LI Jin-hua

(Department of Biology, Anhui University, Hefei 230039)

Abstract: Primates, as mankindª²related animals, are a kind of unique and interesª² ting tour attractive resources. Though there exist 19 species of primates in China, they are all under endangered status and cited in the list of the first¡ªor second¡ª grade national protected species. Therefore, the contradiction of exploitation and conservation for them is relatively serious. How to resolve the contradiction in order to improve both economic development and primate conservation is an urgentlyª² resolved problem under the current market economic conditions. Based on tourism exploitation for Tibetan monkeys (Macaca thibetana) at Huangshan mountains, Anhui Province, the paper discusses the dialectical relation between tourism exploitation and conservation, and proposes some problems that should be taken notice of and measures to cope with them in such a tourism exploitation.

Keywords: primate, tour exploitation, economic development, conservation, relation