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The 2021 Global Biodiversity Month and "Find Nature" exhibition kicked off.

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On October 9, 2021, a ceremony was held to launch the 2021 Global Biodiversity Protection Month and "Find Nature" exhibition at the Shanghai Natural History Museum (a branch of SSTM). On the theme of "Protecting Biodiversity and Discovering a Happy Planet", the event of Global Biodiversity Protection Month will launch a series of online and offline activities, such as initiating a proposal, a scientific exhibition, a live show, a scientific fair, and a scientific drama. The whole event will last until the end of October. 

After the launching ceremony, the guests and the audience visited the "From Wilderness to City — Find Nature" exhibition. The exhibition fully integrated the research projects of the researchers of the Shanghai Natural History Museum, focusing on "Urban Frog Diversity Monitoring" and "Investigation on the Phenomenon of Birds Hitting Glass Wall Accidentally". With the self-developed "Hear All Things" applet and other online tools as a collaborative platform, the exhibition guided visitors to discover, observe, and record nature like scientists, and help the scientific research on urban wildlife diversity.