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unlike other environmental protection organizations, the global village of beijing (gvb) is particularly concerned with human beings and their community, rather than certain species of animals, plants or water resources. gvb mainly engages in publicizing the 5r (reduce, reevaluate, reuse, recycle, and rescue) green life style. liao xiaoyi, founder of the gvb, says that their main thrust is to help people make the decision voluntarily to choose a nature-friendly way of life, exercise their rights, and stand by their obligation to protect the environment. since the day the gvb was founded, liao and her colleagues have made investigations into garbage sorting in different communities, and helped neighborhood committees in beijing's xicheng district to establish pilot garbage sorting stations. the gvb has also cooperated with the environmental protection department to establish china's first pilot green community in the jiangongnanli community of beijing's xuanwu district. liao xiaoyi's dream is to make green communities into the most beautiful landscape in china in the 21st century.
more and more students are joining this drive to protect our environment. environmental protection organizations made up of student volunteers play a vital role in arousing public environment awareness and social responsibility. senol is the most influential school environmental protection group in beijing. it was founded in 1994 by two students from the beijing forestry university.
senol participated in the campaign to protect the yunnan golden monkey, and in the investigation and exploration of the beima snow mountain in western china. when a pair of wild geese laid eggs on a mid-lake island in purple bamboo park in beijing, members of senol pitched tents there, guarding the birds in shifts for a month, in order to prevent the eggs being taken away by visitors, and to ensure that the goslings hatched safely. many people were moved by their efforts, and began to reevaluate the role of human beings within nature.
many individuals have attracted public attention in their dedication to environmental protection. in 1989, yang xin, a photographer on the yangtze river rafting expedition, began recording changes in the biological environment on the upper reaches of the yangtze river. he later initiated a campaign to protect the river with the slogan, "protect the source of the yangtze river and care for nature." this activity aroused the concern of people from all walks of life. a green world tour, written by tang xiyang, a distinguished environmentalist writer, is regarded as the encyclopedia of china's nature conservation, and a masterpiece on environmental protection education.