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VOLUME 14 NO. 4 - CERS EDUCATION ISSUE 2012
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Glacier |
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Get lost |
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Plans change, so be open to anything |
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My Exploration Journey |
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YYC Girls 的難忘回憶 |
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YYC Girls 的學習成果 |
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The Beauty of Simplicity |
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First Five days with CERS |
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Inspired by CERS |
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The Underlying Problems of Modernization - The Erosion of Culture |
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Culture and Community |
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When Dancing Together |
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Lawrenceville in Shangri-la |
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Artist Corner |
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Intern Bios |
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Interns in the Fields |
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VOLUME 14 NO. 3 - AUTUMN 2012
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Prison Break! |
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Expect the Unexpected - Prerequisite of exploration spirit |
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Exploring the Back of Sacred Khawakarpo |
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Rainforest IDYL |
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The Last Coracle - A last ditch effort in collecting |
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Joy of Photographing Cranes and Eagles |
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Expert Critique of Burmese Cat Project |
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Inle Lake Monsoon Reflections |
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More Myanmar Reflections |
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Trash to Treasure, once again! |
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CERS in the Field |
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News/CERS in the Media |
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VOLUME 14 NO. 2 - SUMMER 2012
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Swan Song of the Last Reindeer Herder |
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The Reindeer People of China |
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Lifestyles of Self-sufficiency |
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Polar Village at Head of the Heilongjiang River |
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CRAVING FOR CAVIAR, for better or for worse |
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A Toe in the Water |
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MY MOULMEIN MOMENT at the mouth of the Salween River |
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Salween Passage |
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CERS in the Field |
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VOLUME 14 NO. 1 - SPRING 2012
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Taiwan Early Head Hunters, the Tsou People |
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Wuzhishan : a biologist’s mad scramble up Hainan’s highest peak |
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Hainan Island’s Wu Zhi Shan Mountains |
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Visit to the Jiangchang Underground Palace, Hainan |
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My days in Hung Shui Village |
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“Smile, you’re on Candid Camera!” |
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Memories of An Old Pilot and gift of a Dunhuang painting |
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Longest Day at The Beach – with the Sea Turtles |
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CERS in the Field |
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VOLUME 13 NO. 4 - 25TH ANNIVERSARY
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25 Years Retrospective |
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25 Years of Surprises and Surprising Legacy |
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Return to the Arjinshan Calving Grounds |
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Angel of the Plateau finds new home |
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Explorers of the Arjinshan |
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Crisis Aversion at Antelope Watershed |
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My “Will” – Arjin Shan Nature Reserve |
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Filming in Arjin |
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The Road to Arjin |
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What the CERS education program has meant to me |
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My CERS Experience from student intern to staff |
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My time with CERS |
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Uncompensated Morality |
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Golden Monkeys & Lisu Village
Boundless Lake |
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From Junk to Jewel |
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VOLUME 13 NO. 3 - AUTUMN 2011
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To the Source of the Salween River, barely |
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With the CERS Team to the Source of the Salween |
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Surviving the Salween Source Expedition |
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Salween River’s Indignation |
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Salween – Surviving, the Source |
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What satellite pictures can’t tell you |
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Only 24km from Salween River Source |
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CERS in the Field |
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VOLUME 13 NO. 2 - SUMMER 2011
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Himalayan Smallest Kingdom |
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Kangchenjunga – On Top of The World’s Third Highest Peak |
