梵淨山作爲一個比較完整嘅物種“基因庫”，二十世紀三、四十年代就引起中外科學家極大關注。六、七十年代，政府組織專家多次進行大規模科學考察。1978年，梵淨山正式成為貴州省自然保護區。1986年，升級做國家級重點自然保護區，又俾聯合國教科文組織接納爲國際“人與生物圈計劃”（MAB）成員。
As a relatively complete uranium gene bank of uranium, Fanjing Mountain attracted great attention from Chinese and foreign scientists in the thirties and forties of the twentieth century. In the sixties and seventies, the government organized experts to conduct many large-scale scientific investigations. In 1978, Fanjing Mountain officially became a nature reserve in Guizhou Province. In 1986, it was upgraded to a national key nature reserve and was accepted by UNESCO as a member of the international Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB).