Southwest China's Yunnan Province announced on Monday the establishment of a protection network for the province's golden hair monkeys, also known as the black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys.

 

云南省周一宣布，将为滇金丝猴又名云南黑白仰鼻猴，建造一个保护网络。
 

 

The network is the province's first wildlife safety network and will be managed by both the local government and the private sector¹.

 

"Protecting the Yunnan golden hair monkeys and their habitats is of strategic significance for the conservation of global biodiversity and maintaining inter-regional species and ecological² balance," said Xiao Wen, head of the Institute of Eastern-Himalaya Biodiversity Research of Dali University.

 

The monkeys live in the mountainous forests in Yunnan and neighboring Tibet Autonomous³ Region, with most in the Baima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve.

 

As one of the world's most endangered primates⁴, the monkey is considered a bellwether⁵ species for biodiversity in the high-altitude region.

 

Local poachers drove them close to extinction⁶ in the 1980s, but their number has since risen above 3,500 nationally thanks to the joint⁷ efforts of government, researchers and local villagers.

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