Since 1995, Green Across the Pacific's Executive Director, Peter Lynch, has been engaged in a variety of highly successful exchange and apprenticeship programs in Hong Kong, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, and Vermont. Green Across the Pacific evolved from a field biology and apprenticeship program which brought five students from Fair Haven Union High School to Hong Kong to study with professional and amateur field biologists of The Conservation Agency, Jamestown, Rhode Island, during the summer of 1995. During the summer of 1996, this apprenticeship program included a visit to the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University (Hua Shi Fu Zhong- HSFZ), Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China. Program director Peter Lynch and Principal Wu Yingmin of HSFZ agreed to establish a summer exchange program in field biology and natural resource management.