More than 30 deer released to appease China's tigers
By Wu Yong and Han Junhong in Wangqing, Jilin | China Daily | Updated: 2012-07-30 08:06
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Top: Personnel from the World Wild Fund for Nature and the Forestry Department of Jilin Province open a fence to release deer into the wild at Wangqing Nature Reserve in Jilin on Sunday. Zhang Ke / for China Daily Above: A red deer was returned to the wild at Wangqing Nature Reserve on Sunday as part of a tiger recovery project. Zeng Ming / for China Daily |
More than 30 captive red and sika deer were released into the wild on Sunday in Northeast China's Wangqing Nature Reserve, in a bid to reestablish the food chain for wild Siberian tigers.
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