印开蒲

1943年生。现任中国科学院成都生物研究所研究员、四川省人民政府参事、四川省政府科技顾问团顾问。

作者长期在中国西部省份四川工作，兴趣广泛，热爱自然，关爱动物，倡导有节制地利用自然资源，致力于少数民族地区生物多样性和传统文化的保护。20世纪70年代，他是最早提出保护九寨沟生态景观的学者之一。2002年，曾提出“建立岷山大熊猫生命走廊”建议，被政府部门采纳后实施。2008年四川“汶川特大地震”发生后，又提出“高度重视灾后大熊猫栖息地保护”的建议，受到中央政府的关注。

Yin Kaipu (1943-) is a Professor at the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Counselor of the People’ s Government of Sichuan Province and an advisor in Science and Technology for the People’ s Government of Sichuan Province. He has long worked in this Western Chinese Province where he has a wide range of interests, particularly a love of nature. Yin believes in the sustainable use of natural resources, and is an active conservationist, working to preserve the biodiversity and ethnic culture of the region. In the 1970s, he was one of the first scholars to suggest that one of China’s famous natural reserves, Jiuzhaigou, needed to be protected. In 2002, he proposed to establish a living corridor for giant pandas in the Minshan Mountains in order to connect fragmented populations; this proposal was subsequently accepted by government sectors. In 2008, after the Wenchuan Earthquake he made another suggestion, “Attaching great importance to protecting the giant panda after the earthquake”, which was also approved by the Central Government of China.