China and India: Toward a sustainable world

Bawa, Kamaljit S.; Goodale, Eben; Mtemi, Wambura M.; Chen, Youfang; Barthakur, Ranjit; Goodale, Uromi Manage; Liu, Jianguo; Jiang, Aiwu; Mammides, Christos; Meegaskumbura, Madhava; Pandit, Maharaj K.; Cao, Kaihua

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“…Running through these habitats are international borders and sites of armed conflicts rooted in cultural misunderstanding. These habitats must be sustained for the benefit of their wild species and the many people in some of Asia's largest countries whose livelihoods depend upon them [ 51 , 52 ].…”

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“…B 289: 20212650 multi-nation trade route without creating opportunities for illegal export and other forms of economic exploitation. We suggest that maintaining sustainable harvest as well as the fair trade of caterpillar fungus will support the transboundary conservation efforts needed in the Himalayan region [10,11,51,52].…”

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“…Based on these results, we propose a two-step procedure to help local communities authenticate their product using this hybrid enrichment probe kit, and provide suggestions for policymakers and conservation practitioners for improving this multi-nation trade route without creating opportunities for illegal export and other forms of economic exploitation. We suggest that maintaining sustainable harvest as well as the fair trade of caterpillar fungus will support the trans-boundary conservation efforts needed in the Himalayan region [ 10 , 11 , 51 , 52 ].…”

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Profiling, monitoring and conserving caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region using anchored hybrid enrichment markers

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The collection of caterpillar fungus accounts for 50–70% of the household income of thousands of Himalayan communities and has an estimated market value of $5–11 billion across Asia. However, Himalayan collectors are at multiple economic disadvantages compared with collectors on the Tibetan Plateau because their product is not legally recognized. Using a customized hybrid-enrichment probe set and market-grade caterpillar fungus (with samples up to 30 years old) from 94 production zones across Asia, we uncovered clear geography-based signatures of historical dispersal and significant isolation-by-distance among caterpillar fungus hosts. This high-throughput approach can readily distinguish samples from major production zones with definitive geographical resolution, especially for samples from the Himalayan region that form monophyletic clades in our analysis. Based on these results, we propose a two-step procedure to help local communities authenticate their produce and improve this multi-national trade-route without creating opportunities for illegal exports and other forms of economic exploitation. We argue that policymakers and conservation practitioners must encourage the fair trade of caterpillar fungus in addition to sustainable harvesting to support a trans-boundary conservation effort that is much needed for this natural commodity in the Himalayan region.

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Profiling, monitoring and conserving caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region using anchored hybrid enrichment markers

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“…The region includes four biodiversity hotspots (Xu et al 2019 ), yet is threatened by hydroelectric power projects and climate change (Pandit 2017 ). Indeed, the desolate high-elevation landscape along the Himalayan borders might be best suited as a peace park (Bawa et al 2020a ) or series of nature reserves and thereby a part of “conservation diplomacy” (Pandit 2020 ). The Himalaya offer vast opportunities of collaborative research on biodiversity, for the two regions share geological and evolutionary history (Pandit 2017 ).…”

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Increasing collaboration between China and India in the environmental sciences to foster global sustainability

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As the two largest countries by population, China and India have pervasive effects on the ecosphere. Because of their human population size and long international boundary, they share biodiversity and the threats to it, as well as crops, pests and diseases. We ranked the two countries on a variety of environmental challenges and solutions, illustrating quantitatively their environmental footprint and the parallels between them regarding the threats to their human populations and biodiversity. Yet we show that China and India continue to have few co-authorships in environmental publications, even as their major funding for scientific research has expanded. An agenda for collaboration between China and India can start with the shared Himalaya, linking the countries’ scientists and institutions. A broader agenda can then be framed around environmental challenges that have regional patterns. Coordinated and collaborative research has the potential to improve the two countries’ environmental performance, with implications for global sustainability.

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“…We gathered papers authored by researchers from 8 countries, i.e., India, China, Singapore, Australia, Pakistan, Brunei, Sri Lanka, and United States. We are convinced that collaboration among Asian nations is an essential condition for any meaningful biodiversity conservation targets to be achieved (Chen et al, 2019;Bawa et al, 2020). We are also convinced that biodiversity conservation should develop interdisciplinary approaches outside the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, and that it should be science that addresses people's and nature's needs (Kremen and Merenlender, 2018).…”

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Editorial: Impacts of Habitat Transformation on Species, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Asia

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China and India: Toward a sustainable world

Cited by 9 publications

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Profiling, monitoring and conserving caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region using anchored hybrid enrichment markers

Profiling, monitoring and conserving caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region using anchored hybrid enrichment markers

Increasing collaboration between China and India in the environmental sciences to foster global sustainability

Editorial: Impacts of Habitat Transformation on Species, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Asia

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