This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2017-02-09 07:29
Item from Feb 9, 1987, in China Daily: Chinese conservationists have appealed to the nation to protect wild animals and plants in the Changbai Mountains, a nature reserve under State protection.
Between the winter of 1985 and spring of 1986, more than 300 sables were killed by hunters in the Changbai forests, according to the committee for the Protection of the Changbai Conservation Center in Yanbian City, Jilin province. ...
Changbai Mountains, the highest peak in Northeast China, is located on the border between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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