tibet third pole

The Earth's Third Pole

Called the Earth's Third Pole by scientists, as only the North and South poles hold more glacially stored freshwater, the Tibetan Plateau is undergoing climate change twice as fast as the rest of the world. Glacier meltdown across Tibet is disrupting downstream water supplies, threatening the sustainable livelihoods of Tibetan nomads and villages, and putting the lives of more than one billion downstream peoples and communities across south and east Asia at risk.

China's Policy of Displacing Tibetan Nomads Exposed

China's Policy of Displacing Tibetan Nomads Exposed from Students for a Free Tibet on Vimeo.

Tibetan Nomads

Tibet's nomads, who have already lived sustainably on the Roof of the World for thousands of years, are thus essential to the long-term restoration, conservation and health of the very ecosystems and resources that China so desperately craves - and for which China invaded Tibet in 1949. Yet China continues to crush any voice, in Tibet and around the world, that dares speak up for Tibet's environment, for Tibetans' environmental human rights, and for all downstream communities affected by China's actions.

Read "TIBET’S NOMADIC PASTORALISTS: Tradition, Transformation, and Prospects" by John Isom , member of Tibet Third Pole Campaign Group.

tibet third pole

The Earth's Third Pole

China's Policy of Displacing Tibetan Nomads Exposed

Tibetan Nomads

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