Natural curiosity

Cloud Mountain Conservation, an NGO that focuses on gibbon protection in Yunnan province, also coorganized the exhibition.

Yan Lu, cofounder of the NGO, says the exhibition aims to let people feel the responsibility to protect and care for the nature through realizing its beauty.

Through interpretation by volunteers and interaction in the escape game, Yan hopes both the parents and their children can find the beauty of the animals they used to think are ugly, including some insects and snakes.

"No matter how the animals look like, they have an irreplaceable function and place in the whole ecosystem," she says.

Yan notices one mother brought her child to the exhibition, and she asked Yan many questions about gibbon protection, and the next day, she signed up to be a volunteer of the exhibition.

"I'm touched that through this kind of event we can really influence people, especially the young, who might join the wildlife protection work in the future," she says.

Furthermore, Yan hopes to bring more people closer to nature－to visit remote areas and connect with minorities.

Of course, the final answer as to who is the master of the rainforest is what Yan and her teammates have been protecting for years, the gibbons, more specifically, the hoolock tianxing.