Preservation of the environment in Burma/Myanmar

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Description: “The forest is an invaluable treasure. Even if a person has a lot of money and can build hundreds of buildings, they cannot create a single leaf. So we must plant trees since we can breathe better because of them...”
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Source/publisher: Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
2019-08-13
Date of entry/update: 2020-01-06
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Description: "The fear that haunts Ko Than Htoo, who is the main breadwinner for his five-member family, is that Inle Lake will one day dry up. He has been a boatman for over 25 years. Only two years ago he had to leave nearby Pekon Lake after the water level went down to the point of his boat running aground. Enlisted as a Ramsar site and a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve, Inle Lake is the second largest in Myanmar. It has long hosted a rich diversity of bird and fish species. However that is under threat by deforestation, pollution, unsustainable agriculture and tourism. “My livelihood is attached to this lake. I am concerned about its future because I have witnessed the impact of decreased water level in the other lake. The people never stopped cutting down trees up in the hills and every time there was rain, all the mud and silt from upstream would flow down to the lake,” says Ko Than Htoo. “We should do something to keep this lake alive so that it keeps us alive.”..."
Source/publisher: UN Development Programme (UNDP) (New York)
2019-11-13
Date of entry/update: 2019-12-05
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Description: "On this day, the 5th of April 2019, we the indigenous Karen communities of the Salween Peace Park gather to mark a moment of sorrow, and one of hope. Today marks the formal establishment of the Salween Peace Park General Assembly, with the swearing in of its 106 members who represent communities from the Park’s 26 village tracts, Mutraw District Karen National Union, and Karen civil society..."
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Source/publisher: Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
2019-04-08
Date of entry/update: 2019-12-02
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Description: “In this time of so-called peace building, large dams like the Hatgyi project are driving conflict, uprooting people from their homes and indigenous territories, and forcing thousands to become IDPs and refugees”....
Creator/author: KESAN
Source/publisher: Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
2019-03-14
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-18
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Sgaw Karen, (Burmese မန်မာဘာသာ), English
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Description: “In this time of so-called peace building, large dams like the Hatgyi project are driving conflict, uprooting people from their homes and indigenous territories, and forcing thousands to become IDPs and refugees”....
Creator/author: KESAN
Source/publisher: Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
2019-03-14
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-18
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Sgaw Karen, (Burmese မန်မာဘာသာ), English
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Description: "The three-day environmental and cultural knowledge exchange program was co-organized by the Salween Peace Park Committee and Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN) from October 24 to 26, 2018 at KESAN’s Indigenous Eco-Learning Center in Ta May Hta Village, Lu Thaw Township, Mutraw District, Karen State, Burma. More than 80 participants representing students, youth, teachers, and community leaders actively participated in the program..."
Source/publisher: Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
2019-01-10
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-18
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Sgaw Karen, (English sub-titles)
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Description: "On December 18th, the indigenous Karen communities of Mutraw District officially declare the establishment of the Salween Peace Park. This declaration is to fulfill the collective vision for a grassroots pathway to peace and self-determination, and their responsibility to transfer our ancestral domain to the new generation with abundant forest and clean water. Almost 1000 people, comprising representatives from our communities in Mutraw District, the KNU, Karen CBOs, ethnic representatives from across Burma/ Myanmar and journalists- both domestic and from abroad, joined the event..."
Creator/author: KESAN
Source/publisher: Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
2019-01-09
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-28
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Sgaw Karen, Burmese and English sub-titles
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Description: "In this booklet, there are three main sections. The first section, from chapter 1 through 3, explains the cement production process, and the second section, from chapters 4 through 7, discusses its potential impacts on the environment, health, and society. The last section, from chapters 8 through 11, provides information about minimization of negative impacts including international standards and principles, effective strategies to help local communities engage with cement companies and influence decisionmaking processes, and a case study from Karen State. A glossary is included at the end of the booklet for easy reference of technical terms..."
Source/publisher: KESAN
2016-01-08
Date of entry/update: 2018-11-05
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Description: "In this Karen language booklet, there are three main sections. The first section, from chapter 1 through 3, explains the cement production process, and the second section, from chapters 4 through 7, discusses its potential impacts on the environment, health, and society. The last section, from chapters 8 through 11, provides information about minimization of negative impacts including international standards and principles, effective strategies to help local communities engage with cement companies and influence decision making processes, and a case study from Karen State. A glossary is included at the end of the booklet for easy reference of technical terms ..."
