Woman keeps 50-year ties with deer

LHASA — Though it has been seven years since Changchub Lhamo retired, the former ranger often returns to the vast grassland to visit her "ungulate friends."

The 67-year-old member of the Tibetan ethnic group used to work at the Riwoche National Nature Reserve in Riwoche county in the city of Chamdo, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region. Covering 1,206 square kilometers, the reserve was set up to protect red deer, a species under second-class national protection.

The bond between Changchub Lhamo and the red deer dates back over 50 years, after she saved three fawns in the wild when she was 15 years old.