Randy W Posted April 22, 2017 Report Share Posted April 22, 2017 in the SCMP China plans world’s biggest national park on Tibetan plateau Survey to help draw boundary of 2.5 million sq km park scheduled for this summer http://cdn1.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/980x551/public/images/methode/2017/04/22/575f27dc-23d9-11e7-a553-18fc4dcb5811_1280x720_114807.JPG?itok=uLu9EVT8 Dubbed the Third Pole National Park because the plateau and mountains, including the Himalayas, have a natural environment that in many ways resembles polar regions, it would be the world’s biggest national park. The plateau covers an area of more than 2.5 million sq km, mainly in Tibet and Qinghai, dwarfing the biggest national park at present, Greenland’s 972,000 sq km Northeast Greenland National Park. . . . He said it took the United States government decades to figure out how to manage Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, which was established in 1872. The Third Pole would be more than 250 times larger, with a much more sophisticated natural landscape. . . . But the government is serious, according to some researchers, with the impetus for the Third Pole National Park coming from the very top. At a meeting with leading scientists studying Tibet in Beijing late last month, CAS vice-president Liu Weiping passed on an instruction which he said came directly from President Xi Jinping, saying they must contribute to the “guarding and keeping of the last piece of pure land”. Liu said the ruling Communist Party, led by Xi, had an “urge” to protect the Tibetan plateau and regarded it as an environmental and ecological imperative. 1 Link to comment
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