The
reserve is located at the southeast
corner of the Tibetan Plateau, at the
juncture of two parts of the Himalaya
Mountain Range. Its aim is to protect
the subtropical evergreen latifoliate
forest, rare subtropical animals and
the high-yield Yunnan pine forest. It
is warm and humid, with a great variety
of species and a relatively complete
forest ecological system.
Zaya
Nature Reserve
The reserve consists of the Ciba Gully
Nature Reserve, Shuzhub Village Nature
Reserve and Lhamo Lungba Nature Reserve.
No people live there. The Ciba Gully
Nature Reserve is for protecting the
natural ecological system, Yaozhu Village
Nature Reserve is for protecting high-yield
tropical primitive coniferous forest.
The forest of Yunnan pine trees has
an intact primitive landscape, with
a regular forest. The total stock volume
of trees is about 200,000 cubic meters,
an average of over 1,200 cubic meters
per hectare. Various growth factors
are four to five times of the counterparts
in other places of China. The Lhamo
Lungba Gully Nature Reserve is for protecting
the subtropical evergreen latifoliate
forest. The primitive forest landscape
is well preserved here. It is a haunt
of rare wild animals, such as the Bangladesh
tiger, bear, leopard, pangolin, golden
monkeys.
Vulture and python. Before the reserve
was established, some hunters used to
frequent the area, which resulted in
the reduction of rare, wild animals.
With the establishment of the reserve,
hunting has been stopped, and the population
of wild animals has increased.
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