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Abode of The Buddhas |
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Little Tibet of the Himalayas |
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A Museum for Ancient Leh |
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Reflecting on Myanmar |
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From Jet Age to Stone Age |
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Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkey Retrospective |
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Love and Death In The Service of The Czar |
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VOLUME 13 NO. 1 - SPRING 2011
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Photo Essay on Jiulong |
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Unveiling Secrets of the Musk Deer |
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Progress and Plans for Musk Deer Conservation |
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On the Mekong in Cambodia |
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Motorbike Syndrome in Tibet |
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A Gift from Hong Kong to China in 1949 |
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Lost Footstep No More? |
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Burmese Cat’s Perfect Home |
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CERS in the Field |
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VOLUME 12 NO. 3 - AUTUMN 2010
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The Last People’s Commune |
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Who’s the Winner |
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The Yin and Yang of Expeditions |
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Summer Expedition 2010 - A Romance that went sour |
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Plateau Blue |
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Wilderness Heartland of Tibet |
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Exploring the Irrawaddy |
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Hazel Ying Lee |
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CERS Reflection |
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CERS in the Field |
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News/CERS in the Media |
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VOLUME 12 NO. 2 - SUMMER 2010
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Into The Gobi Desert During Deep Winter |
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Pleading of the Wild Yak |
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Wild yaks and a brush with disaster |
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Tracking Wild Yak in the Snow |
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Craving for Crane and Crab |
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TWO ANCIENT CAPITALS – Thirty years before and after |
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A ‘village’ of strangers helps conserve Li artifacts |
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Cradle of China’s Communist Revolution |
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China’s auto industry, then and now |
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VOLUME 12 NO. 1 - SPRING 2010
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A Land Where Time Stood Still
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Tattoo Women of Myanmar's Chin State |
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When China Had Few Friends
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Emerging Suzhou's Disappearing Act
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Bearded Vulture of the Himalaya's
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Economic Boom - Another World Heritage Site Turned Tourist Mecca
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Quiet Border of Laos with Myanmar
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Flying into the Storm During 60th National Day
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Leave It or Fix It
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Inthar Heritage House
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VOLUME 11 NO. 3 - AUTUMN 2009
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Himalayan paradise and paradigm kingdom |
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With the Royal Grand Mother of Bhutan at an 8th Century Buddhist enclave |
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Caves not just for tourists |
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Unlikely tent-mate provides wake-up call on climate change |
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Resting place of the slaughter knife - Gom-Gonsar Monastery of Tibet |
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A Buddha in disguise |
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Forgotten corner of Tibet |
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Interns savour exotic excursions |
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Die-hard leeches of Hainan Island |
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Caught on the thin edge of a total solar eclipse |
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CERS in the Field |
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VOLUME 11 NO. 2 - SUMMER 2009
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Water Splashing for New Year 1371 |
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Secret and Sacred Cave of Yunnan |
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Women Explorers to China (1880-1930) |
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Capturing Cranes at Napahai |
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Two Taoist Mountains, Thirty Years Apart |
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Tea for Tibet |
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Easter in Tibet |
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Searching for Yaks Over Thin Ice |
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Hot Spring Pilgrimage in Taiwan |
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CERS in the Field |
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VOLUME 11 NO. 1 - SPRING 2009
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Zoological Kingdom of the Underworld |
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Backdoor into Burma's Irrawaddy River |
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Escapade in North Burma |
