Contact is taking a holiday!

Contact is taking a break after 25 years of bringing you news of Tibet and Tibetan issues. We are celebrating our 25 years by bringing you the story of Contact and the people who have made it happen, and our archive is still there for you to access at any time, and below you can read the story of Contact, how it came into being and the wonderful reflections of the people who have made it happen over the years.

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Planting Trees

April 26, 2016;

Tibetan monks from Dzogchen monastery in Kardze in Sichuan’s Dege county are planting more than 15,000 trees on the hillsides around their monastery. They are attempting to address the environmental damage caused by decades of indiscriminate Chinese logging which has left the once heavily-forested area stripped bare and vulnerable to soil erosion and floods.

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