After 1985, poachers began to massacre Tibetan antelopes to meet the demand for Tibetan antelope wool in European and American markets. In just a few years, the number of Tibetan antelopes has dropped sharply from one million to less than ten thousand.
We Tibetans eat meat with the knife facing ourselves.
There are too many people who help poachers bring Tibetan antelope wool on this road. We can only confiscate it, and we have no right to arrest people.
Every year we go into the mountains, we have to bury more than 10,000 Tibetan antelopes.
"How much does it cost you to peel a piece of skin?"
"Give me five dollars."
I used to be a herdsman, herding sheep, cattle, and camels. Now the grass has turned into a beach, the cattle and sheep have nothing to eat, the dead are dead, and the ones that are sold are sold. Now people have nothing to eat, so people can't live anymore.
Seeing the lights on the road is like seeing home.
Hoh Xil means "beautiful green hills, beautiful girls" in our Tibetan language.
In Hoh Xil, every footprint you step on may be the first footprint left by human beings since the birth of the earth.
There are people-eating quicksand everywhere.
"It's still not enough."
"Selling skins."
It's your life if you really can't get out.
"Is it cold or not? Put on a fishing net."
"Work clothes."
"What is your biggest difficulty now?"
"No money, no people, no guns. My brothers haven't been paid for a year.
" The one who kowtows? Their hands and faces are very dirty, but their hearts are very clean.
When they entered Hoh Xil, the girlfriend ran away.
Gayu returned to Beijing to write a report that shocked the world. Four team members were arrested for their involvement in the sale of Tibetan antelope cashmere, but were subsequently exempted from criminal charges.
A year later, the Chinese government established a national nature reserve in Hoh Xil and established a forest public security organ. The original volunteer mountain patrol team has since been disbanded.
At present, most countries have enacted legislation to prohibit the sale of Tibetan antelope cashmere. The number of Tibetan antelopes in Hoh Xil has risen to more than 30,000.
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