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Conserving the primary forests in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon for people and nature

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Fig. 1: The primary forests of the YTGC region and increasing identification of the biodiversity value of the region.

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Acknowledgements

We thank communities in Medog for sharing knowledge and guidance, China State Forest and Grassland Administration, Forest and Grassland Bureau of Tibetan Autonomous Region, and Government of Linzhi Prefecture and Motuo County for research permission and support, as well as CICC charity foundation, China Green Carbon Foundation, and GAC Toyota for funding. Funding was provided by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (grant 2022YFF130202); International Research Centre of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (grant no. CBAS2022GSP06); and National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 42371329 and 31971575).

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  1. Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Yu Ren, Haitao Yang, Kai Cheng, Mengxi Chen, Zekun Yang & Qinghua Guo

  2. Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Yu Ren, Fangyuan Hua, Zhixin Cheng & Qinghua Guo

  3. Xizijiang Conservation Center, Shenzhen, China

    Cheng Li

  4. Shan Shui Conservation Center, Beijing, China

    Kating Chau & Xiangying Shi

  5. School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

    Guangpeng Fan

  6. Beijing GreenValley Technology Co., Ltd, Haidian District, Beijing, China

    Guangcai Xu

  7. Center for Nature and Society, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Ruocheng Hu & Zhi Lu

  8. National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Xiangying Shi

  9. School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou, China

    Hongcan Guan

  10. Key Laboratory of Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Kangshan Mao

  11. State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Yanjun Su

  12. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Yanjun Su

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Ren, Y., Li, C., Chau, K. et al. Conserving the primary forests in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon for people and nature. Nat Ecol Evol 8, 837–839 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02383-y

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