Tibet's "Movie Star" Antelope Slowly Rebounding, Expedition Finds
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The rare chiru, once extensively poached for its prized wool, appears to be increasing its population thanks to conservation efforts by Chinese officials and Tibetan locals.
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He scared off wolves with firecrackers in Mongolia and rescued his dog from hungry miners in Kazakhstan. But after three years on horseback, Tim Cope has retraced the route of Genghis Khan and other Asian nomads who crossed into Europe over the centuries.
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LHASA, China  - It is 45 years since Tibet's  god-king, the Dalai Lama, fled his homeland on horseback as  Chinese shells rained down on his capital. Many Tibetans do not  expect to see him again, or not in his current incarnation.
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China has started improving the road to Mount Everest on the Tibet side to make the trip to the world's highest mountain easier for bearers of the Olympic flame, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Forest rangers in the northern Italian Alps have confirmed for the first time the existence of an albino mountain goat &#151; and named him "Snowflake."
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TORONTO - A few years back, Zhang Yimou was a bit miffed that fellow filmmaker Ang Lee was faster on the draw in elevating the martial-arts epic to serious cinema. But now that Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has broken the genre into the mainstream among Western audiences, Zhang is happy to follow his lead...
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp ...
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Levey, who is the lead author of the study, added that the finding is particularly noteworthy because it demonstrates that tool use can substantially benefit a wild animal.
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The endangered Siberian tiger gets a boost, with the birth in captivity of 84 cubs since March this year in China.
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China&#039;s first train from Beijing to Tibet zipped past coal country and farm fields Sunday, turning farmers&#039; heads while making the slow climb to the Himalayan region&#039;s forbiddingly high Tanggula Pass.
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A humpback whale and her calf that have captivated the San Francisco Bay area for two weeks made progress in finding their way back to open waters.  Late Tuesday night, the U.S.
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Unofficial count finds increased Chinese presence in Tibet.
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Scientists analysing 25 years of data find some 80% of animals have extended the northern edge of their ranges.
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The chances of Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama returning to the Chinese-ruled territory are slim, the chairman of the Himalayan region said on Thursday, accusing him of still promoting Tibetan independence.
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By James Gilbert, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 15--Wildlife officials now have a plan for restoring the historically low population of bighorn sheep to the area.
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The Pacific gray whale population, thought by some experts to have rebounded fully from the ravages of whaling, actually is back to a mere fraction of historic levels, scientists said on Monday.
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Envoys of Tibet's spiritual leader, the  Dalai Lama, have been allowed to pay a secretive visit to China  that analysts say could lead to progress in resolving his  decades-old exile.