Source/publisher: KESAN
2016-04-02
Date of entry/update: 2018-10-29
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Description: "တရားမျှတမှုကို အားကောင်းစေခြင်း - ဘိလပ်မြေထုတ်လုပ်ခြင်းနှင့် ၎င်း၏သက်ရောက်မှုများဆိုင်ရာ လူမှုအသိုင်အဝန်းလက်စွဲ” သည် ထိုင်း - မြန်မာနယ်စပ်အပါအဝင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်းတည်ရှိသော အောက်ခြေအဆင့်လူမှုအသိုင်းအဝန်းနှင့် လူထုအခြေပြုအဖွဲ့အစည်းများကို ဘိလပ်မြေထုတ်လုပ်ခြင်းလုပ်ငန်းအဆင့်ဆင့်၊ လူမှုဆိုင်ရာနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်အရင်းအမြစ်များအပေါ် ဘေးဆိုးသက်ရောက်မှုများနှင့် ပတ်သက်သောသိသင့်သိထိုက်သည့် ဗဟုသုတများပေးရန်ရည်ရွယ်သည်။ ထို့အပြင် ဒေသခံလူမှုအသိုင်းအဝန်းနှင့်လူထုအခြေပြုအဖွဲ့အစည်းများအနေဖြင့် ၎င်းတို့ဘိုးဘွားအစဉ်အဆက် ထိန်းသိမ်းလာခဲ့သောမြေများ၊ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်အရင်းအမြစ်များအပြင် ၎င်းတို့၏အခွင့်အရေး ကာကွယ်နိုင်ရန်ထိရောက်သော၊ လက် တွေ့ကျသောမဟာဗျူဟာများ ချမှတ်နိုင်ရေးအတွက် ရည်ရွယ်ထုတ်ဝေသည်။..."
Source/publisher: KESAN
2016-01-11
Date of entry/update: 2018-10-29
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Description: "... Without local support, the long-term existence of PAs is not assured (Wells and McShane 2004). Local people are unlikely to support PAs if they have negative perceptions and attitudes toward them (Alkan et al. 2009). An attitude is a cognitive evaluation of a particular entity with favor or disfavor, and it reflects the beliefs that people hold about the attitude object or entity (Eagly and Chaiken 1998). Beliefs are the associations that people establish between the attitude object and various attributes (Allendorf 2007). Attitudes toward PAs, conservation, or wildlife may be influenced by PA staff or management interventions, local economic needs and history, or other indirectly related socioeconomic factors such as government policy. The cognitions or thoughts that are associated with attitudes are typically termed beliefs by attitude theorists (Eagly and Chaiken 1998). Perception refers to people?s beliefs that derive from their experiences and interaction with a program or activity. Xu et al. (2006) argue that local people?s perceptions are related to costs and benefits produced by PAs, their dependence on PA resources, and their knowledge about PAs. The influences of socioeconomic characteristics on local people?s perceptions and attitudes toward an adjacent PA are often site-specific and inconsistent (Allendorf et al. 2006; Baral and Heinen 2007; Mehta and Heinen 2001; Rao et al. 2003; Shibia 2010; Shrestha and Alavalapati 2006; Xu et al. 2006). Some studies report that education is a strong predictor of attitude (Allendorf et al. 2006; Mehta and Heinen 2001; Shibia 2010; Shrestha and Alavalapati 2006; Xu et al. 2006), while others have found no correlation between educational status and people?s perceptions and attitudes (Baral and Heinen 2007; Mehta and Heinen 2001). Mehta and Heinen (2001), Allendorf et al. (2006), and Xu et al. (2006) reported that women were less likely to hold positive attitudes, whereas Baral and Heinen (2007) and Shibia (2010) found no correlation between gender and attitude. Allendorf et al. (2006) and Shrestha and Alavalapati (2006) found that individuals from larger families have negative attitudes to PAs, whereas Xu et al. (2006) reported that individuals from larger families hold positive attitudes toward PAs. Jim and Xu (2002) and Alkan et al. (2009) argue that local people?s perceptions and attitudes are shaped by their knowledge about the neighboring PA. This knowledge might include objectives, activities, size, regulations, or location of the boundary of PAs (Jim and Xu 2002; Rao et al. 2003; Xu et al. 2006). The knowledge is gained empirically through one?s perceptions, and it is the recognition of something sensed or felt (Ziadat 2010). It is important to investigate whether more knowledge of PAs would be associated with positive perceptions and attitudes toward them. We examined the effects of both knowledge and socioeconomic factors on the perceptions and attitudes of local people toward Popa Mountain Park, in central Myanmar, and its management through a questionnaire survey. Myanmar is one of the biodiversity hotspots in the world, and its PAs play a crucial role in conserving the country?s rich biodiversity (Myers et al. 2000). During the last 10 years the number of protected areas in Myanmar has increased from 20 to 42, covering 7.3% of total land area of the country (Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division 2008). The Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division (NWCD) of the Forest Department, Ministry of Forestry, is mainly responsible for PA management in Myanmar. Generally, PAs in Myanmar can be categorized into national park, marine park, wildlife sanctuary, nature reserve, and zoo park. Although Myanmar?s PAs do not fully conform to PA categories of the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN), they are most similar to IUCN category IV (Aung 2007). Myanmar?s PA management rules and regulations prohibit local people from using resources within PAs. Conflicts arise as local people often have no other source of resource than the PA. Rao, Rabinowitz, and Khaing (2002) reported that nontimber forest products were extracted from 85% and fuelwood was collected from more than 50% of PAs in Myanmar. The mean annual population growth rate is 2.1% (Central Statistics Organisation 2006) and is highest in rural areas where most Myanmar PAs are located. Population increase is linked to an increase in the number of people seeking land for grazing, collecting fuelwood, and extracting timber and other forest products. The rapid growth of PAs and the huge pressures placed on them by the increasing human population are a great challenge for sustainable PA management. Popa Mountain Park (PMP) possesses a diverse forest ecosystem in central Myanmar where most forests have already disappeared. PMP was selected for the present study for two reasons: (1) a historic relationship between PMP and local communities and (2) high people?s pressure on the park resulting from the high population density together with resource scarcity in the surrounding area. The Forest Department has had great success in the reforestation of Popa Mountain, which is a high priority for forest conservation. It is important to understand local people?s perceptions and attitudes toward PMP for its sustainability. The objectives of the present study were (1) to examine the responses of local people toward the park and its management and (2) to study how local people?s perceptions and attitudes toward the PA and its management relate to their socioeconomic status and knowledge about the park..."
