(cont.)
Ensure provision of adequate resources
Money and technology should be transferred from richer to poorer countries. Being a subcontinent in rapid but uneven transition from the latter to the former, China's responsibilities are complex, requiring resource-transfer to some countries and from others, and from its richer to its poorer regions. In South China there has been some larger recent investment in conservation, e.g. from the European Union and Global Environment Facility in Guangxi, while a steady stream of the region's nature reserves have been upgraded to qualify for national funding. Still, most nature reserves are in poor areas and under-funded, while key provincial government conservation branches, under Forestry and Environmental Protection Departments, are under constraints of funding and technical capacity. Local lack of funding leads in turn to reliance on potentially harmful tourism and infrastructure developments in sensitive areas. Whether donor or recipient, China can do better. Score: 8/20

Overall score: 81/190 or 43%. Since 2000 there have been some major steps forward, but there remains a lot of room for improvement. While it seems likely that the slowing of biodiversity loss in South China, which began in the 1990s, has continued in the 2000s, there remain areas of concern, and the region's impact on world biodiversity has increased sharply.

In this assessment no reflection is intended on departments or individuals, many of whom show great dedication - as conservationists ten years into our China Programme, we share responsibility for underperformance in the region, and real reversal of biodiversity loss will call for fundamental changes in world development. It seems important, though, to be frank about the challenges, and the 2010 targets, refined during this period, give us one common framework for improving our efforts. What's needed is renewed commitment from all of us, and innovation from a new generation to bring biodiversity conservation into the mainstream.





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