Are there any good PrepHole or hiking themed vloggers that operate primarily in China, bonus points if they focus on more remote locations. I know they don't have much of a true PrepHole culture but they do obviously have tons of national parks and gorgeous natural places that most of us have probably never heard of.
I'd prefer content in english and on youtube but I'll take anything as long as it's decently produced.
In the 1950s, after the Bolsheviks helped create the People's Republic of China, the Chinese implemented some of the most draconian and devastating "environmental" policies in recorded history.
Massive Deforestation on a scale that even outstripped the USA's western expansion.
The extermination of almost all birds and predators to insulate monoculture farms.
...and on top of that massive industrialization and urbanization obliterated man natural habitats and biomes.
China is an environmental catastrophe and the Communist government isn't going to allow anyone (especially eco-hippies) to highlight that to westerners.
The ADV China guys do go to wild life reserves and talk about the genocide of birds and the destruction of the forests but they make it pretty clear chinese don't give a frick about nature.
they still have some of the best scenery in the world though
And also still have great biodiversity, some of the coolest animals live in China. Pandas, red pandas, leopards, snow leopards, tigers, elephants, lots of monkeys etc. And they've righted the shift on their policies, most or all of these animals are increasing in population in China, they reintroduced rhinos recently also. Elephants and Rhinos and many other species are in danger around the world because of Chinese micropenises but the ones actually in China are well protected now
*righted the ship
...something seems missing from the picture from china...
Tibet is not China
>Have great biodiversity
no, they don't, not at all--in fact all the ones you listed are highly endangered.
Also--that picture is of an ecological disaster. What you're looking at is the desertification and run away erosion that happens after deforestation. That is an ecological disaster--it's tragic.
All of the things you mentioned are basically in zoos and treated like zoo animals.
Less than 7% of chinas forests can be listed as "old growth" and considering how much the CCP lies my bet is it's more like 4%.
that's the same in the US though. 6% old growth according to a quick google. Europe is even worse obviously
and yes many of those animals are endangered, many have gone extinct already. But they take environmental protection far more seriously now, as serious as anywhere and very efficient due to the near absolute power of the government, and many species are slowly but surely recovering.
all desert was once green, desertification has happened at incredible rates in China as well as in many other places around the world, but again at least China is taking big steps to stop or reverse it now.
Obviously China has fricked up, the whole world has, naturally China was a little later to the frick up the environement party than Europe or America, perhaps they should have known better by now, but Africa is making the same mistakes, it's a natural consequence of progress. But China's on the same page as us now in realizing some of their mistakes and wanting to fix them, and because of their govenrment they can strongarm fixes more efficiently than other places have been able to. Just 10 or 20 years ago China had some of the worst air pollution on the planet, nowadays it's mostly in line with the rest of the first world. They have a massive population, massive manufacturing and corresponding massive energy needs but they are at least trying to produce a lot of their energy with renewables. And yeah, sometimes this has it's own consequences with dams harming ecosystems or turbines killing birds, but it's damned (heh) either way.
what is treeline?
I'm not going to claim the US isn't an environmental catastrophe: it very much is.
China is worse--that's my point.
>What's a tree line
It's the Alpine line. The north of the Himalayas was deforested and never grew back--most of the foothills north of the Himalayas are below the alpine life yet have never recovered from the deforestation.
Similar to the south western united states. The major difference is the USA has a much smaller population and implemented a very restrictive park system before the ecological disaster could reach chinese levels.
I'm not going to defend the US corporate environmental policies but we do have a lot of private restoration organizations (like the beaver institute) which simply don't exist in china.
Here is an example of desertification in China.
This watershed has no absorption--nothing to push the water into the ground. The water flows from the mountain to the lake taking all the topsoil and soil nutrients with it. Worse, the lack of biomass also significantly reduces cloud nucleation (reducing rainfall).
This whole region would take decades to restore and this is what the entire north side of the Himalayas looks like.
This is almost entirely man made after thousands of years of forestry mismanagement.
This is comparable to the american south west but much much more further gone.
This is just a rainshadow of the Himalaya.
Same in the southwest US but with the Sierra.
>Clearly shows a flood cycle indicative of no ground water capture and cyclic rainfall
>hurr de durr trees don't grow in rain shadows
Hey you moronic frick face a massive chunk of lowland rainforests are IN rain shadows and trees create rain.
You don't know shit about forests--that much is obvious.
That is a dead zone that is indicative of other man made dead zones that have been restored. Even Saudi Arabia gets less water and has restored land even more arid and fricked than in that image.
The US southweast used to be heavily forested--when they genocided all the beavers the wetlands died with them and so did the SW rainforests.
The western expansion in the USA was one of the biggest environmental catastrophes --only eclipsed by the chinese communist rape of literally all of china.
>The US southweast used to be heavily forested--when they genocided all the beavers the wetlands died with them and so did the SW rainforests.
no
You don't know shit about the ecological history of America--thanks for playing now please stop lying about knowing anything about anything.
You need to learn not to feed trolls.
>Talking about the long term impact of draconian logging practices is "trolling"
this is the world we live in I guess...
That picture looks arid to me, not deforested.
This is what deforestation looks like hundreds of years later--in some cases it only takes 50 years. The Chinks have been actively fricking the environment for centuries.
Major portions of what are now arid lands are arid because of long term human habitation and the associated deforestation.
This is what the entire west coast of washington and oregon are going to look like in less than 100 years if they keep logging the way they are.
I climbed Xueshan in Taiwan last summer. Maybe the greatest hike I’ve ever done. There’s quite a few videos of hiking in that area. I can’t believe how much wilderness they have there.
>Taiwan
not china and never will be
The only thing I know of is this trail runner in Taiwan:
https://www.youtube.com/@BeastRunners
Maybe some good stuff will pop up in the Related videos.
There's a good series on Curiosity Stream I think called Wild China.
only things I've seen are some cycle tourers who went through China. Unicycle lad is one, also there was a guy on a recumbent bike.
Also serpentza and laowhy occasionally rode to nice places, their conquering southern/northern china series is good.