Highly endangered gibbons in China's Hainan (4)

Hainan Gibbons monitoring team members patrol within the forest of the Bawangling National Nature Reserve in south China's Hainan Province, July 13, 2013. The Bawangling National Nature Reserve is the only nature reserve in China that protects Hainan Gibbons, a highly endangered species that is under first-class state protection. With the advent of three gibbon babies in the first seven months in 2013, the population of the gibbons has risen to 26 here. (Xinhua/Jiang Enyu)