In fact, the earliest environmental NGO registered in China is the Black-billed Gull Protection Association in Panjin, Liaoning. It was registered on April 18th, 1991. Liu Detian, the founder, is a reporter of Panjin Daily.

As an internationally important wetland, Panjin was often visited by international ecologists at that time. Liu Detian, a journalist, attributed the birth of the Black-billed Gull Protection Association to the influence of two foreigners.

One is Mei Weiyi, an expert on black-billed gull from the World Wide Fund for Nature. He let Liu Detian hear the words "endangered" and "ecological" for the first time. "Every species is a knot on the Internet. The extinction of any species will bring losses to the ecological network. "

Another foreigner, George Achebo, chairman of the International Crane Conservation Foundation, reminds Liu Detian of Bethune. "Another Canadian came to China for the protection of birds in the world and China. These behaviors are across national boundaries." In those days, China's ideology was still a color, but it was the real logic of the collision of two kinds of thinking.

Three years later, Liang Congjie, Yang Dongping and other intellectuals chose the environmental field as an opportunity and space to enhance public participation. The original idea actually came from their western vision. Even the name "Friends of Nature" was borrowed from Hong Kong's "Friends of the Earth".

The registration problem has repeatedly hit a wall. At that time, the State Environmental Protection Administration did not act as an affiliated unit. Up to now, Friends of Nature is still a secondary institution affiliated to the Chinese Academy.

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