Tibetan antelopes live on the plains of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Qinghai.    1    them move slowly across the green grass, I’m struck by their    2    . At the same time, I’m also reminded    3    the danger they are in. They are being hunted,    4    , for their valuable fur.

Zhaxi, a villager from Changtang, works at the Changtang National Nature Reserve. “We’re not trying to save the animals,” he says. “    5    , we’re trying to save ourselves.” The 1980s and 1990s were bad times for the Tibetan antelope.    6    population dropped by more than 50 percent. Hunters were shooting Antelopes to make    7    . Their    8    were becoming smaller as new roads and railways were built.

In order to save them, the Chinese government placed them under national protection. The measures were    9    . The antelope population    10    and in June, 2015, the Tibetan antelope was removed from the endangered species list.