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Yaks Affect Economics and Ecology in Tibet |
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Arjin Mountain Experiences |
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German Pilot Pictured China 75 Years Ago |
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Looking on China from Above |
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Forty Nine Turning Sixty |
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Reflections of the Burmese Cat |
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News/CERS in the Media |
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VOLUME 10 NO. 3 - AUTUMN 2008
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Yugu, little known minority of the Qilian Mountains |
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The Burmese cats' long journey home |
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World Heritage - long overdue |
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Birds of many feathers |
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Face tattooes - a fading tradition |
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Eclipse of a matrilineal enclave |
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My Olympic torch relay |
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My moment at the Games |
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Discovery: a new Yellow River Source |
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Navigating the Yellow River's birthplace |
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Nature's pageantry en route to the source |
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Relishing history, ecology on a momentous expedition |
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An unforgettable journey to a monumental watershed |
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Bringing an excursion into focus |
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Bidding hello to the adventure of a lifetime |
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Lessons learned from a sortie to the source |
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My first roll of film in China (circa 1974) |
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Moon Chin, a pioneer aviator |
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Burmese kittens and mastiff dogs |
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Mouth of the Mekong |
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Crossroad in preservation & modernization |
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Film students take a walk on the wild side |
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Exploration bicycle vignette |
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News and CERS in the Media |
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VOLUME 9 NO. 3 - AUTUMN 2007
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Return to Hainan Island |
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'Raw' and 'Cooked' Li people of Hainan Island |
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Shenzhen thirty years ago |
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Faces of Islam in China |
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Fish for the elusive Burmese cat |
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Chinese pilots recall flights over the Hump |
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Final flight of a Hump pilot |
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News |
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VOLUME 9 NO. 2 - SUMMER 2007
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3 At the source of the Mekong |
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On the way to the Mekong source |
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First family at the Mekong source |
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To the source of the river Mekong |
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Film-maker at the source of the Mekong |
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An expedition adventure to the source of the Mekong |
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A naturalist at another source |
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Exploration at the Mekong source |
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VOLUME 9 NO. 1 - SPRING 2007
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A Satellite view of Zhongdian, Yunnan |
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Home of the Burmese cats |
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Recounting two fly-by-night operations |
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The road less travelled : Chasing yaks |
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Sagas along Guangxi's border with Vietnam |
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Bearing fruit from small seedlings |
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Most endangered tiger species |
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Return to Guilin |
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VOLUME 8 NO. 3 - 20TH ANNIVERSARY
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CERS marks 20 years of work on nature and culture |
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Minor exploration details |
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Jesuits trigger Tibetan kingdom's demise |
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Exploration's high and low points |
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Mountains of gold |
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Blessings of the 7th Dalai Lama |
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Tri-province mastiff search |
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Explorer enters twilight? Or just shifting gear? |
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Transborder cave at Signpost 124 |
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Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes |
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Four-wheeling through Laos |
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Zigong - a city with three treasures |
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CERS' extraordinary museum |
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Tourism knocks at nature reserve's doorstep |
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Mastiffs galore/Thoughts on the year of the mastiff |
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More on cranes |
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Last chance for the Hainan gibbons
