[December 2009] Tibet Third Pole is a campaign that is working to raise awareness of the vital importance of Tibet within the issue of climate change, and advocating Tibetan stewardship of Tibet’s natural resources. Tibet is called the earth's Third Pole by scientists because only the North and South poles hold more glacially stored freshwater. As such it is the repository of vital water resources and currently supplies over one billion of the world’s population through six huge rivers that have their sources on the plateau to then flow through Tibet, China, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burma, Thailand and Laos.
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