About Us — Our Objectives

  1. It will primarily be a Tibetan people's initiative for environmental awareness movement in the Himalayan mountain region. Hence, the main objective of the organization is to start a Tibetan Environmental Awareness Movement.
  2. The organization shall engage in educational activities directed at four groups of people — monks and nuns, students, farmers and people engaging in environmentally harmful activities. The main aims for these groups are:
    1. Facilitating monks and nuns to realise their ecological consciousness and training them to become nature stewards for their Buddhist communities
    2. To encourage schools to adopt sustainable nature-oriented curriculum in promoting wholesome surrounding in raising ecologically aware pupils
    3. To educate farmers how chemical agriculture is destroying health, home and local ecosystems; to provide training in value-adding strategies for their organic produce; and by establishing a community based organic seed-banks and market.
    4. To curtail local people’s participation in trade of endangered animal products through active awareness and educational programs on the non-monitory values of these threatened animal species and the benefits of their protection
  3. TEAM shall engage in the following activities to strengthen its environmental education resources: publication of periodicals; participating and organizing conferences and meetings; translation of classic environmental resources into Tibetan and other local languages.
  4. TEAM shall also strive to educate and pressurize public authorities and states to adopt policies that are just and sustainable for everyone sharing the environment.

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