Yunnan's Golden Monkeys and the Founding of Green Camp

Yunnan's Golden Monkeys and the Founding of Green Camp

Tang Xiyang, Green camp for college students, Golden monkeys, Yunnan, China

In 1996, the year Marcia Marks died, Tang invited 21 university students to spend their summer holidays in Deqin County, Yunnan, where local officials planned to harvest logs on a 100 square mile swath of old-growth forest, the unique habitat of the golden monkey. The virgin forest in this County, where the black snub-nosed monkeys lived, was going to be chopped down. Mr. Tang Xiyang organized a group of young college students to save the endangered forest and the monkeys. Thus, the founding of the "Green Camp for College Students." The research and publicity arising from Tang's Green Camp helped pressure the government to change its course which eventually led to the salvation of the forest and the golden monkeys as well. (Magsaysay Citation)

Tang Xiyang

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