The populations of wild Tibetan antelopes in a naturereserve(保护区) in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Regionhave roughly doubled thanks to the effective protection efforts inthe past 20 years.
The number of Tibetan antelopes inthe area has increased to 150,000 from80,000 when the Qiang-tang NatureReserve was set up in 1993.
However，the strengthened protection efforts have alsomeant more cases of injuries to humans or property lossescaused by wild animals in the nature reserve and its surrounding
But government departments have offered timely help tolocal herdsmen for the losses,which have raised theirenvironmental protection awareness.
Forestry authorities have also taken measures to providemoney to residents in the reserve and confiscated (没收) huntingequipment such as rifles (猎枪).
With an average altitude of more than 5,000 metres, theQiang-tang Nature Reserve has an area of 300,000 squarekilometres.It became a state-level nature reserve in 2000.It is ahabitat for wild animals such as Tibetan antelopes on the stateprotection list.
Questions:
1. What does the passage mainly tell us?
The number of wild Tibetan antelopes in a nature reserve isgrowing steadily.
2.What have forestry authorities done?
Providing money to residents in the reserve and confiscatinghunting equipment.