China Elk Green Club started with the reintroduction of elk. The background of this project is 1900, when Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing and plundered it. In addition, the flooding of Yongding River made the world's only remaining population of more than 200 elk in Royal Hunt Park in the southern suburbs of Beijing disappear in China. 190 1 year, Duke Beffort of England collected 18 elk in Europe, and concentrated them in Ubons Manor in England in a semi-wild way, so that the small population of elk could survive and reproduce. 1985 In May, Lord tavistock, the owner of Wubang Temple Manor in England, presented 38 elk and some sponsorship funds to China to show Sino-British friendship. With the support of the then State Environmental Protection Bureau and the Beijing Municipal Government, the project of releasing elk was to invest 1,000 mu of land in the original site of the Qing Dynasty Royal Hunting Garden in Nanhaizi, Beijing, and establish the Beijing Elk Ecological Experimental Center, namely the Nanhaizi Elk Garden and the Elk Museum in Beijing. With the support of Lv Zhengcao, Bao Erhan and Qian Changzhao, then vice-chairmen of CPPCC, Jin Jianming, then deputy director of State Environmental Protection Bureau, and Ji Yanshou, then deputy director of Beijing Science and Technology Commission and president of Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, China Elk Green Club was established with the approval of Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China, People's Bank of China and China Association for Science and Technology.
After the establishment of China Elk Green Club, it actively carried out all kinds of work for the whole society and achieved good results. By 1993, the number of elk in Nanhaizi Elk Garden had increased from 38 to more than 200, making it the second largest elk population in the world after Wubangs Manor in Britain, and Shishou in Hubei was successfully released in the wild for the first time. Now elk have spread all over the north and south of the great river, inside and outside the Great Wall, and more than 50 stocking points on both sides of the Yellow River, realizing the return of elk to nature.
The International Animal Protection Organization recognizes the success of the China Elk Release Project, which is a successful example of species release in the world. 1In June, 1992, the largest United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 183 countries and regions participated, and the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted, and China became one of the contracting parties to the Convention. After the meeting, a group of experts, such as Comrade Lv Zhengcao, who was then the chairman of China Elk Green Association, thought that the project of releasing the elk was successful, and the protection of a single species should be extended to the protection of the whole biodiversity, which is conducive to international integration, promoting the cause of biodiversity protection in China and strengthening international exchanges and cooperation. This proposal was instructed by Comrade Wen Jiabao, then Vice Premier of the State Council, and reported to China Association for Science and Technology for approval as 1997. China Elk Green Club was officially renamed as China Biodiversity Conservation Green Club by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.