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Project Components Wetland Management and Restoration Surveys, Monitoring and Species Conservation Capacity Building and Training Public Awareness and Environmental Education

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Related Projects Endangered Fish Breeding Centre, KIZ, CAS DM Mussel Project

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Project Components of the Dianchi Project

1. Wetland Management and Restoration

2. Surveys, monitoring and Species Conservation

3. Capacity Building and Training

4. Public Awareness and Environmental Education

The objective of the GEF project is to restore and manage habitats around the lake in order to secure the conservation of the remaining endemic species of Lake Dianchi and its immediate tributaries.

It is expected to achieve the goals of：

1. the conservation of a community of internationally significant, threatened and severely range-restricted species

2. a demonstration of the utility of restoration for freshwater biodiversity conservation

3. the innovative use of biological indicator species for pollution bioremediation and monitoring

4. a greater awareness locally, nationally and globally of threats, challenges and opportunities related to Lake Dianchi in particular, and freshwater biodiversity in general

5. increased capacity to survey and identify freshwater biodiversity in Yunnan and elsewhere in China

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Protection plan of the Dianchi ecosystem

   Buddhism and Biodiversity Conservation  

    The 21st century has begun with many living species having been driven into a narrow space due to competition for living space with human beings. The loss of biodiversity has attracted increasing attention from people because it has severely affected economic development and the quality of life.

Mussels can be viewed as natural biological water filters, which can lead to improvements in water quality for humans and native biodiversity. Mussels overcome the environmental costs associated with using chemical flocculants, and the energy and implementation costs associated with

Invasive species are those that have invaded a habitat other than their own and subsequently spread out of control. Invasive species always do serious damage to the ecosystem as well as to the biodiversity of the local environment. In China, invasive species are defined by the following characteristics:

Lake Dianchi is a ‘hotspot’ of freshwater biodiversity with 24 indigenous fish species, at least 11 of which are endemic, and dozens of endemic mollusc and crustacean species. o protect the indigenous fish in Lake Dianchi.

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