（1） ______ a freezing cold day in January 1994，Jiesang Suonandajie gave his life（2） ______ save the Tibetan antelope．By the 1990s the number of the Tibetan antelopes had （3） ______ from millions of them to about 50，000．The reason is that the wool of the Tibetan antelope is the most expensive in the world．For poachers the （4） ______ can be huge．
Often at night，whole herds of antelopes are shot and skinned on the spot，and then the wool is taken to India to make shawls．The shawls are （5） ______ to rich countries in North America and Europe．In the 1990s the Chinese （6） ______ began to protect the antelopes actively．Over the next ten years about 3，000 poachers were（7） ______ and 300vehicles （8） ______ ．Meanwhile，in those countries（9） ______ the shawls are sold，police are getting （10） ______ with the dealers．Since 1997 the antelope population has slowly begun to grow again．