Two 800ft-long footbridges will let monkeys cross from mountain to mountain in
China's Henan province.
A colony of 500 rhesus monkeys will soon be able to cross between two Chinese
mountains using a pair of footbridges.
The monkeys, who live in a nature reserve at Taihang mountain in Henan
province, will be divided later this year by a new 12 mile-long water
reservoir.
More than 3,000 Chinese villagers have already been moved out of the area in
order to accommodate the reservoir, receiving a total of £900,000 in
compensation for their flooded homes.
But the local government will now spend more than half as much again - another
£500,000 - on two footbridges so that the monkeys can move freely around
their habitat.
"The bridges are just for the monkeys, no humans allowed," said Wang
Xiangdong, a director at the nature reserve.
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