Global News - April 2008
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Chinese claims Tibetan antelope numbers have increased
Tue 22 April 2008 14:00 UK — Asia,Equines
Better policing and improved environment policies have helped the population of a rare species of antelope in a Chinese nature reserve drastically increase.
The state Xinhua news agency reported that the number of Tibetan antelopes in the Hol Xil reserve in north-west China has increased from 20,000 to 60,000 in the last ten years.
According to the director of the Hol Xil Natural Reserve Administration in Qinghai Province, the rise was helped by better environmental policies and increased anti-poaching efforts.
He told the news agency that 300 patrols in the last decade have cracked more than 100 cases of armed poaching and seized approximately 4,000 Tibetan antelope furs.
What's more, the director explained that armed officers now guard the Tibetan antelopes during their migration.
Native to the Tibetan plateau, the antelopes are targeted by poachers, who use their skins to produce shahtoosh shawls.
The shahtoosh is currently listed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. This means that the animals are highly endangered and that all international trade in the antelopes and their products is banned.
As well as poaching, the animals are in danger as a result of competition with local domesticated herds and the development of their habitats for gold mining.
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