It Takes Just One Village to Save a Species
Chongzuo, Guangxi Province, China 中国广西省崇左市
2008-09-22 Monday
Biologist Pan Wenshi has spurred economic investment from the Chinese government and Western organizations to benefit the residents of Chongzuo, who in turn have helped Pan and his students by protecting the endangered white-headed langurs living in the local nature reserve. The white-headed langur faced extinction under habitat destruction and hunting, with the population dropping from 2,000 in the 1980s to 96 in 1996, when Pan first came to study them. Today the population has rebounded to more than 500.
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