Today (24 October) is International Gibbon Day. At present, there are 20 species of gibbons in the world, of which 6 species are distributed in the tropical and subtropical forests of Hainan, Yunnan and Guangxi in China.
The reporter visited the black-crowned gibbon in Yunnan Province
In the vast rain and fog, reporters and monitors walked into the Infinite Mountain together, following the cries of the west of Yunnan, tracing the traces of the black-crowned gibbon in western Yunnan.
After a breakfast, the ape group began a day of exercise, young and young gibbons jumping up and down, playing and playing, and the adult female apes were grooming the male apes and taking it easy. The western black-crowned gibbon is assessed as critically endangered by the IUCN and is mainly found in and around the Wuliang and Ailao Mountains in yunnan province. In recent years, through new afforestation and other means, the local government has increased the construction of the food source of the western black-crowned gibbon and stabilized the population.
Fan Pengfei, professor of the School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University: The first survey was 98 groups, the second survey was 87 groups, and the results of this survey showed that there were a total of 104 groups of western black-crowned gibbons in the jurisdiction of the three counties of Nanjian, Jingdong and Zhenyuan.
Jiang Xuelong, researcher at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: This is a very important effect of nature reserve protection, and it also reflects the improvement of the local people's awareness of gibbon protection.
【Source: CCTV News Client】
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