Conservation of the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey on the Basis of Research and Education

For effective protection of the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey and other species, Shennongjia National Park has taken measures of conservation on the basis of research and education. By providing food in the food-scarce winter, the Park attracted a group of monkeys for habituation-based research. The Park built a series of open research platforms (Shennongjia Golden Snub-nosed Monkey Field Research Base of the State Administration of Forestry, etc.), provided sufficient logistical and financial support, and became well-known to the academic community for the research conducted on the park species in cooperation with universities and research institutions. The research achievements have been used for popular science education to promote conservation of the rare and endangered species. The Park built exhibition centers to display images, materials, popular science articles and live video of the species so that the general visitors can see the monkeys without disturbing them.