Talk Series on Tibet’s Environment Kicks Off in Bangalore[Thursday, 26 August 2010, 2:59 p.m.]

Tibetan Students attend talk at the Institute of Small Trade Learning, Nelamangla, in Bangalore

Bangalore:
A talk series to educate Tibetan students about Tibet’s crucial
environmental issues has begun on Tuesday (24 August) in Bangalore. Two
environmental researchers from the Environment and Development Desk
(EDD) of the Department of Information and International Relations are
conducting the talks. Jigme Norbu and Bhartso Dhondup Dolma of
DIIR gave an interactive talk on Tibet’s Environment and development
issues at the Institute for Small Trade Learning at Nelamangla, a
training unit of the Central Tibetan Relief Committee, Dharamsala, on
24 August. They spoke on climate change and water issues,
grassland degradations, nomads and resource extractions inside Tibet.
The sixty participants, including both staff and students, took active
participation in the two-hour interactive talk. “The questions raised
during this talk session was interesting and thought provoking. Both of
our staff were really moved by their interest and concerns,” Mr Tenzin
Norbu, Executive Head of EDD, told TibetNet.On 25
August, Ms Bhartso Dhondup Dolma gave an awareness talk on the
development activities inside Tibet and climate change impacts on the
Tibetan plateau and downstream countries. The talk was held during a
photo exhibition on 50 years in exile jointly organised by the Tibet
Museum and Indo Tibetan Friendship Society, Bangalore.After the
talk, a documentary film “Meltdown in Tibet” was shown. The chief guest
at the photo exhibition was Sri Roshan Baig, a Member of Legislative
Assembly. Both the researchers are now on their way to three
Tibetan schools in Dhoeguling, Mundgod to hold similar sessions from 27
to 28 August.