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XINING Hydro Flask Coffee 20 Oz Coffee Lava UK , Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Every time the patrollers pass the Sonamdaje monument on Kunlun Mountain, they stop to pay their respects the Tibetan way, offering hadas and barley wine.


Sonamdaje, a former official in Qinghai Province of northwest China, was shot to death by poachers when patrolling the Hoh Xil region in 1994.


With an average altitude of over 4,600 meters, the inhospitable Hoh Xil is an ideal habitat for endangered Tibetan antelopes and other wildlife such as Tibetan gazelles and wild yaks. The region was added to the world heritage list last month.


The area was beset by poachers in the 1980s Hydro Flask 10 OZ Wine Tumbler UK , who hunted Tibetan antelopes for their hide, which was made into expensive shahtoosh shawls. Each shawl, priced as high as 50,000 U.S. dollars, was made at the expense of the lives of three to five antelopes.


The antelope population declined sharply from 200,000 to 20,000 due to the illegal hunting.


Local people began riding yaks to patrol the mountain in 1992. When the Hoh Xil nature reserve was set up in 1996 Hydro Flask Wine UK , a 16-person patrol team was set up. Currently, over 70 people are employed by the nature reserve to patrol the mountains.


The patrols are dangerous. Besides the steep mountainous roads and dangerous wetland and marsh, the patrollers also have to face the threats of guns and wild animals.


Zhao Xinlu has been patrolling the area for 20 years. He recalls catching a gang of poachers all armed with rifles.


"We were not as well-equipped as they were, and the seized rifles were all loaded," he said.


A dozen years ago, Zhao and his team seized over 500 antelope skins, but the smell of blood soon attracted a pack of wolves.


"They followed us to our vehicles and surrounded us at night Hydro Flask 18 OZ Wide Mouth UK ," he said. "We fired shots into the air to scare them away."


Thanks to intensive protection efforts, the antelope population is now back over 60,000.


"Ten years ago, tourists asked me what the antelopes look like. Now they ask whether an antelope is male or female," said patroller Lodro Cering, while feeding a baby antelope with a bottle of milk.


In the protection station where Lodro works, patrollers are taking care of seven baby antelopes.


Starting every June Hydro Flask 32 OZ Wide Mouth UK , when it is time for antelopes to give birth and migrate, patrollers save a number of antelopes who are either ill or orphaned. Since 2001, they have saved over 500 antelopes.


Besides professional patrollers, thousands of local villagers are employed by the local government as part-time rangers to clean up garbage and protect local wildlife.


Herder Dawa is a ranger in Zhiduo and is paid 1,800 yuan (270 U.S. dollars) each month.


"Although we were asked to keep less cattle to help the environment on the grassland, our income has increased thanks to the new job. It's great to see the grassland turning cleaner and the wildlife population growing," Dawa said.


Hoh Xil is facing new challenges posed by climate change Hydro Flask 40 OZ Wide Mouth UK , said Budro, head of Hoh Xil nature reserve administrative bureau.


"The thawing icebergs have led to overflowing local lakes, forming new lakes totalling about