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| Nature Reserve for Golden Monkeys Set up in Tibet |
| 日期:2003-09-24 17:04 编辑: system 来源： |
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China has established a state-level nature reserve to protect the rare golden monkey in the southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region.
Located in the Markam county in Qamdo prefecture, eastern Tibet, the reserve covers 185,000 hectares and is home to approximately 750 golden monkeys.
The total number of golden monkeys worldwide is estimated to be over 1,000.
Li Hong, an noted engineer with the natural protection department of the autonomous regional forestry bureau, said that zoologists discovered traces of golden monkeys in the area in the late 1980s. More than 120 other animal species have also been spotted in the Qamdo area.
Local government opened a nature reserve for golden monkeys in the area in 1993.
High quality facilities would be built to protect the golden monkeys within the next three years, Li said.
Tibet is home to more than 7,200 wild plants and 773 kinds of vertebrates, 125 species of which have been listed under the state protection. Of the total wildlife species, Tibetan antelopes, wild yaks and Tibetan wild asses are native to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, renowned as the "roof of the world".
Thanks to the efforts the state has made to protect wildlife in Tibet, the number of Tibetan antelopes in Qiangtang Nature Reserve, in northern Tibet, has risen to 5,890 from 3,900 in 1991, and the number of Tibetan wild asses has increased from 224 to some 2,240. Large increases were also reported in the number of yaks and other wild animals. |
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