The number of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys, a rare primate species, in Tibet's Mangkam Nature Reserve, has soared to 600 from 50 since the reserves' establishment 24 years ago.
The monkeys mainly live in deep forests or on high mountains in Tibet's Mangkam County and Yunan's Deqin Prefecture, with its number estimated at 2,000 all over the country.
The number of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys, a rare primate species, in Tibet's Mangkam Nature Reserve, has soared to 600 from 50 since the reserves' establishment 24 years ago.
Because of rampant poach, the number of this precious animal plummeted from 2,000 in the 1960s to no more than 60 in the early 1990s, according to the Mangkam County Forestry Bureau.
