The Zoigê grasslands may greatly benefit from removing the fences that divide them, but entrenched interests and government policy are pushing in the other direction, reports Feng Hao
By Sarah Weber A special report on the Climate Emergency by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPPC) has highlighted the increased risk posed to Tibet as the “Third Pole”, a climate change…
21st June 2019, London: The President Dr. Lobsang Sangay joined eminent scientist Professor Chris Rapley CBE, Professor of Climate Science at UCL, for a panel discussion on Climate Change and Tibet at University College London’s…
Herders benefit from a vast effort to restore wetlands. But how many yaks is too many for the grassland ecosystem? The yaks are in clover. At times I could see more than a thousand…
-By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen, Environment Research Fellow, Tibet Policy Institute China’s latest white paper on Tibet, once again highlights Beijing’s absolute lack of understanding of Tibet’s History and its unwillingness to read beyond government documents.
Lha organised a talk on Tibet’s Unique Ecosystem at TCV Gopalpur on March 23 with the intention of raising environmental awareness issues in Tibet. Mr Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha, Head of the Environment
There has been a significant rise in the number of people and animals affected by continuing snowstorm since Dec 28 in Yushu (Tibetan: Yulshul) Prefecture of Qinghai Province with corresponding rise in economic losses, according…
The ‘third pole’ is the planet’s largest reservoir of ice and snow after the Arctic and Antarctic. It encompasses the Himalaya–Hindu Kush mountain ranges and the Tibetan Plateau. The region hosts the world’s 14 highest…
DHARAMSALA, Dec 31: China’s White Paper on Tibet’s Environment do not match ground realities, the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) said today at a press conference held here in Dharamsala.
By Nick Hawkins The face of a mountainside near Bolo Township, by Chambo City inJomda County, Eastern Tibet collapsed into the Drichu River (the Yangste in Chinese)on October 11, blocking the river and forming a…