Tibetan Antelopes to Be Well Protected in ChinaThe State Bureau of Forestry and International Fund of Animal-lovers lately made forestry and public security departments in the habitat of Tibetan antelopes a donation of 1.3 million yuan worth of advanced equipment and facilities including GPS orientation instrument for protection of the animals on Qinghai-Teibetan Plateau.Tibetan antelopes are a rare fauna variety living mainly on thinly populated Qinghai-Tibet Tibet Plateau in China, to be placed among the first category of animals put under protection of the state. As recorded, poachers and hunters used to go after the fine fair of Tibetan antelopes, thereby a great reduction of the animals by a yearly amount of over one thousand. On Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there are found now merely 75 thousand antelopes existent. Deputy Director Ma Fu with the State Bureau of Forestry said that from April to May in 1999 the country had organized "Kekexili No.1 Action" to crackdown random killing of antelopes by lawless poachers and hunters and this has won wide acclaim in China and abroad. Owing to the fact that habitats of Tibet antelopes are in remote areas of west China. For a poor backward economy law enforcing departments in the areas have long been in a state not well equipped to meet the demand of the current situation in protection of the animals. To raise the ability to fight the illegal hunting and poaching of antelopes, the State Bureau of Forestry had two million yuan specially allocated. Among these are included 800,000 yuan used in buying hand satellites orientation navigator, police cars, and 30 times telescopes for protection of antelopes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. |
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