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Tibet disallows `family planning` on wild donkeys
Beijing, Nov 25: Authorities in northern Tibet have rejected demands from local herdsmen for curbing the explosive population growth of wild donkeys in the Himalayan region which are increasingly damaging the pastures, a report said today.
Beijing, Nov 25: Authorities in northern Tibet have
rejected demands from local herdsmen for curbing the explosive
population growth of wild donkeys in the Himalayan region
which are increasingly damaging the pastures, a report said
today.
Though herdsmen in north Tibet kept complaining, their
requests to carry out "family planning" on wild donkeys has
failed to win the approval of local officials in Ngari
prefecture of southwest China's Tibet autonomous region,
Xinhua news agency reported.
Local officials prefer other means to protect herdsmen's interests rather than undertaking such "family planning" demands, saying they were "not appropriate" for the sake of species diversity in Tibet.
"We have too many wild donkeys here in our pasture and they are going to destroy my pasture," Baima Nanjor, a herdsman of the prefecture's Burang county, said.
"I have begged local authorities to implement a 'family planning' policy for the wild donkeys since poaching was declared illegal," he said.
The local legislature in Gegyai, Gerze and Coqen counties of the prefecture has also received similar bills calling for the protection of herdsmen's pastures from wild animals.
Wild donkey in Tibet has been listed as one of China's top protected species since 1996 when local governments in Tibet banned preying of the wild animal.
Bureau Report
Local officials prefer other means to protect herdsmen's interests rather than undertaking such "family planning" demands, saying they were "not appropriate" for the sake of species diversity in Tibet.
"We have too many wild donkeys here in our pasture and they are going to destroy my pasture," Baima Nanjor, a herdsman of the prefecture's Burang county, said.
"I have begged local authorities to implement a 'family planning' policy for the wild donkeys since poaching was declared illegal," he said.
The local legislature in Gegyai, Gerze and Coqen counties of the prefecture has also received similar bills calling for the protection of herdsmen's pastures from wild animals.
Wild donkey in Tibet has been listed as one of China's top protected species since 1996 when local governments in Tibet banned preying of the wild animal.
Bureau Report