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The China Daily announced that China will be spending $934 million halting an invasion of rats chewing their way across the wetlands on the Tibetan plateau. Through the last ten years, one third of the grasslands in the Sanjiangyun Nature Reserve had been chewed through by rats. This exacerbated erosion around the world’s biggest wetlands. The rats turned pastures into wastelands by eating grass, digging holes, and turning up the earth, making the land utterly useless for herders to raise their animals. The government plans on finding "better poisons or methods which can kill the rodents, but not harm other animals and the environment" and a way to conserve water and relocate the farmers. Over one third of China’s land is damaged by acid rain or soil erosion. This, in turn, will spur on desertification in the north.