国内英语资讯:Chinas conservation efforts heralded at 2018 African Ranger Awards_时事

国内英语资讯:Chinas conservation efforts heralded at 2018 African Ranger Awards

CAPE TOWN, Aug. 7 -- The 2018 Ranger Awards ceremony was held in Cape Town on Tuesday, highlighting the Chinese conservation efforts on the African continent.

The awards were presented by the Alibaba Foundation, together with the Paradise Foundation, two Chinese conservation groups dedicated to wildlife protection in Africa.

Addressing the ceremony, Jack Ma, Executive Chair of Alibaba Group and Co-chair of the Paradise Foundation, pledged to creat a global consciousness about the need to view the task of protecting Africa's vast wildlife resources as a duty of all people and building a broad vision of "humankind and nature in balance" where "every organization becomes an organization that is related to the ecosystem."

The African Ranger Awards were launched by the Alibaba Foundation together with the Paradise Foundation in July this year. Under the initiative that will last 10 years, 50 wildlife rangers will be awarded each year, with a prize of 3,000 U.S. dollars each.

Ma told the audience that he and his group would "come back to Africa every year to visit at least three countries" to bear witness to what he and others had experienced on the ground which reveals that "animals and human beings can live harmoniously together."

Among the pertinent issues highlighted during the ceremony were China's decisive leadership by building synergies with conservation, innovation and technology.