New Wild Camel Found on Chinese Nuclear Test Site. “A new species of camel that has adapted to survive on salt water has
been discovered in a remote region of salty sand dunes on the edge of
the Tibetan mountains. The wild camels were found in the middle of the
inhospitable and dangerous Kum Tagh sand dunes in China’s Xinjiang
province, north of Tibet…. The area in which they live was used by China for nuclear weapons
testing and has been, since 1955, off limits to people, allowing the
unique wild camels to survive. Since 1996 when tests were ended, miners
and hunters have been sowing land mines around the camels’ salty water
holes to take them for meat.” Environment News Service