Designated by UNESCO in 1986, the Fanjingshan Biosphere Reserve is the only home on Earth for the Guizhou snub-nosed monkey, a rare and ancient primate found nowhere else. The reserve is set atop rocks shaped by 1.4 billion years of geological evolution.
Located in Guizhou Province in southwest China, it covers an area the size of 13 Macaus. Its elevation ranges from 480 to 2,572 meters, and its subtropical forests and cloud-kissed peaks form rich, multilayered habitats.
This area is home to 4,789 species of wild plants and 3,136 species of wild animals. It is a refuge for relict, rare, endangered, and endemic species. It includes the Fanjingshan fir, a species found nowhere else on Earth. It provides hundreds of millions of cubic meters of clean freshwater to 4.3 million local people.
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