On September 5, local time, the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park Administration announced at the Seventh World Congress of Nature Conservation in Marseille, France, that the “critically endangered” species Hainan Gibbon will add another baby ape this year after adding a baby ape in 2020.
On September 5th, at a joint press conference held in Haikou and Marseilles, Chinese and foreign experts also jointly launched the "Hainan Gibbon Case Study Report", which discussed the protection of Hainan Gibbon by China at the national and local levels over the past 40 years.
Susan Cheney, deputy head of the primate expert group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) who participated in the study, believes that the successful experience of protecting Hainan gibbons shows that it is necessary to make full use of public resources, actively carry out international cooperation, and insist on "based on Natural solutions" and strengthen local awareness and participation in species protection
Chairman There are currently 20 species of gibbons in the world known to exist in 11 countries in Asia
Since the establishment of Hainan Bawangling Nature Reserve in 1980, the protection of Hainan gibbons has been gradually implemented at the legislative and operational levels
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