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Seven men poached 12 wild yaks in the Hoh Xil Reserve, each of which cost about 500,000 yuan, and the seven men were eventually sentenced to 11 years, 10 years, 8 years, 7 years, 6 years, 5 years, and 4 years.
Is this verdict fair, and are the seven men wronged?"
As soon as this news came out, it immediately sparked heated discussions from all walks of life.
So are the seven men sentenced wronged?
So why are wild yaks poached?
What are the unique values?
And in order to protect the wild yaks, are these 7 men wronged?
1. 12 wild yaks were poached.
In 2017, a group of seven men poached 12 wild yaks in the Hoh Xil Reserve, and the seven men were sentenced to 11 years, 10 years, 8 years, 7 years, 6 years, 5 years, and 4 years in prison.
Two years later, in 2019, seven men were caught by the police and sentenced to 15 years in prison, while the remaining six were sentenced to 10 to 11 years, and one of them is still on the run.
How did these people poach 12 wild yaks?
And why are these people sentenced to prison terms?
And how did the wild yak become the prey of these seven men?
The wild yak is a national first-class protected animal in the mainland, which is mainly distributed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Hoh Xil is a national nature reserve in the mainland, which is the only plateau wildlife nature reserve with the largest coverage, the highest altitude and the most complete vegetation in the world.
The number of wild yaks in the 70s was about 20,000, but in the 70s of the last century, only the Hoh Xil population in the Hoh Xil Reserve remained, about 3,000 of them.
The wild yak population is extremely scarce, and since then, through the efforts of all parties, the number of wild yaks has gradually increased, but in 2013, the state recounted the number of wild yaks, and found that the number of wild yaks has reached about 6,600 in 2017.
In 2020, the number of wild yaks reached about 8,000, but although the number of wild yaks has increased, they are still a rare species, so they are endangered and listed as a national first-class protected animal.
The reason why the number of wild yaks is scarce is mainly because the population of wild yaks is relatively scarce, and the breeding speed is relatively slow, and the living environment of wild yaks is also very harsh, so the number of wild yaks is relatively scarce.
In the past, the wild yak was also called a kind of "yak", the wild yak mainly lives between 3,500 meters and 6,000 meters above sea level, is a kind of cattle on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the number of wild yak is also the largest.
The wild yak is a very tenacious animal, so it has become a "hero" on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the number of wild yaks is also increasing, but at the end of the 19th century, due to the contradictions between the mainland and the British in the Qinghai-Tibet region, finally in 1904, the British began to invade the Qinghai-Tibet region.
The British troops began to massacre wild yaks on a large scale, and about a million wild yaks were slaughtered, which led to a sharp decline in the number of wild yaks, and the wild yaks in many places were almost extinct, and due to the sharp decline in the number of wild yaks, they gradually became "rare animals".
2. Why are wild yaks poached?
In addition, the relevant departments also investigated the reasons for poaching wild yaks, and found that after the wild yaks were poached, most of the wild yak carcasses had been destroyed, and the seven men also divided the wild yak carcasses one by one, and then sold them separately.
The local police also conducted an autopsy on the carcasses of these wild yaks, and found that 8 of the 12 wild yaks were female wild yaks, and the other 4 were male wild yaks, and one of the 12 wild yaks was pregnant at that time.
The udders of the female wild yak were also cut off, these are to sell the calf in the belly of the wild yak, and the udder of these calves can also be sold, while the male yak is cut off by people, and some local people also told the police that these people are from Sichuan, and some people say that the horns of these wild yaks can also be sold.
Moreover, when the police were still arresting these people, they also found that some people still had tools to dissect the carcasses of wild yaks, and these people also wrote their names and contact information on the carcasses of wild yaks.
One of these men has fled, and five of the seven men are from Sichuan, while the other two are from Gansu, and all seven men came to the Hoh Xil Reserve to poach because of their "greed for money".
At the same time, these seven men came to poach wild yaks because of the relatively poor economic conditions of their families, so the seven men were given lenient punishments, and the seven men would also confess, so they were given light punishments.
However, in 2019, these 7 men all retracted their crimes, and also pushed the charges to a man named Zhang, and after the police searched Zhang's home, they found that the crimes they said were all lies.
As a result, the police imposed heavier penalties on the seven men, one of whom was sentenced to 15 years in prison, while the remaining six were sentenced to prison terms ranging from four to 11 years.
3. The difference between wild yak and domestic yak.
The reason why the number of wild yaks is scarce is that the breeding rate of wild yaks is relatively slow, while the domestic yak is the opposite, the number of domestic yaks is very large, mainly because the domestic yak breeds very quickly.
In the rural areas of the mainland, the number of domestic yaks is very large, and the number of domestic yaks is still increasing, so cattle farmers will sell some of their own cattle, and in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there are also a lot of people who raise domestic yaks.
There are many differences between the wild yak and the domestic yak in addition to the difference in quantity, the wild yak is a relatively wild animal and lives in the wild, while the domestic yak is a more docile animal and lives in the human world.
The wild yak is larger and has a tall hump and very thick hair, mainly to protect against cold weather, while the domestic yak has no hump and has less hair.
Moreover, the temperament of the domestic yak is also relatively mild, while the temperament of the wild yak is more ferocious, so in contact with the wild yak, everyone must protect themselves, after all, the wild yak is a national first-class protected animal.
In the past 50 years, the wild yak population has also increased year by year, and the number of wild yaks has also increased from 3,000 to about 8,000, and the number of wild yak has also increased year by year.
And the wild yak population is also the largest, and the wild yak population is also increasing, but the number of wild yak is still scarce, so it needs to be protected, and the importance of protecting the wild yak is self-evident.
epilogue
Protecting wild yaks is not only to protect the survival of species, but also related to the balance of the entire ecosystem, the coexistence of human beings and nature, and the protection of wild yak is not only to protect the living environment of wild yaks, but also to protect the living environment of human beings.
The protection of endangered species requires the joint efforts of the government, the public and everyone, and we should also be aware of the impact of our actions on the ecological environment and wildlife, and actively participate in the conservation work, so as to help build an ecological environment where humans and nature coexist in harmony.