Pilgrimage to Ji Ju Shan
Return to CNAC old route
Deng Tribe of the Indian/Burmese border
Most severe earthquake of the 20th century
Into Tibet, then and now
The otter fisherman's last stand
Last... but not least |
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VOLUME 7 NO. 3 - WINTER 2005
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New and longer Yangtze discovery
Yangtze, Yangtze
Measuring the Yangtze from space
A naturalist's journey to the source
Reflection enroute to the Yangtze source
Towards the Yangtze source
Return to the source
Plus...other accounts of this exceptional expedition
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Exploring the Black Rock Huge Cave
An observation of Tibetan architecture
Last of the Oroqen hunters
Fifty-three degrees North, minus thirty-one degrees C
Lost reindeer herder of Manchuria
A story of humans and nature
Grand Saint Bernard, people and dog savior of the Alps
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INLE LAKE - Jewel of the Burmese crown
Mishaps, murder on the high plateau
DULONG (Drung) - tiny tribe by the Burmese border
Into Tibet through a backdoor
Signpost Number 16
Old pilots reminisce
A litter too soon, a little too few
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Yretsanom Opnob
Hope on the horizon
Tibetan Mastiff controversy
Smiles under a different sky
Time capsule in Tibet
Finland's president
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Golden Monkeys' photo op
Lisu hunters' balancing act
Closer to Heaven
Hidden Valley of Tibet
Tracking Big Horn Sheep
Asiatic Beaver's last stand
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Biodiversity in our midst
Last gazelles of the Blue Sea
The Biritish invasion of Tibet
Travel ups & downs in Sichuan
Nature flourishes, culture fades
Monkey business
Bridge over the Mekong
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The changing face of exploration and the land
Protecting the Wild Yak
Monkey business in Yunnan
Shangri-la's many names
Lijiang, past and future
Ancient dog faces demise
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Pikas lost and found
Across northern Tibet
Lhasa: Twenty years
My Himalayan sunset
Kailash: Blessings and curses
Wildlife of the Wild West
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Life, death and rebirth of a World Heritage Site
Mountain fortresses of Tibet
Paradise lost
Black - necked cranes
Black devils of the Li River
But seriously
Twins, at CERS service
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VOLUME 4 NO. 3 - SPRING 2002
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Afghan border with China
Frontier ordeal
Tea time dilemma
Treachery with honour
Down to earth Buddha
Ateacher in bandit country
Mission on the roof |
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Kungfu Master of Tibet
Return to the Antelope watershed
A morning bio-diversity lesson
Tibetan journey
Toasted in Xinjiang
An excursion into Inner Asia's frontier
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CERS returns to northern Yunnan
Shadow of Joseph Rock's legacy
Conservation express
Hanging Coffins opened
Train saga to Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh rolls in his grave
Corner suite at Tibetan winery
Winter pilgrimage to mountain deities
World War II Hump pilot returns |
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Millennium musings
What the rocks have witnessed
Kiang survey raises questions
Pastoral retreat on the roof of the world
Auspicious home on the plateau
Helping people helps the Giant Panda, too
Teamwork opens up caving possibilities
A Tigress Reminisces
Ali Beg and the 40 thieves-a chapter in Kazak history |
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Grave situation of the Bo coffins
Grave looting horror
The wolf trap
Christian and Buddhist intrigues on the roof
Millennium twilight
Millennium outlook
Fast Track to HEAVEN-Mockery of the sacred mountain
Volcanic Valentine
An underground AFFAIR
Frontier without borders |
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A tale of two nunneries
On the road again - across Tibet
Yatung-a border town caught in the crossfire
View from the Pinnacle of The World
Into Nepal-without a permit
Pilgrims and traders
Gone fishin' on the roof of the world |
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General Jack Young - A 1920's naturalist
The camel messenger
Laos-through the back door
Bridging two frontier towns
The Harem master's dilemma
A royal mountain pilgrimage |
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Trailblazer on a lonely road
Lessons from the Lisu hunters
Death of a Tibetan Antelope protector
A great escape in Tibat
Protecting an endangered feathered friend
A flight into history
Grave concerns |
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A walk among the antelopes
Sacred birth, violent death
The gods will sleep well tonight
Return of the gods' portraits
Intrigues of exploration and conservation
Camels in the wild
Eulogy of a Moso woman warrior |
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A rejuvenating adventure
Unearthing a mythical fungus
Matsutake madness
Lunar New Year in Tibet
The Man Who Chases a Cause
Yak Encounters
A Brief History of CERS and the Arjin(Altun) Mountain Nature Reserve |
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VOLUME 1 NO. 4 - WINTER 1997
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Landslides vs Tibetan Gods
Geocoding the Taklamakan's Treasure Maps
Glimpsing a Nomad's Life
Closer to Heaven
Tibetan Antelope Massacre
In search of the evasive Blue Sheep
A Tigress Reminisces
Ali Beg and the 40 thieves-a chapter in history |
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Last tribute to a Moso matriach
A journey to the centre of Paradise
Dalai Lama dilemma
Tribal wars rage on holy mountains
World Cultural Heritage Symposium
How to buy a camel
A desert sandstorm welcome |
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VOLUME 1 NO. 2 - SPRING 1997
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Heavenly cranes make a comeback
Whacking the Gods
Executives on expedition
A kid's adventure
Plateau highs
Silk Road encounters
CERS speleologists learn the ropes
On the road with Wong How Man
Birding at Longbaotan Marsh |
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VOLUME 1 NO. 1 - AUTUMN 1996
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Big yak attack
Khartan Valley wildlife sightings
Bathing the gods at Baiya Monastery
Smothered by desert sands
The mystery of the hanging coffins
The urgent call of an auspicious bird
Cultural conservation at Luguhu |
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