{"id":20001515,"date":"2012-04-16T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T07:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/184.172.177.95\/~chinad\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2021-01-06T22:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:50:50","slug":"life-on-the-roof-of-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/life-on-the-roof-of-the-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on the roof of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yang Xiaohong\u00a0and\u00a0Fang Qianhua, winners of the \u201cbest science report\u201d category at the 2012 China Environmental Press Awards, spent a month with scientists tracking species in the Everest Nature Reserve.chinadialogue\u00a0features a slideshow of their photos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1516\" title=\"Life on the roof of the world\" src=\"http:\/\/184.172.177.95\/~chinad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Life-on-the-roof-of-the-world.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"103\" \/>Two journalists from\u00a0Southern Metropolis Daily, Yang Xiaohong and Fang Qianhua, accompanied a scientific expedition for more than a month in Tibet, travelling from the southern slopes of the Himalayas to the north. They saw the fire-tailed sunbird, known as the world\u2019s most beautiful bird; the elusive wolves of the high plateau; red gorals; the majestic Cinereous Vulture; and the charming and precious red panda.<\/p>\n<p>The judges of the 2012 China Environmental Press Awards \u2013 co-organised by<em>\u00a0chinadialogue,\u00a0The Guardian,<\/em> Sina and with support from the Society of Entrepreneurs &amp; Ecology (SEE), felt that the two reporters had expanded the scope of environmental reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Awarding them the \u201cbest science report\u201d prize, the awards committee said that almost every new species discovered on the Tibetan Plateau has rewritten the natural history books, and these two reporters have written a new chapter for nature reporting in the Chinese media. These are some of the photos from their journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yang Xiaohong\u00a0and\u00a0Fang Qianhua, winners of the \u201cbest science report\u201d category at the 2012 China Environmental Press Awards, spent a month with scientists tracking species in the Everest Nature Reserve.chinadialogue\u00a0features a slideshow of their photos. Two journalists from\u00a0Southern Metropolis Daily, Yang Xiaohong and Fang Qianhua, accompanied a scientific expedition for more than a month in Tibet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20000264,"featured_media":20001516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[764],"tags":[511,523,539,20000022,50040707],"hashtags":[],"country":[20000110],"class_list":["post-20001515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-biodiversity","tag-conservation","tag-endangered-species","tag-himalayas","tag-the-third-pole","country-china"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Life on the roof of the world | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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