Tibet

The Tibetan Plateau, or 'third pole', is the forgotten part of the climate crisis conversation.

When Michael Buckley took a white water rafting trip in Tibet in 2005, he had no idea of the adventure he was embarking on - a ten-year investigation of China ruthless exploitation of Tibet's mineral and hydroelectric resources, and its systematic attack on indigenous Tibetans, their culture and their survival on the land.

China's least talked about crime against Tibet is the damage to the Tibetan plateau: dams, deforestation, mining, poaching and the dumping of nuclear waste. And it is impacting on all of us

Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at the environmental situation in Tibet.

Although the Dalai Lama says he is 80 per cent monk and 20 per cent politician, the focus of this documentary is largely political.

Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with little regard for the fragile ecology of the Tibetan plateau.