China’s endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys have joined pandas as diplomatic envoys to Europe. These rare monkeys, native to central China, are now on a 10-year loan to zoos in France and Belgium. Within China, the golden snub-nosed monkeys today live across a swath of central and southwestern China that includes parts of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Hubei provinces. At the Shennongjia National Park in Hubei, conservation efforts since the 1980s have helped increase the region’s population threefold to around 1,600 monkeys today. The golden snub-nosed monkeys now at zoos in France and Belgium are so far the only ones outside of Asia.