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 is greatly improved while the amount 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 endless 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 taken 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 water-sources 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 is facing a sharp decline and even getting worse due to natural and man-made disasters. To protect he fragile environment, China launched a project to protect and construct the Sanjiangyuan Area with a total investment of 7.5 billion yuan in 2005.

(eng.tibet.cn November 25, 2008)