Recently, the program production department of GMA Network, Inc. of the Philippines sent a special letter to CBCGDF, asking CBCGDF to authorize the use of the photos/videos of Baiji Dolphin in the broadcast of a program on the Network’s news channel.

(Photo credit: GMA Network)

GMA Network Inc., one of the leading television networks in the Philippines, launched GMA News TV in 2011 and is now the number one News Channel in the country. Part of the GMA News TV's line-up is the long-running and award-winning, weekend infotainment list and lifestyle program “AngPinaka…”

Has been broadcast for more than one decade, the program is hosted by international TV host, model, athlete, environmental advocate, AXN’s Amazing Race Asia 2 finalist and Asia’s Got Talent presenter, and other celebrities.

With the help of its guest panelists, the program lists down the TOP 10 of everything under the sun – pop culture, entertainment, politics, food, travel, new media, music, sports, environment, trends, trivia, and others. Airing every Sunday, 6:30 P.M. to 7:15 P.M., the show feeds every Filipino's thirst for trivia and the chika that can be picked up from the show make great conversation starters.

The upcoming episode will list down the top ten Ang Pinaka (The Most): Strange Extinct Animals and Baiji Dolphin is included in the list. Hence, the program producer would like to ask for CBCGDF's permission to use the photos/videos of the Baiji Dolphin for the episode.

China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) has been sparing no effort to find the possibility of the existence of Baiji Dolphin. In 2016, after suspected Baiji Dolphin was witnessed and nearly one hundred finless porpoises were observed, CBCGDF promoted the establishment of “China Conservation Area for Baiji Dolphin" in Anhui Province, doing its best to monitor and protect the important habitat of freshwater dolphins in the waters of the Anhui section of the Yangtze River. In April 2018, the CBCGDF Enterprise Photography Nature Fund (EPNF) launched a scientific expedition, and for the first time, clear photos of the Baiji Dolphin were taken in the "China Conservation Area for Baiji Dolphin". The photos have been confirmed by the relevant Baiji Dolphin experts and authorities to be a Baiji Dolphin. In May, CBCGDF released the photos through the media, which immediately aroused enthusiastic response and attention at home and abroad. Afterward, CBCGDF sent a letter to the governments of Wuhu City and Tongling City in Anhui Province, suggesting that the two cities should organize an expert demonstration meeting on the incident of the Baiji Dolphin. While further identifying the photo shooting content, the focus will be on how to further strengthen the biodiversity conservation including the Baiji dolphin and finless porpoise of the Yangtze River.

(Photo credit: CBCGDF EPNF)

China Daily published a special article on the far-reaching event of CBCGDF EPNF and gave a hopeful explanation of the interpretation of CBCGDF's colleagues and senior experts. In June 2018, when Mr. Tim Hirsch, Deputy Director of the world's largest “Global Biodiversity Information Facility” (GBIF) visited CBCGDF, Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, the Secretary-General of CBCGDF told him the story about CBCGDF's folk volunteers’ examine the trail of Baiji dolphin. In July, CBCGDF successfully published the data on the observed endangered species, including the Baiji Dolphin, through the Chinese portal on the GBIF platform.

(Photo credit: CBCGDF)

In November 2018, when the CBCGDF delegation attended the Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP14) of the 2018 United Nations Biodiversity Conference, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, held an unprecedented side event. At the meeting, in the way of kids’ singing, CBCGDF EPNF called on the world’s attention to the protection of the endangered species Baiji Dolphin and biodiversity conservation.

The touching children's voice on the side event of CBD COP14 (Photo credit: CBCGDF EPNF)

Original Chinese article:

http://www.cbcgdf.org/NewsShow/4937/7355.html