article_snippet: In 2008, the animal was listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
article_snippet: The research, published in 2005, recommended that the animal should be listed as endangered.
article_snippet: The Department for Wildlife and Forest Plants Protection, under the Ministry of Forestry, said it was in the process of updating China's List of Wildlife under Special State Protection -- part of the country's 1988 Wildlife Protection Law but declined to give any further details.
article_snippet: Li Weidong and Li Weidong volunteers have been calling for the establishment of a nature reserve to help protect the animal.