WORLD NEWS | China’s designation of Tibet’s landscape as a ‘national park’ does not change conditions on the ground: report

Lhasa [Tibet], June 8 (ANI): For China, the elaborate “system” of national parks, especially in Tibet, is not an end in itself. Officially designating a landscape as a national park in Tibet will not necessarily change local conditions, at least in the short term, according to a report from Tibet Rights Collective.

What is changing really quickly is the legal transfer of power from local and provincial governments to the national party-state government in Beijing, writes Gabriel Lafitte, who for years has been working with Tibetans in exile in a report for the Tibetan Rights Collective. Tibetans, Tibetans in exile and Tibetans live together.

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This nationalization was accompanied by metropolitan investment, staffing, and the recruitment of locals who were hired to patrol park rangers to enforce state policy.

People should learn to see Tibet through Chinese eyes before riding motorcycles to join the rangers. In China today, everything is considered a security threat. Even the most remote areas inhabited by Tibet’s Zhuoba nomads must be protected. Allowing people to roam with their animals beyond official surveillance is an unspoken security risk.

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The most remote outlying border grasslands must be orderly and clearly identifiable in the eyes of security states, the report said. This is not only because unsupervised land users may destroy the commons, but also because safety is a necessary prerequisite for development.

In these respects, development with Chinese characteristics means urbanization, sedentization, mass housing in well-off villages that showcase “moderate prosperity”, concentration of education and healthcare to encourage homeless to settle where services such as schools and hospitals are available, Tibetan rights collectives reports.

In early May, Chinese President Xi Jinping instructed the entire party to “deeply understand the complex and severe situation facing national security, correctly grasp major national security issues, accelerate the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, maintain a new development pattern and a new security pattern, and strive to create national security work. New situation. The National Security Committee of the Central Committee insists on carrying forward the spirit of struggle, resolutely safeguards national sovereignty, security and development interests, and comprehensively strengthens national security.” Tibet Rights Collective reported.

At the beginning of this century, development, security and stability were defined as dual goals, especially in central Tibet, where development is the long-term solution to all problems in Tibet. In the past, however, the short-term need to secure Tibet came first, sparking tension between the two goals, reports the Tibet Rights Collective. Tensions have not been resolved as there is nothing on the entire Qinghai-Tibet plateau that is not a security threat.

All of this was incorporated into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Restoration Law in April to strengthen state control, Tibet Rights Collective reported. This law is now implemented in Tibetan counties in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and even the Altun Mountains in southern Xinjiang. Tibet Rights Collective reported that ecological “restoration” is the goal of China’s struggle to create an “ecological civilization” and is a legally named concept.

All of these developments point to the active involvement of humans on the ground in improving grasslands. The new Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Restoration Law requires nomads to move from their pastures, the report said.

All official policies, including watershed protection, biomass growth of grasses, carbon capture, poverty alleviation, job security for park rangers, biodiversity conservation, and national park redline zoning, need to be based on news coverage.

The few Tibetans employed as park rangers patrol outside 22 consecutive days a month. One of their duties is to enforce the removal of nomads, livestock and grazing pressure, even if it is against their own families. The national park “system” should not be considered in isolation, nor should it be seen as a self-evident public good, now that wildlife is protected.

The decision even calls for the drokpa to remove the fencing of the land they were allotted 30 years ago to now remove the fence and allow the wildlife to relocate. Thanks to a law covering the entire plateau in China’s six provinces, central leaders override provincial governments with the authority to protect “hotspots” of plateau biodiversity.

Almost all national parks and nature reserves that are about to be upgraded to national parks are in northern Tibet. However, the greatest biodiversity of flora and fauna is in Kham, where only a small area is officially protected, according to the Tibet Rights Collective report.

The new Panda National Park connects the scattered panda bamboo forests on the eastern edge of Kham, finally allowing panda spaces to connect. However, the steep valleys and plateau pastures in Kham, which are rich in traditional medicinal materials of Suowa Ripa and endangered animals such as monkeys, red pandas, and takins, are not protected. Instead, Kham is being mined, which includes copper extraction from Yulong, between Jomda and Derge, and lithium extraction from Lhagang.

The development of large dams is moving upstream into Kham to power mineral processing in the mines and especially to export electricity to China’s eastern seaboard. Gabriel Lafitte said in the report that it was a development with Chinese characteristics that could intensify as Beijing worried about global security risks and fears of losing copper mines and mining from Kham concerns will increase.

According to news reports, there were no good results for the national park. Both positive and negative impacts should be considered, including widespread disempowerment, demobilization, displacement and pastoral depopulation. As a result, Tibet lost its food security and became more reliant on central party-state transfer payments. (Arnie)

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