Not long ago, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) sent a letter to the Nigerian Environment Minister, proposing to work together to strengthen the fight against global illegal trade involving endangered species such as pangolins.

Recently, as a leading non-governmental organization dedicated to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, and on the long road of protecting pangolins, CBCGDF colleagues who have been working hard to write to the Nigerian President, specifically expressed the important topic on protection of pangolins, hope to strengthen cooperation with relevant Nigerian departments, promote the commonweal of the two peoples, and build the sincerity of “Ecological Belt and Road” initiative to contribute to building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind. The following is the special letter from China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) to the President of Nigeria, to share with reader.

Letter to His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari

Dear Mr. President,

How are you? We feel humbled to introduced ourselves, the writer, as belonging to China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation  (CBCGDF) located in Beijing, China. We are a non-profit NGO dedicated to Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development for more than three decades.

As a leading Chinese NGO, CBCGDF has sparing long time efforts focusing on protecting and saving the world’s mammal suffer the most from illegal trade – pangolins. Lately, we learned about the pangolins’ conservation condition and successful stories in Nigeria. We’ve drawn profound inspiration from these experiences of our Nigerian colleagues. They have given us deep encouragement for our protection work. We share more same aims and visions than what we expected.

Combined with what we can learn from the example cases of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, CBCGDF has launched several specific pangolins protection projects, to carry out relevant research programmes, also to raise people’s awareness and reflections on pangolin protection at home and globally. In the meantime, we have contacted the NGOs in Nigeria, also have written to the Minister of Environment of Nigeria, Mr. Surveyor Suleiman Hassan, about the Proposals to synergistically promote the protection of pangolins in Nigeria, China and around the world.

To this end, we hope what we try to convey in this message could drew attention from Your Excellency. Through the call and encouragement from Your Excellency, we believe it would be greatly helpful for what we are wishing, and for what we are trying to complete. We truly wish through the formation of an international collaboration between us and our colleagues in Nigeria, to make more progress and call for the endangered species pangolins protection, to practically participate in global environmental governance, and to strengthen the friendship between our countries. This will further to demonstrate the “One Belt, One Road” initiative and the words by our President Xi Jinping, to build a Community of Shared Future for Mankind.

Please let us express our profound appreciation for your time and attention. Grateful.

Most respectfully,

China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation

(Photo credit: CBCGDF Volunteer)

By / Maggie N.