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Baoshan maddertrees only grow in an area of less than 200 square kilometers in the Gaoligong Mountains.it is A critically endangered species.and it has fewer than 100 mature plants now.

Every towering tree was once a tiny sapling. The seeds of the flous taiwania have a length of only 6 millimeters, smaller than a sunflower seed. Yet they can grow into 20-story-high trees.

Over 500 bird species have been reported in the Gaoligong Mountains, accounting for more than half the number in southwest China's Yunnan Province and nearly 40 percent in the country.

According to research, Baihualing Ridge has the world's northernmost and highest tropical rainforest at an altitude of 1,500 meters.

With bright plumage and elegant posture, the purple swamphen stands out among many bird species, dubbed "phoenix in water."

Mostly covered with grass, Beihai Lake looks like a stretch of grassland floating on the water. The wetland expects more wading birds to come and join this vibrant avian party.

With various types of dormant volcanoes, Tenchong County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, is known as the "natural volcanic geological museum."

The complex terrain in the Gaoligong Mountains provides Phayre's leaf monkeys with a natural sanctuary, and an unlimited food supply of abundant plant species.

The Gaoligong hoolock gibbon was the first anthropoid ape named by Chinese scientists. The white lines near its forehead earned it its Chinese name, "white-browed gibbon."