As of August last year, China has 59 World Heritage sites, including 15 natural heritage sites and four mixed cultural and ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature recognized the Hainan gibbon as an endangered species HAIKOU /China/, October 17. /TASS/. Authorities of the southern Chinese province of Hainan ...

HAIKOU, September 6. /TASS/. The population of Hainan gibbons, which live only on Hainan and are on the verge of extinction, has increased by two, according to an online press conference organized ...

For instance, one of the main areas where you’ll see the gibbons is in the Chinese province of Hainan. That area alone experienced a major population increase between 1950 and 2003, and much of ...

The project draws inspiration from a successful 2015 initiative in China, where conservationists constructed similar rope bridges to help Hainan gibbons navigate forest gaps created by a typhoon.

"The Hainan rainforest is the only habitat of the Hainan gibbon and one of the world's 34 biodiversity hot spots," Lyu said. "It's the most intact continental island-type tropical rainforest in ...