Across China: Yunnan

Rare monkeys triple

The population of a rare snub-nosed monkey species in a southwest China nature reserve has nearly tripled over the past 26 years, Xie Hongfang, chief of the reserve's administration bureau, said yesterday, the Xinhua news agency reported.

The population of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys in the Baima Snow Mountain Nature Reserve has risen from 500 in 1983 to about 1,300 now with the steady improvement of the ecological environment and crackdown on poaching.