Mountain patrol in "restricted zone for life" in Hoh Xil

2018-07-23 10:07:00 | From:China Tibet Online

As the car fleet drove out of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, heading west into the vast wilderness of Hoh Xil, the mountain patrol in "restricted zone for life" has officially begun.

After leaving the main road, there are no more asphalt roads in Hoh Xil, and our team's car jolted around between mountains and rivers following tracks left by vehicles over the years.

"Antelope!" Suddenly, following the guidance of Jiangwen Dorje, a member of the patrol team and deputy stationmaster at the Sonam Daje Patrol Station, we inadvertently saw the silhouette of a group of Tibetan antelopes. Fellow patrol team members immediately began to record the number of antelope and their activity in notebooks.

"Normally, there are five to seven people in the mountain patrol team, mainly for anti-poaching and anti-piracy, as well as preventing illegal passage through the no-man's land. In different seasons, the team's specific tasks and patrol routes also differ. Each time it takes about 10 days or half a month for a patrol," a patrol member named Puchong told reporters.

"Anti-poaching efforts have continued to increase, and there hasn't been any poaching gunfire heard in the Hoh Xil Nature Reserve since 2006. The number of Tibetan antelope in the nature reserve has recovered to more than 60,000, an increase of 40,000 since the height of poaching."

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