Snowland Great Rivers

Who we are

Sanjiangyuan Environment Protection Association(SEPA) is a nonprofit and nonofficial environment protection association, which is foundered on Nov. 2001, and authorized by MIZHENG BUREAU, Yushu Zangzu municipality.

The main responsibilities of SEPA are: organizing a committee comprised by Sanjiangyuan environment protection experts; educating, training and propagandizing environment protection; building up Sanjiangyuan environment; building up Sanjiangyuan environment culture and ethic; establishing a sustained way for the Sanjiangyuan environment development. SEPA is welcome by the mass in Sanjiangyuan, it inherits the Sanjiangyuan's excellent custom on the environment protection, and collects most environment protection supporters here. Mr. Gerguodong Guzhaduojie and Mr. Rukai Gamasangzhu, both of the founder-members, donated their big savings and foundered SEPA in order to protect Sanjiangyuan environment. And now, Sanjiangyuan environment protection and development Ltd. is coming up, which will be in favor of the Sanjiangyuan environment.

Brief introduction on the association

Sanjiangyuan Environment Protection Association(SEPA): SEPA is a nonprofit and nonofficial environment protection association, which is foundered on Nov. 2001, and authorized by MIZHENG BUREAU, Yushu Zangzu municipality.
The main responsibilities of SEPA are:

• organizing a committee comprised by Sanjiangyuan environment protection experts;
• educating, training and propagandizing environment protection;
• building up Sanjiangyuan environment;
• building up Sanjiangyuan environment culture and ethic;
• establishing a sustained way for the Sanjiangyuan environment development.

SEPA is welcome by the mass in Sanjiangyuan, it inherits the Sanjiangyuan's excellent custom on the environment protection, and collects most environment protection supporters here. Mr. Gerguodong Guzhaduojie and Mr. Rukai Gamasangzhu, both of the founder-members, donated their big savings and foundered SEPA in order to protect Sanjiangyuan environment. And now, Sanjiangyuan environment protection and development Ltd. is coming up, which will be in favor of the Sanjiangyuan environment.

Sanjiangyuan environment Some cases on the environment protection

• the first man to plant the man-made forest.
• Jiesang Suonandajie, "the environment guardian"
• "Wild Yak Brigade" Chief, Jika Zhabaduojie
• Wild Yak Brigade
• Association for the promotion of the Economic Development and Environmental protection of the Yangtze River Headwaters

Tel: 0976-8829088 0971-6116843
Fax: 0976-8829099 0971-6116842
Website: www.snowland-great-rivers.org
E-mail: zhaxiduojie@snowland-great-rivers.org
Corresponding to:Haxizhaxiduojie
Mobile: 13897161833
E-mail: uyohata@sina.com

What we do

"The Snow Zone and the Great River" Wild Yak Environmental Education Mobile Vehicle Project

This project will be implemented along the three-river valleys in the hinterland of the Qinghai and Tibetan Plateau. These regions are the habitat of many unique species of herbivores.

College students supporting the ecological protection of the "Qinghai-Tibetan" Plateau

The college students will live with the local herdsmen together, and try to understand what's happening there. Then they will try to work out some feasible ways to tackle those problems.

Creating local villages of whose sources that can be made use of continuously to protect the organism diversities

Our goal is: Creating local leading model villages of whose particular cultural and environmental sources that can be made use of continuously, and protect the diversities of the organism in the "Qinghai-Tibetan" Plateau.

The comprehensive base construction of scientific research and training in Sanjiangyuan ecological environmental protection

The base will be built in Jiegu town,Yushu autonomous state, Qinghai province. It'll consist of statistic information center, the propaganda and education center, the scientific research monitoring center and construction of information.

Tenet and Tasks of Organization

Main Targets:

Setting-up of the Advisory Committee of Experts for the environmental Protection in the Springhead Areas of The Three Rivers (the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River).

To organize a cross- disciplinarily experts team to supervise all the tasks and navigate with bateaux mouches.

To promote environmental education for the youth; to raise public awareness of environmental challenges.

Aiming to raise public awareness of environmental protection in the SATTR, to promote environmental education, especially with an expectation to set up several Green Schools in future.

Setting-up of the ecological culture and the ecological ethics in the SATTR; to collect ideas of the traditional ecological ethics of Tibet nation.

Since ancient times, Tibetans have been detecting and fostering a green culture in harmony with its preferable natural environment, but the way out of the present ecological plight is to develop and establish a totally neoteric ecological ethics system. Thus we should keep collecting Tibetan traditional ecological ethics and educate Tibetan youths in inheriting and developing ideas of environmental protection, and raise the public awareness through medias.

