Hyderabad:A new DNA test developed by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) can reliably distinguish between pashmina and banned shahtoosh, protecting both the endangered Tibetan ...

Additionally, the facility discourages the use of prohibited fibers, indirectly contributing to the conservation of the Tibetan antelope (Chiru), whose habitat was previously threatened by the ...

Tibetan Antelope (Chiru): Native to the Tibetan Plateau, this antelope is known for its fine wool, which is used to make shahtoosh scarves. Yangtze Finless Porpoise: An endangered freshwater ...

In China the Tibetan Plateau becomes a vast frozen desert in winter, over four thousand metres up. Here a lone Himalayan wolf is hunting chiru antelope. The antelope can out-run the wolf ...

But it’s illegal. What he’s holding is a shahtoosh, a shawl made from the belly and neck hairs of a rare Tibetan antelope called a chiru. The merchant spoke on the condition of anonymity for ...

Tibetan antelope, also known as chiru, is endemic to the Tibetan Plateau. Tibetan antelopes prefer open alpine flat terrain and cold steppe at an altitude between 3,250 and 5,500 m. Their ...

Shahtoosh shawls are made from the underfur of the chiru or Tibetan antelope, a species whose numbers have been fast plummeting in its home in the Himalaya. An 1894 illustration of a Tibetan antelope.

Tibetan antelope roams the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and eats grass This is a footage about Tibetan Antelope tibetan antelope stock videos & royalty-free footage This is a footage about Tibetan Antelope ...

Eleven and a half years ago, I traveled to the rugged West Kunlun mountain range, located in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, to survey the calving ground of the chiru, or ...