Tag «wild yaks»

Tibet: nature yak

Nature Tibetan yak (野牦牛) used to be prevalent over the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, by having an historic range stretching from northern India and Nepal, and through the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Sichuan, Qinghai and Xinjiang. It had been present in Kazakhstan, Mongolia and areas of southern Russia before the 1700s, though any real trace from it …

Wild yak

Class One Protected Species under China&rsquos national legislation, CITES Appendix I. Nature yak has a huge role in Tibetan culture. Presently, there aren’t any precise statistics for that wild yak population globally, but scientists estimate the populace to become about 15,000 to twenty,000, mostly inhabiting the Northern Tibet Grassland. Nature Yak (Bos mutus) lives at …