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Eco-Tourism Training Program Begins in the Qomolangma (Everest) National Nature Preserve (QNNP)

Posted on Fri, 12/18/2009 – 23:30

Tibet, China – The Pendeba Society, a new non-profit organization registered in Shigatze, Tibet, focuses on poverty reduction and nature conservation through a new eco-tourism training program in the Everest region. As a Tibetan support network for Pendebas (volunteer conservation and community service workers), the Pendeba Society will provide training in a range of skills ranging from basic spoken English and hospitality to key conservation concepts.

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Interview with Dr. Robert Fleming on Tibet's little known biodiversity

Posted on Mon, 03/09/2009 – 22:11

Future Generations Graduate School professor, Dr. Robert Fleming, was recently interviewed by the Chinese Xinhua news service. In the interview he discusses the dramatic increases in wildlife populations he has observed since the establishment of community-based conservation programs in Tibet.

"The Tibet Autonomous Region is one of the most innovative and successful conservation areas in the whole world -- certainly it is the leader for all of China with the most cost-effective approach," said Fleming.

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Chinadialogue.Net Features Sustainability lessons from Tibet

Posted on Mon, 02/23/2009 – 22:51

Chinadialogue is the bilingual source of high-quality news, analysis and discussion on all environmental issues, with a special focus on China. A recent article (February 18, 2009) featues the conservation efforts of Future Generations in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Highlights include:

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Tibetan and Chinese Editions of Across the Tibetan Plateau Released in Beijing

Posted on Thu, 01/15/2009 – 19:12

BEIJING, CHINA – The Chinese and Tibetan versions of Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation were officially released in Beijing on January 14, 2009, with a book launch hosted by Future Generations China and the Science and Technology Department of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The Tibetan version is published by the China Tibetology Publishers and copies will be donated to schools across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), starting with 1,000 books from the first printing.

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Tibet, China Conservation

In 20 years, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China has achieved major conservation success. Today 40 percent of the land area is protected with the active participation of local people as conservation stewards.

In addition:

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Lungs of Lhasa

The Lhasa Wetlands National Nature Preserve, known locally as Lhalu, is the highest urban wetland in the world. Spreading beneath the Potola Palace, this 1,605 acre protected area not only preserves open space but provides critical ecological services as the "lungs of Lhasa."

Future Generations provides training and support to the Tibetan Plateau Biology Institute to preserve the remaining wetlands within the capital city of Lhasa.

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Pendeba Program, China

Pendeba is a new Tibetan word for “worker who benefits the village.”

Pendebas are local volunteers who work to improve daily life within China’s protected areas. Future Generations partners with the Tibet Department of Science and Technology and a new non-profit organization known as the Pendeba Society to provide training in:

primary health
sanitation
nutrition
income generation
conservation concepts

The Pendeba is the local person whom these remote communities can turn for help. Pendebas:

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Qomolangma (QNNP) National Nature Preserve

The Qomolangma (Everest) National Nature Preserve, a park the size of Massachusetts, is home to the world’s highest mountains and 86,000 Tibetans. Future Generations staff helped develop and ten years later revise a master plan for this protected area.

It was among the first protected areas in the world with no outside wardens, relying instead upon stewardship by local people.

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Four Great Rivers

Southeastern Tibet has a great “sea of forests” that contains 1/7th of all the timber reserves of China. The once rapid deforestation of the region was banned to protect the upper watersheds for four of Asia’s greatest rivers: the Yangtze, Salween, Mekong, and Brahmaputra.

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CBC video: Saving Tibet's Great Rivers

Posted on Tue, 01/08/2008 – 01:07

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Senior Asia Correspondent, Patrick Brown, travels to Tibet, China to investigate the impact of climate change. He discovers local people working to establish the new Four Great Rivers protected area, initiated in partnership by Future Generations. The ten minute news feature was broadcast on Canadian public television and is available on their website. See below for the Google Video version:

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