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HELSINKI, Oct. 4-- "At the moment when our guide disappeared in the dense forest, I saw a gibbon standing at the foot of a tree. In the following seconds, I held my breath and felt the sweat dripping." "Suddenly some shadows popped up to the sky, and I turned the 400 mm lens in the direction and caught a rare picture of the animals." It is a narration by Norwegian photographer Roy Mangersnes in his publication of the memory of a photo expedition around the Tongbiguan Nature Reserve in China's Yunnan Province May. The gibbon with white eyebrow shown in Mangersnes' works is a unique endangered wild animal in China, which has just been officially named Sky Walker Gibbon in 2017, said Yin Feng, director of the Department of Science Popularization at China Wildlife Conservation Association. Mangersnes spent several days in the Tongbiguan Nature Reserve and saw the Sky Walkers twice, and every time he had only two or three minutes to take photos of them. The rare experience was shared by Swedish photographer Staffan Widstrand, who participated in a joint project touring China in 2017 and 2016. Once he went through the hardships to reach a place at an altitude of 5,000 meters on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and took pictures of Pallas's cats with a long shot, making the cute animal to become an online star in China. A good photo comes from not only personal effort of a photographer but also the governmental and public support in protecting the wildlife. "All this is a major, positive step for nature conservation in China," Widstrand told Xinhua. | 
