Rhodiola sp.- Solo marpo - Roseroot, a highly sought after high altitude medicinal. It helps against altitude sickness and is turned into a tasty drink sold all over TAR. A Litang lady at the Horse Festival in 2007 The black stupa in Samye, Tibet's oldest Buddhist monastery. Two mastiff puppies. Many Tibetans have started breeding mastiffs for export to lowland China. Sometimes absurd high prices in the ten thousands of US$ are paid for pure breeds. A clear case of a bubble economy, but some make a fortune. Top of a Chorten with the sacred cloud-enshrouded Kawakarpo Mountain in the back. Background: Mani stone in Kham	A collage of yartsa gunbu (Cordyceps sinensis) and a Stupa. Tibet's Natural Treasures Daniel Winkler www.MushRoaming.com Tibet’s beautiful people, incredible temples and stunning landscapes provide the backdrop for Daniel’s extremely entertaining and also educational narrative.	Blue Sheep (Pseudois nayaur) Eurasian Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus) having cleaned off a young yak. Backside of a foot print left by Nyala Pema Duddul who realized "Ja lu" rainbow body in Nyarong in flagstone. Yaks are often referred to in Tibetan as "Norbu", which originally means "jewel", thus expressing the appreciation for the contribution of the yak to the welfare of Tibetan communities.
	The great diversity of the Plateau and the ways Tibetan’s have developed to live off of their abundant and often exotic natural treasures will be central to this presentation. An abundance of wildlife, medicinal plants and mushrooms will be shown in their natural and cultural environment. Furthermore, the presentation will also look in natural resource-based industries as forestry, mining and hydroelectricity. Daniel will show a selection of his best photos from all over the Tibetan Plateau taken over the course of twenty years working in Tibet. Daniel Winkler is trained as a geographer and ecologist and works as free-lance researcher and NGO consultant on environmental issues of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. He has published on forest ecology, forestry, traditional and contemporary land-use, conservation, medicinal plants and recently mostly on fungi. Daniel maintains a large webpage [see www.danielwinkler.com]. He is also organizing and leading eco-tourism tours to Tibet [www.mushroaming.com].
	A rider in a field of a Tibetan Forget-me-not (Eritrichium or Myosotis sp.), which thrive around herders' camp sites where the ground was generously fertilized by yaks the year before. A "washing machine" the size of an apartment building stranded in 4200 m / 15'000 ft in Lithang County mining for alluvial gold in sediments.