Category: Myanmar
Myanmar environmental activist faces arrest
The court issued the arrest warrant for Saw Thar Baw of the Karen Rivers Watch Network, said Police Captain Myo Aung, acting township police chief.
Covid-19 allows India a chance to lend Myanmar a hand
Beijing is seeking to establish a China-Myanmar Economic Corridor while India is facilitating the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway.
In Eastern Myanmar, the Karen Watch Over a Revolutionary Forest
Rather than focusing strictly on nature preservation, the reserve’s backers promote indigenous land management systems like traditional swidden agriculture and forest management.
The house that trash built: Myanmar start-up turns clutter to handicrafts
The roof has been fashioned from old tyres, the walls are made of glass bottles and the lampshades from melted plastic, all items upcycled by the social enterprise.
Over 60% of Myanmar’s mangroves deforested in the last 20 years
New research shows that mangroves deforestation rates in Myanmar, an important country for mangrove extent and biodiversity, greatly exceed previous estimates.