Fact Finding for Biodiversity and Natural Resources Loan

The Chinese and German Governments agreed on a new bilateral program related to ‘Biodiversity and Natural Resources’. Anhui province submitted a proposal for preserving biodiversity in the Tianzhu Mountains. The Tianzhu Mountains are a UNESCO Global Geopark and among the three top tourist destinations in Anhui province. The park houses large bare quartz and granite gneiss rocks, cultural heritage reaching back to the Han Dynasty (106 BC) and world famous ancient poetry and literature, the Sanzu Monastry which strongly influenced Zen Buddhism in China. Due to its location at the interface between sub-tropical evergreen forests and temperate forest ecosystems, the area has rich biodiversity. UNIQUE was contracted for various fact finding tasks.