Guizhou's Mount Fanjing National Nature Reserve listed on IUCN's green list

Mount Fanjing is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Guizhou's Tongren. [Photo by Hu Panxue/For China Daily]

Mount Fanjing National Nature Reserve in Tongren, Southwest China's Guizhou province, was recently included on the green list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The green list is a global program established by the IUCN to promote biodiversity conservation based on natural protected areas. It sets systematic standards for measuring the management status of protected areas.

The inclusion of Mount Fanjing National Nature Reserve in the green list is an international recognition of its conservation efforts and its significant role as a demonstration site in global biodiversity conservation.

Mount Fanjing is a World Natural Heritage site, a Biosphere Reserve, a national nature reserve, and a national 5A-level tourist attraction. It covers an area of 775 square kilometers, and boasts a typical and intact subtropical primary forest ecosystem, with 7,925 species of wild flora and fauna.

It houses a significant number of ancient relicts, rare and endangered species, and endemic species. It is the world's sole habitat for the Guizhou snub-nosed monkey and the Fanjingshan fir, showcasing the rich biodiversity of the isolated mountainous ecosystem in the central subtropics.

In recent years, by combining resource protection with the development of people's livelihoods, Tongren has implemented mechanisms to realize the value of ecological products, promote the transformation of ecological product values, and benefit the public through shared interests, ecological compensation, and other means.