A Yunnan snub-nosed monkey is pictured in the Baima Snow
Mountain Nature Reserve, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of southwest
China's Yunnan Province, May 14, 2013. With the steady improvement of local
ecological environment, the population of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys have
reached over 1,000. The monkey, on the country's top protection list, is one of
the three types of endangered snub-nosed monkeys which make their home in
southwest China - Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. The Yunnan monkey currently has a
population of about 2,000, mainly in Diqing and part of neighboring Tibet
Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Liang Zhiqiang)