In March 2012, after a successful legal challenge at the High Court, they announced that the actor Martin Shaw would become their official patron.
Although the threat to the Snub-nosed monkeys of Deqin County has passed, the students fear that unrestrained clear-cutting in nearby areas will continue to cause severe environmental damage.
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Chinese media reports pointed to the slash-and-burn agriculture of the local people as the cause of the devastation of the Snub-nosed monkey habitat, but did not mention the much more important role of the Deqin County timber company.
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In December, 1995 the students came together in a "Save the Snub-nosed monkey" campaign and planned their first joint environmental action.
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The group aimed to learn how to protect the Snub-nosed monkey by studying the ecology, economics and society of the very poor Tibetan minority region on near China's international boundary with Burma and Yunnan Province's internal border with the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Investigators examine the Metepec creature found in the Mexican town of Metepec, the Montauk Monster found washed up in Long Island, New York, a mummy with an elongated head found by an anthropologist in the Peruvian Andes and a pale, snub-nosed creature seen by four teenage Panamanian boys.
In a snub to India, Nepal's Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan requested a high level Chinese delegation visiting Kathmandu to extend the Tibet rail into Nepal.
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They suspected that the snub was revenge for his inadvertent causing of a diplomatic incident between Pope Pius XII and Joseph Stalin in 1950, when he revealed Pius's private belief that communism was likely to collapse and his views on Stalin, during a press conference after a papal audience.