About ICBPC
About ICBPC
  

   In the face of global climate change, increasing habitat degradation, deforestation, air, soil and water pollution, and an impending worldwide animal and plant extinction crisis, a group of internationally distinguished concerned and conservation-oriented scientists and conservationists have come together to create the International Centre of Biodiversity and Primate Conservation (ICBPC). The ICBPC is housed at Dali University, Yunnan Province, China and run through Dali University and Northwest University, two highly distinguished educational institutions in China. All conservation-related projects and actions, and financial management of the Centre requires approval and discussion by the Executive Committee, which consists of a highly respected board of international conservation scientists and experts, donors, environmental journalists, entrepreneurs and political leaders dedicated to protecting the world’s environment.
  The Centre’s goals are to share our combined experience and expertise in conservation biology, genetics, animal behavior, community ecology, disease, and ecosystem health and environmental sustainability. It also explores historical association between animal distribution alteration and extinction with human-induced activities. Such efforts will work with regional and home-country scientists, conservation organizations, governmental officials, the media, educators, and the public to preserve, protect, and restore natural habitats and threatened wild animals and plants. To accomplish this, we aim to compile regional and national archives of environmental information that serve as an integrated data repository for data management, data analysis, computer modeling, wildlife videos, and the implementation of sustainable conservation policies and actions that promote biodiversity, habitat restoration, and public education. We intend to share these data sets, which contain the most recent advances in climate science, sustainable land use patterns, animal and plant species requirements, good governance, and the needs of the local human communities that overlap with primate and other animal and plant distributions (Fig.1)