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Climate Change on Tibetan Plateau

A Tibetan man runs down a hillside in the town of Zaduo. Tibetans inside a "relocation town," created to house nomadic herders moved from the highland grasslands. The nomads have been blamed for contributing to the deterioration of the grasslands, so have been moved, sometimes forcibly, into newly built towns that can be found across the plateau.

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Contained in galleries: 3 Rivers - Asia's Threatened Headwaters [2012]

A Tibetan man runs down a hillside in the town of Zaduo. Tibetans inside a "relocation town," created to house nomadic herders moved from the highland grasslands. The nomads have been blamed for contributing to the deterioration of the grasslands, so have been moved, sometimes forcibly, into newly built towns that can be found across the plateau.