Tibetan antelope Pantholops hodgsonii conservation and new rangeland management policies in the western Chang Tang nature reserve, Tibet: Is fencing creating an impasse?

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Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-190

  Fox, Joseph L ^a   Dhondup, Kelsang ^b   Dorji, Tsechoe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Tibet Academy of Social Sciences   (China)

^c TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chang Tang Nature Reserve; Chiru; Development policy; Livestock wildlife conflict; Pantholops hodgsonii; Tibet; Tibetan antelope

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GRAZING PRESSURE; HUNTING; LAND USE CHANGE; LIVESTOCK; MINING; NATURE RESERVE; RANGELAND; RUMINANT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ASIA; CHANG TANG NATURE RESERVE; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EQUUS KIANG; PANTHOLOPS HODGSONII; PROCAPRA PICTICAUDATA;

EID: 68349129954     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605308001774     Document Type: Review

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