Ninety-eight volunteers across China have applied for
environmental protection activities for 2006 in a nature reserve
famous for endangered Tibetan antelopes in northwestern China, a
source with the reserve said.
The voluntary work, which started registration this January, has
attracted people from different walks of life, such as teachers,
journalists and company clerks, said Cega, director of the Hoh Xil
Nature Reserve Administration.
According to the plan, the administration will conduct a
first-stage voluntary activity, including environmental protection
promotion and ecotourism research, at the end of this May, he
said.
The Hoh Xil Nature Reserve in northwestern
Qinghai Province was established specially for the protection
of the Tibetan antelope, one of China's most-protected species
native to the 600,000-sq-km grasslands at the reserve, the Altun
Mountain in Xinjiang and the Qiangtang Nature Reserve in Tibet.
Since 2002, the reserve has organized a number of environmental
voluntary activities, attracting more than 100 volunteers across
the country.
(Xinhua News Agency March 21, 2006)
