On March 3, 2019, World Wildlife Day, is a special day to celebrate and to aware the people about wildlife. The CBCGDF's CCAfa for Seawater Finless Porpoises at Dalian (in Northern China's Liaoning province) launched two activities.

First, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, an on-site public awareness promotion event for the protection of Seawater Finless Porpoises was carried out in the coastal zone of Xinghai Park in Dalian City.

More than 50 people have been educated on the importance of Seawater finless porpoises' conservation. To some extent, some people followed the innitive online for future participation to the protection of those marine porpoises. In addition, two local NGOs on the spot expressed their interest in future cooperation about the species conservation.

Second, from 19 p.m. to 20:30 p.m., an online lecture on "Joint Protection of Seawater Finless Porpoises" was given, and 133 people participated the webinar. Ms. Ren Zengying, director of the CCAfa (Community Marine Finless Porpoise Conservation) at Dalian, explained the existing status, problems, challenges of the species. People actively interacted on the webinar with enthusiam. The online lecture has achieved good interactive effect and improved the public's awareness of life under water. Many participants decided to join the relavant activities in the future.

【Event summary】

Date: March 3, 2019

Address:  No. 634 Zhongshan Road, Shahekou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China

Place: Beach of a coastal park

【About CCAfa】

Community conservation Areas (CCAfa) is an unique protected area mechanism to protect fragmented habitats. Launched in 2016 by the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), it's a type of OCEMs, and it turned out to be very effective in gathering grassroot and public participation in biodiversity conservation. With the aim of conducting targeted approaches to protect endangered species of fauna and flora, historical relics, cultural sites, etc, there are 110 CCAfa around China by March 2019.

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(Above pictures: the first 5 pictures are by the CCAfa director Ms, Ren at this event; other pictures are pictures from online. The seawater species has been neglected for a long time, died or killed at a large number every year. This is China's first protected area for the species.)

By / Linda