Promotion of public awareness

Since 2006, more than 100 research papers on the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey have been published in academic journals, 30 papers were included in the Scientific Citation Index, and 2 papers were published in the Nature. Five national patents have been acquired, six books have been published, and three achievements have won the provincial award for progress in science and technology.

Every year more than 5,000 university students and researchers visit the Research Base for practice or research. Exhibition centers were built to display images, materials, popular science articles and live video of the species so that visitors can see the monkeys without disturbing them. The species was listed in the Top 10 Animals in the News in 2009, many photos have won domestic and international photography awards, famous documentaries have taken shots in Shennongjia, and dozens of major media companies have released stories of the species. 

The locals are now well aware of the importance of the species and human activities threatening the habitat greatly reduced, many locals and visitors have become volunteers, and donations have been received for the conservation of the species. The population of the species and the area of its habitat have significantly increased.

Publishing research achievements to promote the species and its conservation, inviting media to tell the stories, and use the research achievements for popular science education, to promote the public awareness on the species and its conservation.

1. Research achievements needs to be transformed into easy-to-understand popular science education materials.

2. The research base should not be open to general tourists. Only researchers, study-tour groups and media staff are allowed to enter the base after disinfection. All visitors should wear disinfected outfit and stay on the trail to keep distance with the monkeys.

3. Visitors whom the monkeys in the base are not familiar with are not allowed to touch the monkeys.

4. The number of visitors must be controlled and they must be required to keep quiet so that the monkeys won't be frightened.

Shennongjia National Park
Habituation-based research
Building a platform for research
Promotion of public awareness
Shennongjia National Park
Habituation-based research
Building a platform for research
Promotion of public awareness
Scientific research monitoring: building biodiversity monitoring system to help scientific protection and effective management

(1) Integrated Space-Air-Ground biodiversity monitoring system

Space: used satellite remote sensing image to carry out multi-temporal image remote sensing monitoring in the Park, cross-provincial cooperation area and franchise area, and used ground and near-surface remote sensing data to interpret satellite remote sensing image.

Air: used aerial photography with Lidar, CCD high-resolution camera, and hyperspectral image to obtain the near ground remote sensing image of the whole Park.

Ground: established nearly 800 forest plots and set up 507 infrared cameras to carry out grid-level monitoring, covering the whole Park.

 (2) Establishment of National Park Research Institute

To promote the construction in a scientific way, the Park will set up a National Park Research Institute, which will provide support for the scientific, accurate and intelligent construction and management of biodiversity protection in the Park.

(3) Building "Smart National Park"

By utilizing advanced technologies such as remote sensing, big data cloud computing and artificial intelligence, a big data cloud service platform for the Park has been formed. By combining mobile phone terminals with Internet technology, a comprehensive management and service platform for smart national park has been built.

The Park worked together to conduct biodiversity research, public scientific education and practice with domestic and foreign scientific research institutions (Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang University, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Aarhus University, etc), and international environmental organizations (WWF, IUCN, etc).

Ministry of Science and Technology of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Zhejiang Province, and other government departments have provided rich financial support.

At present, people's understanding of the long-term dynamic process of ecosystem is quite limited. The long-term monitoring and research on the typical ecosystems in the national park will deepen people's understanding of these ecosystems, optimize and update the objectives and strategies of national park protection.

Qianjiangyuan National Park Administration
Good management: innovation of system and mechanism for realizing authenticity and integrity protection
Scientific research monitoring: building biodiversity monitoring system to help scientific protection and effective management
Protection and development: dealing with conflicts between human and land correctly and laying the foundation of sustainable development