Rajesh Thadani on the Himalaya and the Yale Himalaya Initiative
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In February 2013, Dr Rajesh Thadani, Visiting Fellow of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Executive Director of the Center for Ecology Development and Research (CEDAR), visited Yale and discussed a number of key issues affecting the Himalayan range with with Dr Mark Turin, Program Director of the Yale Himalaya Initiative. Some of the photos used in this video are used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
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