Conservation and Research - Researchers
Kadoorie Conservation China Department
Kadoorie Conservation China Department
Fauna Conservation Flora Conservation Conservation by Site Ecological Advisory Programme Collaborative Research in KFBG’s Nature Reserve Researchers Facilities

ZHENG Xi

Conservation Officer

Kadoorie Conservation China Department

zhengxi@kfbg.org

Zheng Xi graduated from the Ecology and Biodiversity Department of The University of Hong Kong. He is a birder-turned-conservationist who strives to minimize biodiversity loss in China and Cambodia. He is a member of the IUCN SSC Hornbill Specialist Group. 

Selected publications:

Zheng, X., Lewthwaite, R., Martinez, J., Yu, Y. T., Liu, Y., Yang, L., & Chan, B. P. L. (2021). Distribution and status updates of Chinese Grass-babbler Graminicola striatus in China: Implications for its global conservation status. Global Ecology and Conservation 26: e01463.

Zheng, X., Zhang, D.C., Gong, Q.B., Chan, B.P.L. (2021). CCTV monitoring system: a novel approach in hornbill research and conservation. Hornbill Natural History and Conservation 2(1): 24–27.

Zheng, X., Zhang, L.X., Yang, Z.H. & Chan, B.P.L. (2020) Flocking of hornbills observed in Tongbiguan Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China. Hornbill Natural History and Conservation 1(1): 42-44.

Zheng, X., Zuo, C., Yang, J., Zhang, D., Yang, Z. & Chan, P.B.L. (2020). Safeguarding the last breeding population of River Tern Sterna aurantia in China. BirdingASIA, 33: 68–73.

Zheng, X., Li, F., Bi, Z., Zhang, X., Han, J. & Chan, B.P.L. (2019) Current status of birds in Tengchong Section of Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, China. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 11(11): 14415–14433.

Yang, J.H. & Zheng, X. (2018) A New Species of the Genus Calamaria (Squamata: Colubridae) from Yunnan Province, China. Copeia, 106(3): 485–491.

Li, F., Zheng, X., Jiang, X. & Chan, B.P.L. (2017) Rediscovery of the sun bear Helarctos malayanus in Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. Zoological Research, 38(4): 1-11.