Qinghai takes huge strides toward green future
China DailyVolunteers from the association for ecological and environmental services in Dongba township, Nangqian county, Qinghai province, pose with herdsmen after helping them install guardrails to prevent bear invasions. Province benefits from ecological and environmental advances Namjil, who grew up in a Mongolian yurt, has never seen such a rich abundance and diversity of wildlife roaming his family's pasture in Golmud, Qinghai province. The herdsman is one of more than 145,000 rangers employed in Qinghai to protect the western province's ecology and environment as local authorities step up conservation efforts. Dubbed China's "water tower", Qinghai boasts the sources of Asia's three longest rivers and the Three-River-Source National Park, the nation's first national park, which is located in the Sanjiangyuan region.