In 2022, Ms. Chu Wenwen from Xinjiang gave the opening day anchor speech at the UN COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity, representing China’s youth born after 1990. She started going out into the field at the age of 9 following her father, a noted wildlife biologist. A graduate of Beijing Forestry University, besides being a KOL which large following and known as the “Beaver Princess” of China, she is also a PhD candidate after founding her animal rescue centre in 2016 in northern Xinjiang. To date, she has rescued many endangered and endemic species of animals and birds. With many accolades at a young age, she is visiting Hong Kong for the first time as guest of the HKU Wong How Man Centre for Exploration. 

Wong and Chu would hold the first 2024 Fountainside dialogue regarding current wildlife conservation efforts in western China and the challenges of her work. Short films would also be shown during the talk, with Q&A to follow.