Dr. Guo
From GMIA
Ornithologist, Dr. Yu-Min Guo, 43, was born in the Xing’an Mountains and first saw Hooded Cranes in the late 1990s. Inspired, he has built a team of Chinese and Russian conservationists to develop effective monitoring and protection of the cranes and the swamps where they breed. Changing local attitudes towards wetlands by using cranes as flagships for conservation is one of the highest priorities. More than 20,000 education booklets have been published, motivating locals of Xingqing to rename the town “Homeland of Hooded Crane”. The real challenge for Yumin and his team is to now work with local people towards rural development options that do not destroy the fragile wetlands.
Awards
Dr. Guo Yu-Min, a Chinese scholar, became one of the 8 winners of the "Whitley Awards 2007" in April 2007 and the only Asian winner that year.
