International Nature Conservation Festival opens
The festival poster
The 6th Shanghai International Nature Conservation Festival began on Sunday, featuring a variety of environmental protection and science popularization activities both online and offline.
With the theme "Human and Nature, a Community of Shared Life," the festival was opened by this year's ambassador Ping An, a Chinese singer.
Ping called on the public to protect wildlife, stop eating wild animals and contribute to the harmonious coexistence of human and nature.
The festival will include a lecture, gathering experts from home and abroad online to share experiences in the preservation of nature, visits to ecological and environmental protection facilities, tours to explore nature, a photo exhibition and a shutterbug competition.
During the festival, the public will also be invited to the city's science popularization venues and science popularization education bases to record the sounds and movements of wildlife, building a wildlife diversity database together. At the same time, nearly 30 nature science popularization films will be screened.
Activities targeting families such as innovative environmental protection DIY, art performances and games will be held at shopping malls and parks to raise people's awareness of the need to protect wildlife and plants. Events for children to feel and record nature will also be staged.
The festival, jointly hosted by Shanghai Science and Technology Committee, Shanghai Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Education Commission, Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau, Shanghai Association for Science and Technology and Shanghai Science Education Development Foundations, will run through the end of this year.
