The lone elephant who broke away from the wandering herd in Yunnan @Bao Mingwei  

On November 23, NRDC and its partners hosted the sixth and final workshop of the 2021 Wildlife Law and Governance series. The workshop highlighted three wildlife news events that attracted widespread public and media attention this year: the wandering Asian elephants in Yunnan province, newborn gibbons in Hainan province, and the rescue and release of a wild Siberian tiger in Heilongjiang province. The workshop invited experts to offer first-hand accounts of the events and to provide recommendations on law and policy improvements. The experts all emphasized the importance of large-scale landscape conservation to ensure ecosystem connectivity and biodiversity and the recovery of wildlife populations. The experts also urged policymakers to develop policies that can adapt to changing circumstances in the wild and better protect endangered species while achieving successful coexistence between wildlife and people in and around protected areas. A policy recommendation briefing from this workshop was submitted to NFGA for reference to improve the Wildlife Protection Law Amendment draft.  About 300 participants attended the online workshop. Key media outlets covered the workshop, including the Green Daily, the official newspaper of NFGA. News coverage of the workshop by The Paper, a prominent online news outlet, attracted over 700,000 views on Weibo, a major social media outlet in China.