KNOW AND BEAT PLASTIC POLLUTION By: Urgen Lhamo
We earmark and commemorate World Environment Day every year on 5th June with oodles of speeches and think pieces about how to tackle the grave issues our planet earth is facing at the moment. If instead, ….
Open essay competition to mark World
Topic: The theme for the competition is “Beat Plastic Pollution”. Contributions are invited on this theme, various interpretations of this topic will be accepted. ….
April 21, 2018: Saturday Lha Charitable Trust in collaboration with Clean Upper Dharamshala (CUDP) and Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) organised a mass clean-up drive to observe World Earth day. This time, we have picked up trashes around Kyirong village site at Tipa road. ….
Sustainability has been defined and practiced for at least 30 years. How relevant is its practice today to the readership of Lha’sContact Magazine (Contact) and Tibet Nature Environmental Conservation Network website (TNECN)?
This article defines the term Sustainability and summarises 6 environmental articles that show sustainability in practice. ….
How do we reduce the wastes and materials we use to ensure wise use of the earth’s limited resources? Lha conducts a monthly mass waste clean-up around McLeod Ganj (refer Contact magazine monthly reports) At Lha’s waste clean-up on 21 October 2017 a lot of solid waste was collected, much from roadside drains, culverts and embankments. Some was old and some new. ….
Soil is a mixture of minerals, organic matter, liquids, gases and organisms that together support life. It is a major part of the earth’s ecosystem (Soil, Wikipedia). How well is this life-giving resource saved in Tibet and Himachal Pradesh? ….
The snow leopard (Panthera Uncia) is an iconic species for many living in the Himalayan region. In much the same way as its close relative the tiger (Panthera Tigris) is for many in India. What is the situation today?
Leopard populations are estimated to number 2-2,500 (SLSS, 2014) in Tibet ….
Clean and GreenLha’s monthly mass clean up for December was held on the 16th with about50 participants, as usual Lha students and volunteers came along to help. This month we picked up litter around the main temple, Kora pathway and below Potala road. Even though we clean the area every month, there is a truck full of garbage every time. ….
Lha staff, students and volunteers gathered on September 16 for a cleanup around the main temple. Around 60 people took part in the day which was a part of our monthly mass cleanup programme. This monthly mass cleanup takes place every third Saturday and all offers of help are very much appreciated. For further ….
By Katherine Kornei Of the roughly 198,000 glaciers on the planet, more than a quarter are found in the Himalayas. But even this frigid expanse of ice and snow—home to nine of the world’s 10 highest peaks—is reeling from climate change. Many Himalayan glaciers are receding—and ….
