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Rangeland Voices

Tibetan nomads about their lives and future
Excerpt from a participatory video film made by herders of Muqu Village in the Yangtze River headwaters, in collaboration with the local NGO Upper Yangtze Organization and with Plateau Perspectives, facilitated by Insight Share
Yak herders in Western China
On the alpine meadow of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in western China, pastoralists traditionally raise yaks as their main source of livelihood. Credit: Shan Shui Conservation Centre.

Featured Videos & Photo Stories

"Toward the North" (北山) is an ethnographic documentary following a nomadic pastoralist family in Ar Horqin Banner, Inner Mongolia, China, as they migrate from their winter pasture toward their summer grazing grounds during one of the driest years the region had experienced in more than a decade.

Plateau Perspectives: 25 Years in High Asia Foggin, JM, and Torrance-Foggin, ME. (2025) Plateau Perspectives: Twenty-five Years in High Asia. Ardgay, Scotland: Plateau Perspectives.

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