GoKunming has put up a very interesting interview of WWF Kunming Office Head Wu Yusong the provides some interesting insights into their programming in the region.
For me the most interesting was when Go Kunming asked about WWF’s Challenges and successed:
GK: What are WWF’s biggest challenges in Yunnan? What are its greatest achievements?
Wu: As I have mentioned already, we are now working heavily on WWF’s Upper Mekong Programme. Expanding the scope of our conservation working area means that we are having to work with a wider group of partners and stakeholders. The river is facing a lot of pressure, especially from mining, hydropower, and infrastructure development. It has been a learning process to discover how we can work constructively with such stakeholders in order to achieve win-win solutions.
Our biggest recent achievement was our Integrated Conservation and Development initiative in Baimaxueshan National Nature Reserve. This highly successful project focused on the concept of cooperative management and empowered local management staff and communities with the knowledge and tools necessary to map out their own routes to sustainability.
To read the full interview, you can go here, or learn more about WWF in China here.