Lijiang station is situated in the transitional zone from the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in northwestern Yunnan, which stands as one of the global biodiversity hotspots, a paramount area for biodiversity conservation, and a repository of biological germplasm resources in China.
With so many plants and animals at risk of extinction, our reporter Yang Jinghao has been talking to botanists in southwest China's Yunnan Province to find out how they have been protecting the critically endangered species.
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