近年,随着天然林保护、重点公益林建设、退耕还林、退牧还草、河谷林封育等林业重点工程在阿勒泰地区的全面实施,林木数量急剧增加,森林覆盖率逐年上升,但随之出现了草兔种群急剧增加并呈现泛滥成灾之势,导致一些新造林地及草地遭到严重破坏,给林业、农业和牧业发展 In recent years, with the full implementation of forestry key projects such as natural forest protection, key public welfare forest construction, returning farmland to forestry, returning grazing land to pasture and valleys of forests in the Altay area, the number of trees has increased dramatically and the forest coverage rate has risen year by year. There has been a dramatic increase in the population of rabbits and the emergence of widespread flooding that has led to the severe destruction of some newly afforested and grasslands and the development of forestry, agriculture and animal husbandry