BEIJING, Nov. 25 -- With
the in-depth Sanjiangyuan ecological protection & construction project and
enhancing of public's consciousness to protect wild animals, environment in the
vicinity of the Sanjiangyuan Area has been greatly improved while the number of wild animals is
picking up. With all-out efforts, Sanjiangyuan is really worthy of the
name-"fairyland of wild animal".
It is now no difficult to find groups of wild
animals like Procapara picticaudata and wild Tibetan donkeys seeking for food or
playing in the vast grassland at ease while the herdsmen are herding not far away.
"We can see the number of wild animals has greatly
increased," said Do Tsering, head of Suojia Village of Zhiduo County in Yushu
Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province.
According to Wen De, secretary of Suojia
Village Party Committee, the policy China adopted to protect wild animals and grassland
has caused inconvenience to local herdsmen to some degree, but most of them
understand and support it.
Located in the heartland of
the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Sanjiangyuan Area is the headwater of the Yangtze River, the
Yellow River and the Lancang River with an average height of 4,000 meters above
sea level. For the last half century, the environment around the region has been facing a
sharp decline and even getting worse due to natural and man-made disasters. To
protect the fragile environment, China launched a project to protect and
construct the Sanjiangyuan Area with a total investment of 7.5 billion yuan in
2005.
(Source: eng.tibet.cn)
