Seagate & WWF to Start Seagate Giant Panda Habitat Monitoring & Restoration Demonstration Program in China’s Western Mounta...
October 27 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today announced at Shaanxi Heihe National Forest Park
the start of the “Seagate Giant Panda Habitat Monitoring and
Restoration Demonstration Program in China’s Western Mountainous
Areas.” This effort is part of an ongoing partnership with Seagate
and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
The project calls on the public, businesses, and society at
large to work together to better protect pandas and their habitats,
as well as other wild species, to bring about harmony between
ecological protection and sustainable development.
The Giant Panda habitats in Shaanxi, Sichuan and Gansu provinces
are areas with rich biological diversity in western China and
important areas for water and soil conservation, carbon
sequestration, and are also major sources of energy for the
surrounding regions. Four protected areas (Sichuan Xiaohegou Nature
Reserve, Shaanxi Zhouzhi National Level Nature Reserve, Heihe
National Forest Park, and Gansu Duoer Nature Reserve), will be
selected for the demo project with the expectation of enhancing
giant panda habitat management, accumulating experience for habitat
monitoring and restoration in larger areas. The project aims to
construct and improve data acquisition and analysis ability of the
conservation units, find threatening factors based on monitoring,
offer pertinent measures, and finally carry out targeted
preventions and countermeasures. The plan will involve capacity
building for the conservation units, conducting infrared camera
monitoring in panda habitats, human disturbance monitoring and
mitigation, and habitat restoration. In Heihe National Forest Park,
the project will deploy a comprehensive Seagate security and
surveillance solution to enhance the human disturbance management.
The solution is high capacity, reliable, and is specially designed
for surveillance.
Seagate is playing an important role in sustainable ecological
development and is dedicated to implementing eco-protection
programs while pursuing its own development. Paul Qian,
director of cloud and enterprise OEM business
at Seagate Technology said, “We expect to open up a new
perspective for biological diversity protection by supporting the
WWF in this Giant Panda Project. In light of the successful
experience of flagship species protection like the giant panda, we
hope to further promote the biological diversity protection in
China, contributing to worldwide biological diversity
protection.”
The infrared camera monitoring technology applied in the program
is a new approach widely used in recent years in the monitoring of
wild animals. The technology can work autonomously in the wild for
a long time, offsetting the deficiencies of traditional
investigation techniques to a great extent, making it less
difficult to collect data. Seagate also offers cutting-edge and
reliable data storage devices for monitoring activities including
data protection and analysis.
“WWF welcomes technology companies like Seagate to participate
in panda conservation and biodiversity protection. New technologies
and ideas can bring a fresh perspective to the issue. New partners
tend to bring us new ideas and thoughts and we hope such
cooperation can help bring the effect of 1+1>2, becoming a new
start of our work,” said
Liu Xiaohai, executive director of programs,
WWF China.
Apart from providing the most advanced products, technologies
and solutions, Seagate actively participates in a broad spectrum of
corporate social responsibility programs, including educational
support, cultural protection, social vulnerable group protection
and green technologies. Seagate has helped construct Seagate Hope
Digital Libraries, the Seagate Tea-Horse Road Culture Digital
Exhibition Center and the Seagate Ecological Forest Program. In the
future, Seagate will continue with its corporate social
responsibilities and promote the harmonious coexistence
between humans and nature with the help of science
and technology, and contribute to ecological civilization.
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About WWF
Established in 1996 and headquartered in
Gland, Switzerland, World Wildlife Fund is one of the renowned
and largest independent non-governmental organizations for
environmental protection. WWF has offices in more than 80 countries
around the world, with 2500 full-time employees, and more than 5
million volunteers. It has been over 50 years since its
establishment and more than 13000 projects have been invested with
about 10 billion dollars involved in the projects. WWF's mission is
to prevent the deterioration of natural environment, to create a
bright future of harmony between human beings and nature.
WWF has been active in China since 1980, when it was invited by
the Chinese government as the first international NGO to work on
nature conservation. The Beijing office opened in 1996, and there
are now 8 additional field programme offices spread across China on
a broad range of conservation programmes including species,
freshwater, forest, marine, climate change and energy, the green
economy and footprint.
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