The ecological protection and setting-up of the mode of sustainable development in the SATTR;

To make contributions to environmental protection tasks, we should do it in our daily life and ensure that scientific and effective protection measures be taken in the SATTR and so we can keep the dignity in living this beautiful natural land.

Protect our Great rivers

Being the most concentrated area of ecological diversification, The Three-River's Source Area is named the resource of nature idioplasmic life-form in high and cold circumstance. Also this area has unique biological system and plant resource. Over 100 species animals, such as Tibetan wild donkey, antelope, snow leopard, black neck crane, are national protected animals. Besides forest with the highest elevation are also located in The Three-River's Source Area , where are dotted with coldtype shrub, lawn, grassland, swamps and lakes.

Concept of the area

The Three-River's Source Area, is located in the centre of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau which in the south of Qinghai province and in the west of China. Three major rivers have their source in this area: the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Mekong River. This area's geographical location is between 31o39' to 36o12' on north latitude and between 89o45' to 102o23' on east longitude, and the administrative district include Mt. Tanggula township, Golmud city and 16 counties of 4 Tibetan autonomous prefecture like Yushu, Guoluo, hainan and huangnan. The Three-River's Source Area hast a total land are of 302,500 square kilometer, which 43% of that of Qinghai province, and 97% of the districtal area of the 16 counties and 1 township. Its population has totaled 556 million now, among which 90% is Tibetan people and the rest is Han, Hui, Salar, and Mongolia people.

Ecological characteristic

Being the most concentrated area of ecological diversification, The Three-River's Source Area is named the resource of nature idioplasmic life-form in high and cold circumstance. Also this area has unique biological system and plant resourse. Over 100 species animals, such as Tibetan wild donkey, antelope, snow leopard, black neck crane, are national protected animals. Besides forest with the highest elevation are also located in The Three-River's Source Area , where are dotted with coldtype shrub, lawn, grassland, swamps and lakes.

Geography of the area

The Three-River's Source Area, being universally dotted by lakes, rivers, marshes, snow-topped mountains and glaciers, enjoys the fame of "Source of Rivers" and "Watertower of Asia " because of its most variations of wetlands with the vastest expansion of land on the highest altitude in the world. By the proportion of the drainage area, the Yellow River source area covers 167 million square kilometer, accounting for 46% in total area, 44% for the Yangtze River source area covering 159million square kilometer and 10% for the Mekong River of 37 million square kilometer. The area also provides the total water volume for the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Mekong River with 25%, 49% and 15% respectively.

The Three-River's Source Area, is the centre and mainbody of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, 3335 to 6564metres above the sea level. The area mainly featured with mountainous region, zigzag mountain range and complex terrain. Local climate in the typical highland continental climate of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau climate system, is characterized by the successiveness of the cold season and hot season, the distinction between the dry and humid season, Small difference in annual temperature, great changes of daily humidity, long time of sunshine, strong radiation and no-variation of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Environment protection

In history, the area was called "pure land" in sense of ecology and lives because of its beautiful natural environment, numerous lakes, a great number of wild animals and plant species. Nevertheless, the current situation has been changed. Over the past dozens of years, the whole ecological environment on Qinghai Plateau has been deteriorating obviously due to natural and human reasons. With warming of the global climate, The Three-River's Source Area, the center of the Plateaus is undergoing the melting of glacier and snow mountain year by year. Rivers lakes and damp lands are shrinking in areas and even dry up. The issues of grassland degeneration and barren grassland become more and more serious; large areas of grassland and nearly half of the forest have been seriously destroyed because of uncontrolled cutting for a long time. Pests and rats rampage, precious wild animas are killed, and unauthorized mining of gold and collecting of Chinese caterpillar fungus are seen everywhere. Over 20 percent of the species are threatened, which are much higher the world average level of 10 to 15 percent. Animals in some regions have to emigrate because of the bad environmental situation.

So the well-protected ecological environment of The Three-River's Source Area is significant not only for the protection of the water resource and ecological system and biodiversity in our country, but also for the society progress, economic development and improvement of life standard, nationality prosperity of Qinghai-Tibetan plateau.

