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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
KUNMING, May 23 (Xinhua) — China launched the country’s first digital platform dedicated to tropical biodiversity on Thursday to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity.
The biodiversity platform, hosted by the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), offers global access to more than 90,000 species records.
Xishuangbanna in southwest China’s Yunnan Province is one of the country’s areas where an intact tropical ecosystem has been preserved. It is home to a sixth of the country’s plant species and a quarter of its animal species.
The new platform contains more than 90,000 records covering 5,236 animal species, 9,779 plant species and 607 fungi species.
The platform was jointly launched by the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and the Ecology and Environment Bureau of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. In order to promote the integration of scientific research, biology popularization and nature conservation, it will continue to expand functions such as intelligent biological image recognition, artificial intelligence-based science popularization, etc. -0-