Quote from The International Ecotourism Society. Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people. Sustainable tourism is: Tourism that meets the needs of present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing opportunities for the future. Sustainable development implies meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ....
An environmental awakening in Western China has led to several ambitious initiatives to restore the ecology in the mountain chains of three provinces. The initial results have been stunning. Hardly a day goes by, it seems, without another story of environmental woes coming out of China. Rapid and poorly controlled development has seen rivers, soil and air polluted. Less often heard are the good news stories, but increasingly, the Chinese government is coming to realise the importance of environm...
On January 13th of Lunar Calendar, which is during the Tibetan New Year, a great Buddha Unfolding Festival takes places at Langmu Monastery. Langmu Monastery, at an altitude of 3,600 m, is located on the boder between Ruoergai County of Sichuan Province and Luqu County of Gansu Province. Langmu in Tibetan means fairy layd and it is said that there is a rock looking like very a beautiful girl in a cave on the mountains nearby. The local Tibetan people regard it as the transformation of a fairy la...
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake (simplified Chinese: 四川大地震; pinyin: Si Chuan Da Di Zhen), or Great Sichuan Earthquake, which measured at 8.0 Ms and 8.3 Mw according to China Seismological Bureau (CSB), and 7.9 Mw according to USGS, occurred at 14:28:01.42 CST (06:28:01.42 UTC) on 12 May 2008 in Sichuan province of China. It was also known as the Wenchuan earthquake (simplified Chinese: 汶川大地震; pinyin: Wen Chuan Da Di Zhen), after the earthquakes epicenter in Wenchuan County, Sichuan provinc...
