China is to spend around $934 million on repelling an invasion of rats eating their way across fragile wetlands on the Tibetan plateau.The China Daily, reports that over the past decade, rats had chewed through one third of the grasslands in the massive Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve in remote western Qinghai province, exacerbating erosion around the world's highest and largest wetland
The government funds to save Sanjiangyuan would be spent on developing "better poisons or methods which can kill the rodents, but not harm other animals and the environment" and would also go towards water conservation and relocating farmers, the China Daily said.
