Demonstration Site for Seagrass Protection and Management First Launched in China

Recently the CAS South China Sea Institute of Oceanology and the Co- ordinating Unit for the UNEP/GEF Project on Reversing Environmen- tal Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand signed an agreement on Hepu Seagrass Demonstration Site in Southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The move marks the inauguration of the first such site in China. Started from January 2002, a re- search team from the CAS institute has made efforts to map and study s…