Tibetan villagers assigned to guard wildlife in a Tibetan prefecture in northwestern China’s Sichuan province have taken into custody four Han Chinese caught poaching endangered animals in protected areas, sources said. The four were detained at around 2:00 a.m. on Jan. 9 near Basu village in Dzoege (in Chinese, Ruo’ergai) county in the Ngaba (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture and were quickly handed over to local officials, a resident of the area told RFA’s Tibetan Service. “The Tibetans confiscated two rifles and a jeep, along with the carcasses of 12 animals the poachers had hunted,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Read more
lørdag 16. januar 2016
Tibetan Villagers Capture Poachers in Protected Areas
Tibetan villagers assigned to guard wildlife in a Tibetan prefecture in northwestern China’s Sichuan province have taken into custody four Han Chinese caught poaching endangered animals in protected areas, sources said. The four were detained at around 2:00 a.m. on Jan. 9 near Basu village in Dzoege (in Chinese, Ruo’ergai) county in the Ngaba (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture and were quickly handed over to local officials, a resident of the area told RFA’s Tibetan Service. “The Tibetans confiscated two rifles and a jeep, along with the carcasses of 12 animals the poachers had hunted,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Read more