Although its record of reserve-based biodiversity conservation is striking, Beijing’s approach to the conservation of living natural resources outside reserves is less impressive. Pressures for economic development often eclipse complex ecological and cultural factors. This is especially true on the Tibetan plateau, where China’s political agenda collides with a complex and vulnerable ecological and cultural landscape. Read more
Corralling the nomads
China’s anti-pastoralist policies in Tibet are not only culturally insensitive but environmentally disastrous.