STORY: Tibetan antelopes migrate to NW China's Hoh Xil
SHOOTING TIME: July 6, 2024
DATELINE: July 19, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:38
LOCATION: XINING, China
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT

SHOTLIST:
1. STANDUP (English): PEMA YANGTSO, Xinhua correspondent
2. various of the Tibetan antelopes
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHAO XINLU, Forest police officer in Hoh Xil
4. various of the Tibetan antelopes

STORYLINE:

STANDUP (English): PEMA YANGTSO, Xinhua correspondent
"I'm here at Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Every year, tens of thousands of pregnant Tibetan antelopes migrate to Hoh Xil between May and July to give birth and leave the area together with their offspring in August."

With an average altitude of over 4,600 meters, Hoh Xil is home to various wild animals and is reputed to be a "wildlife paradise."

This year's migration of Tibetan antelopes started on May 7 and has entered its peak period, when more than 800 Tibetan antelopes cross the Qinghai-Xizang Highway each day.

To strengthen the protection of wild animals, the Hoh Xil Sonam Dargye Conservation Station set up a wildlife rescue center in 2002, stepping up efforts to take good care of rescued baby Tibetan antelopes.

SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHAO XINLU, Forest police officer in Hoh Xil
"Some of the rescued Tibetan antelopes have just been born. After being rescued, the Tibetan antelope babies are fed with milk a few times a day, like our own children. When they grow up, they will be sent back to nature."

Now under first-class state protection in China, the once-endangered Tibetan antelope is mostly found in Qinghai, Xizang and Xinjiang. The population has increased over the past three decades thanks to habitat improvement measures and a ban on illegal hunting.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Xining, China.
(XHTV)