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| The logo of the county seat, written in Chinese, not in Tibetan (Today’s Matö County belongs to Qinghai Province, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture) |
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on August 17, 2011 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on August 28, 2011.
In this blogpost, Woeser writes about the once prosperous county of Matö (Tib: རྨ་སྟོད། Ch: 玛多, Maduo) in eastern Tibet, located in today's Qinghai Province. Woeser questions the official rationale given for the impoverishment of Matö county and chooses to focus on environmental degradation brought on by mining, dam building and gold panning and the impact on the nomads.
For High Peaks Pure Earth readers interested in the full China Dialogue article "Tibet's Disappearing Grasslands" mentioned by Woeser, follow this link: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3828-Tibet-s-disappearing-grasslands
Read a French translation of this post here: http://woeser.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/la-province-amdo-sombrant-dans-la-pauvrete/