News Center

Returning from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Tang Miao ,China Business Herald News Weekly

Ecological Building Project of Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve launched
Cheng Wei & Zhang Yan, Qinghai Daily, May 18, 2001

Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve established
Liang Juan, Xinhua Net, Aug 19

Environment of Sanjiangyuan Area is terrible now
Liang Juan, Xinhua Net, Aug 19

Environment of "China Water Tower" is terrible now
Xinhua Net, Shanxi Channel, Apr 16,2002

Nature Reserve of China
Zhao Cheng, Xinhua News Agency

Sandstorm threaten environment
Wu Xian, Bai Zhijun, Zhang Weimin, Xinhua, Beijing, News Agency, Mar 3

Grassland degradation, the Lakes went dry & the Rivers run dry, Environment of Sanjiangyuan is serious
Zhao Yongxin, People Daily, Nov 10

Capital from East China flows into Qinghai Province
People Daily, Nov 8, 2001

To Wetland in Plateau: We are so regret for you
Zhang Kejia, China Youth, Sep 4, 2002

Along Qinghai-Tibet Railway-Specialist of Environmental Protection talk about issues of environmental protection
Li Jincheng, Li Yaping, Su Min, Economy Daily, May 16 2001

Where are the sources of Lancang River, Yangtze River and Yellow River?
Ye Yan, China Youth

Beautiful "River Sources" in Qinghai
Zhang Xin, Economy Daily, June 13, 2001

Qinghai Government made the thought of ecology improving in next five years
Yu Weiliang, Ma Yingshan, Xining, People Daily

Ming of Gold is forbidden in Qinghai Province for Environmental Protection
Liang Juan, Xining, Xinhua News Agency, Feb 7

"When will all herds gone? ", Anxious for environment's present situation and the future's of Yangtze River's Source Area
Liu Ying, Science & Technology Daily, Nov 19, 2001

You Can Help

If you come from fund

The donations and contributions to the Entironmental Protection Association of the Springhead Areas of the Three Rivers£¨the Yangtse River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River£İin the form of supplying capital, services, facilities, books and ect. will be deeply appreciated, and will be responded in certain manners in terms of the sums and forms of the donations.

All the members in this association are volunteers. Some allowance will be provided to some volunteers for some certain services except the members signed by the the board of derectors of the association to be in charge of the longterm job of organization and entrustment. All the donations and contributions will be in support of the environmental protection in the SATR(the Springhead Areas of the Three Rivers). The account affairs will be reported to members and donators regularly.

The donations received will be used in the entironmental protection, as well as establishing the ecological ethics and the mode of sustainable development of the STR areas.

If you would like to donate now, please contact
Haxi.Zhaxiduojie
tel: 86-71-6116843
mobile: 13897161833
fax: 86-71-6116842

Your contribution to the entironmental protection of the STR areas is deeply appreciated.

If You Come From University

Attention has been paid to the ecological environment in the SATTR during recent years, but most was from outsiders' points of view. The local people's participation is desperate in need. Nevertheless Chinese college students has been showing great interest in participating environmental protection tasks when the country is paying its price for environmental degradation along with urging economic developments. And this project will finally bring the students to Tibetan tableland so that they can experience present ecological status of Tibetan tableland and thus evoke the voices of local habitants.

Under this project, the students will be living and working together with local farmers and herds, exploring thoughts and needs of local Tibetans from their firsthand experiences. The youths and the Tibetans will began to work together to find solutions to environmental problems.

If you want to enjoy a life as a Tibetan Gaucho for some time, experience the ecological environment there first-handly, and most importantly put your part into the environmental protection in the SATTR, come to Tibetan tableland, and be prepared to the hardship you will experience.

Please log on www.green-web.org, and maybe you could win the competition to go to Tibetan tableland next year!

References:

• Projects for College Students to Back Up the Grassland Ecological Protection of Tibetan Tableland
• The subject of 2002 Activity of Capital Students to Back Up the Grassland Ecological Protection of Tibetan Tableland(Chinese)
• The Advisory Letter to the 2003 Activity by 2002 Activity of Capital Students to Back Up the Grassland Ecological Protection of Tibetan Tableland(Chinese)

Contact:
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Office Tel / FAX: 86-10-82029059
Address: B1, Bld#1, No 10 yuan, Beisanhuan Zhong Road, Beijing, China (zip code: 100011)

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地址：青海省玉树州结古镇新建路288号
州藏医大专学校院内
邮政编码：815000
电话:0976-8829066 0971-6116843
传真:0976-8829099 0971-6116842
E-mail：office@snowland-great-rivers.org

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草原部落
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志愿者专辑

※　三江源生态环境保护协会
地址：青海省玉树州结古镇新建路288号
州藏医大专学校院内
邮政编码：815000
电话:0976-8829066 0971-6116843
传真:0976-8829099 0971-6116842
E-mail：office@snowland-great-rivers.org