Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Beer company threatens Tibetan antelope

Snow Beer is offering customers an expedition to the Tibetan Plateau that is supposedly off-limits to everyone except scientists

A promotion for the world's best-selling beer encroaches on the protected breeding ground of the Tibetan antelope, according to Chinese conservationists who are campaigning against the commercial exploitation of one of the planet's most unique nature reserves.

Snow Beer – which is partly owned by the London-based SABMiller brewery company – is offering its customers an expedition to Kekexili, a remote region high on the Tibetan Plateau that is supposed to be off-limits to everyone except scientists with permission from the national government.

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