We obtained total livestock numbers for all eight xiangs in Gerze County that use the reserve but not the numbers of sheep, goats, yaks, and horses for three of these xiangs; we also lack data for a few xiangs in Rutog County, in the western tip of the reserve, and in Amdo County, at the eastern end (table 15.2).
Bird Islet is located on Pangong Tso Lake in Rutog County in the north of Ngari Prefecture. The lake is 4,242 meters above sea level and is called "Com Ngangla Renbo" in Tibetan, meaning "beautiful, long and narrow lake."
2016 September 8, Kata Karáth, “Climate change could be to blame for an unusual avalanche in Tibet that can be seen from space”, in Quartz[3], archived from the original on 09 September 2016[4]:
On July 17, a glacier in Rutog county in western Tibet suddenly slid, causing one of the largest ice avalanches ever documented. About 3,500 cubic feet of ice and rocks cascaded through a narrow valley, killing nine herders along with more than 350 sheep and 110 yaks in the remote village of Dungru.
"Gou shi! Peng, where are they?" Peng stood at a large wallmap of the region, estimating the intersection of the Harbin's reported sighting." "The last reported position was in western Tibet," Peng replied, "near Bangong Co. The nearest village is Rutog."
