The Natural Balance

In a tropical rainforest national park in Hainan Province, the macaques nimbly jump from branch to branch, and wild boars run amok while squirrels and all kinds of birds happily frolic the day away.

The conservation area is among China’s formally established first batch of five national parks. During the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, President Xi Jinping announced on October 12 that China had officially designated its first group of national parks, covering more than 230,000 square km in total and protecting nearly 30 percent of the country’s key wildlife species.

Since the world’s first conservation park, Yellowstone National