AR-News: (China) "Love birds week" slated for late March in Guangxi

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

NANNING, March 17 (Xinhuanet) -- A week-long activity to call for public care 
and protection of birds has been scheduled for March 20-26 in southwest 
China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, one of the country's major avian 
habitats. 
    Local forest administration departments have held similar events for 22 
years in Guangxi, which is home to 520 species of bird and 42.8 percent of 
birds in China, and is also situated on the route for migratory birds flying in 
winter to Southeast Asian countries and Australia. 
    In the run-up to "love birds week", a ceremony was held recently in 
Beihai, a port city in Guangxi, to build up the momentum of the activity, amid 
rampant bird hunting in the region, especially on the outskirts of Beihai. 



full story:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/17/content_1370466.htm 
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