Tibetan environment activist highlights China’s large-scale timber extraction

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Tenzin Nyidon 

DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 9: Tibetan environment activist Padma Wangyal delivered an address at the “Rivers of the Sky: Glaciers of the Sky” exhibition, which is currently on display at the Central Tibetan Administration’s Tibet Museum. The exhibition organised by Tibet Museum and researchers from the Tibet Policy Institute (TPI), highlights Tibet’s major rivers and exposes China’s exploitation of these vital resources as political tools.

Padma Wangyal, who has spent decades advocating for environmental preservation in both Tibet and Nepal, shared insights from his visits to Tibet between 1987 and 2008. He emphasized the extensive logging activities along Tibet’s border with China, particularly...

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