (PAs). In this talk, I will brief introduction Chinese national parks and PAs system. Then, I will take umbrella species of Black-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis) and the local community interaction system in the Dashanbao PA as an example to illustrate how to mitigate human-wildlife conflict and promote human-nature harmony scientific planning and management in Chinese Protected Areas.

KEY WORDS : Chinese Protected Areas ; Human-wildlife coexistence; Biodiversity conservation