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PROGRAM FOCUS:  Future Generations China is a Beijing-based organization with the goal of promoting sustainable livelihoods for rural China. Future Generations works in partnership with government, environmental agencies, and communities to foster and facilitate the emergence of a new pattern of nature conservation that protects nature and improves the lives of local people. Specifically, Future Generations provides both professional and local-level training and collaborates on the design and development of large-scale community-based conservation initiatives.

THE GREEN LONG MARCH: Future Generations China initiated the Green Long March in 2007 with the purpose of providing youth with practical ways to participate in creating a sustainable future for China. In 2007, the Green Long March engaged students from 43 Chinese universities on an environmental march spanning 22 provinces across China. Youth directly engaged an estimated 250,000 people through awareness campaigns, public discussions, and the first public survey on what communities are doing to protect the environment. In 2008, the Green Long March continues with nation-wide student marches and an expanded set of activities that will lead to long-term and tangible impacts within communities across China.

TIBET CONSERVATION: To implement a new pattern of community-based nature conservation on a large-scale, Tibet needs professional and local-level management capacity. With 40 percent of the land area now under the management of 18 different nature preserves, there are not enough trained people at the regional or local levels to meet the management needs. What makes Tibet ’s situation unique is that local people live within these nature preserves, and their participation in the management of the preserves is essential.

To support these conservation training and capacity needs, Future Generations works as a partner to:

• build on Tibet's success in community-based conservation
• strengthen and extend the Pendeba Program, a community-based management approach that trains local people in nature conservation, primary health, income generation and other skills

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:  Future Generations has played a significant role in helping to:

• initiate the Green Long March
  
• design, establish and promote the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (QNNP);
• design and provide local-level training for the Pendeba Program in the QNNP, Four Rivers Preserve and Chang Tang Preserve ;
• initiate and support the Four Great Rivers Ecological Environmental Protection Plan.
• encourage the TAR Forestry Bureau to engage in a major effort in stopping the illegal hunting of rare wildlife.
• train personnel, from local villagers to managerial staff in order to broaden knowledge of conservation and community development in Tibet .  This includes the sponsorship of international study tours: over one hundred staff have come to the U. S. for study-tours and more than two dozen to Bangladesh , Nepal , India and Taiwan .

HISTORY OF PARTNERSHIP: Future Generations has been a leading partner in Tibet's community-based conservation program since 1992. But our staff's experience in Tibet goes back as far as 1983. Future Generations staff have been organizing and leading projects in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China since 1983 and were among the first outsiders to work in modern Tibet. In 1983, a key staff was the UNICEF Representative in China and the individual who first opened UN work in Tibet. In 1984, the former Vice President of China Programs opened one of the first cultural exchanges between the United States and Tibet. In 1985, the President opened the first collaboration in Tibet by bringing together the NGO sector and the government to establish the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (QNNP).

PARTNERS: Beijing Forestry University, Tibet Department of Science and Technology, Tibet Department of Forestry, Plateau Perspectives, Qomolangma National Nature Preserve Mangement Bureau.

MORE INFORMATION: Visit www.futuregenerations.org.cn