I love doing something to help nature and society, not just for now, but for future.

– W.L. Hung, CEO

For some people who especially live in the cities, it’s hard for them to understand the value of nature such as wildlife animals, insects, plants, rivers, oceans, forests, and beautiful landscapes etc. The fact is, nature underpins our society, economy, lives, and our very existence indeed. We shouldn’t consider that nature is free, and often take it for granted and overexploit it.

To Will Legend, safeguard the glaciers, glacial water sources is to advocate:

1. Safeguard the Third Pole, Antarctic and Arctic, and slow down the glacier ablation rate
2. Build Will Legend “The Third Pole (HK) Glacier Museum”, promote glacier protection through education and popular science
3. Build Will Legend “Tian Shan (HK) Glacier Research Institute”, promote glacier protection through academic research collaborations
4. Lead the Public to safeguard glaciers, promote Glacier-Snow-Ecosystem school tour & research
5. Explore the “Green-Blueprint”, build “Glacier-Snow-Ecosystem, Glacier-Snow-Economy”
6. Let the Glacier Cool, safeguard Wildlife Corridor, Let the Ocean Breathe, live in harmony with nature
7. Will Legend “Let the Glacier Cool” as the starting point, practice the “Belt and Road Initiative” sustainable development goals for humans
8. Support the UN “Water for Sustainable Development” and the Paris Agreement
9. Support Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to declare 2025 the International Year for the Protection of Glaciers, & United Nations the World Day of Glaciers
10. “Dual Carbon Targets (carbon peak and carbon neutrality)” and low-carbon lifestyle
11. Build “Cradle of Ecosystem” as a seed bank for different living things
12. Promote circular economy, aims at future sustainable development and resource symbiosis
13. Adopt green energy (clean and renewable energy) such as wind energy, water energy, solar energy, and geothermal energy
14. Balance economic development goals with nature, and fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
15. Biodiversity and a balanced ecosystem are the treasures of humans, and the hope for humanity’s future

The three poles refers to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Arctic, and the Antarctic. Humans cannot survive without water and land. Tibetans living an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters atop the “Roof of the World” understand the preciousness of pure water and soil. There are many ancient glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau (the Third Pole) including Xinjiang. The melted water of the glaciers formed water sources. Water and land nourish the nature, forming oases on land, sending pulses through rivers, and giving birth to all living things, including humans. Similarly, meltwater from glaciers turns into rivers carrying nutrients, and eventually merges into the sea, nourishing marine life and “Let the Ocean Breathe”.

Will Legend and the public jointly build “Cradle of Ecosystem” that belongs to the future of humans, as a seed bank for different organisms and a habitat for them to breed and grow. After all, biodiversity and a balanced ecosystem are the treasures of humans, and the hope for humanity’s future. Will Legend is willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with the public to protect the cleanest regions on Earth. At the same time, we advocate the establishment of “Green Corridor” in different regions, including cities, and work together with the “seeds” of the future to explore and establish a “Green-Blueprint”, build “Glacier-Snow-Ecosystem, Glacier-Snow-Economy” to protect the fragile ecological environment and the Earth.

Glacier is magnificent, but it becomes very helpless and vulnerable when it faces the enemy of climate change. Glaciers have a very important function, which is to regulate solid and liquid water (glacier accumulation and glacier ablation). The greenhouse gases and black carbon suspended particles on the surface of ice and snow accelerates the rate of glacier ablation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Eventually the lake level may rise, flooding the grasslands and villages. Another situation is that, if the glaciers disappear due to rapid melting, the lakes and oases will also become dry land, and the livestock and local people that depend on it will not be able to continue.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters. As the Third Pole of the Earth, it is the ice and snow storage area second only to the Antarctic and the Arctic. Here is the starting point of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the mother rivers of the Chinese, and also the birthplace of 13 rivers in Asia, including the Mekong River, the Indus River, and the Ganges River. There are 50,000 square kilometers of lakes, 100,000 square kilometers of glaciers, 300,000 square kilometers of perennial snow, and more than 9 trillion cubic meters of water resources, which involve the survival and development of more than 2 billion people, so it is called the “Asian Water Tower”. According to the traditional Tibetan saying, Mount Gangdise is the “father of all mountains” and Lake Manasarovar (Mapang Yongcuo Lake) is “the source of all waters”, all mountains and waters in the world originate from this place.

The glaciers in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the huge glaciers in Xinjiang, such as the Qilian Mountains, Altai Mountains, Tianshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains form clean glacial water sources. Here is the starting point of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the mother rivers of the Chinese, and also the birthplace of 13 rivers in Asia, including the Mekong River, the Indus River, and the Ganges River. There is also the only river in China that flows northward into the Arctic Ocean – the Irtysh River, originating from the Altai Mountains.

There are 50,000 square kilometers of lakes, 100,000 square kilometers of glaciers, 300,000 square kilometers of perennial snow, and more than 9 trillion cubic meters of water resources, which involve the survival and development of more than 2 billion people, so it is called the “Asian Water Tower”. According to the traditional Tibetan saying, Mount Gangdise is the “father of all mountains” and Lake Manasarovar (Mapang Yongcuo Lake) is “the source of all waters”, all mountains and waters in the world originate from this place.

In August 2021, professor Wang Feiteng, a researcher at the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Cryosphere Monitoring Program (GCW) Expert Team and Third Pole Regional Climate Service Center (TPRCC) expert team member, led a team to the Dagu Glacier in Heishui County of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province to conduct experiments on slowing glacier melting. The energy required for glacier ablation mainly comes from the short-wave radiation of the sun. The absorption of short-wave radiation by glaciers mainly depends on the albedo of the glacier surface. In the two-month experiment, the melting speed of the glacier covered with insulating blankets was significantly slower. Compared with the glacier without any protective measures, the thickness of the melting slowed down to 1 meter.

Will Legend uses the meaning of Tibetan prayer flags to let the glaciers cool. (Red – Fire) Build a large fan (wind power generation) to blow away the hot and high temperature for the glaciers; (Yellow – Land) Plant sunflowers and flowering plants on the land to cool down the glaciers; (Green – Water) Increase the number of phytoplankton in the ocean to absorb greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) for glaciers; (Blue – Sky) Build land-based blue ocean photovoltaic power generation, let heat becomes vitality; (White – White Clouds) Build “Cooling Patch” (reflective heat insulation materials) to reflect short-wave solar radiation.

As the climate situation becomes more severe, Will Legend believes that plans organized and led at the community level can be implemented more effectively, which is crucial for people and ecosystems. The essence behind the various glacier-saving experiments or campaigns introduced by Will Legend is from the perspective of education and popular science, so that the public and our next generation can pay more attention to the problem of glacier shrinkage and retreat. Then through other land and ocean conservation programs also founded by Will Legend, to absorb carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere to tackle climate change and truly achieve a long-term solution.