Creator/author: Naing Zaw Htun, Nobuya Mizoue, Shigejiro Yoshida
Source/publisher: Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry (MOECAF)
2015-10-13
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "... From grassroots conservation projects to international committees on the environment, women are often underrepresented in the conservation process (Deda and Rubian 2004; Sodhi et al. 2010). Women?s participation is often limited to awareness-raising activities and labor contribution projects (Arya 2007). In their review of implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Deda and Rubian (2004) conclude that greater efforts must be made to address the gender disparity in biodiversity conservation policy and actions. Positive relationships between local residents and protected areas are critical to the long-term successful conservation of protected areas. Ensuring that women?s perspectives are included in our understanding of those relationships is not only an important component of a fair and inclusive conservation process, but also has positive practical implications for conservation of protected areas. On one hand, this is because protected areas can disproportionately impact women. For example, women have been shown to bear a greater share of the psychological and physical costs of wildlife conflicts in India (Ogra 2008). If these differences are not recognized, women may receive fewer direct benefits from conservation and be left bearing more costs (Hunter et al. 1990). On the other hand, women can make significant contributions to conservation. Westermann et al. (2005) found in natural resource management groups in 20 countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, that collaboration, solidarity, and conflict resolution were greater in groups where women were present. In Nepal and India, Agarwal (2009) found that greater women?s participation in forestry groups was correlated with better forest condition, in terms of both conservation and regeneration, and increased forest patrolling and rule compliance. Unfortunately, our understanding of gender in the context of people?s attitudes toward protected areas (PAs) is limited. Many studies limit their sample to household heads, who are most often men (e.g., Tessema et al. 2010; Vodouheˆ et al. 2010), or do not break down results by gender (e.g., Silori 2007; Rinzin et al. 2009). Studies that include gender as one of many socioeconomic characteristics that may influence people?s relationships with PAs, along with others such as education and wealth, have had mixed results. Some studies find that men have more positive attitudes toward specific protected areas (Mehta and Heinen 2001; Xu et al. 2006; King and Peralvo 2010), some find women more positive (Arjunan et al. 2006), and some find no difference (Bauer 2003; Carrus et al. 2005; Wang et al. 2006; Baral and Heinen 2007; Ferreira and Freire 2009). As described earlier, studies examine the role of gender in conservation without attention to attitudes toward protected areas or they explore the determinants of attitudes toward protected areas without a focus on gender. To our knowledge, however, there are no studies that focus on the effect of gender on attitudes toward protected areas. Thus, this article contributes to the literature by directly examining gender differences in local residents? perceptions of protected areas in Myanmar. We explore whether men and women differ in their attitudes toward the protected areas and perceptions of protected area benefits and problems. Then we explore whether gendered differences in perceptions and socioeconomic characteristics account for any difference in women?s and men?s attitude toward the protected areas..."
Creator/author: Teri D. Allendorf, Keera Allendorf
Source/publisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois
2015-10-13
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-22
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Language: English
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Description: ဤနိုးဆော်မှုများသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲသော ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကဏ္ဍများတွင်ပါဝင်မည့် အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၊ တသီးပုဂ္ဂလများအတွက် အချက်အလက်ရင်းမြစ်များပင် ဖြစ်သည်။ ဤအချက်အလက် ရင်းမြစ်များသည် ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲသောဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးအယူအဆ၊ မြန်မာ အစိုးရ၏ တာဝန်ဝတ္တရားများနှင့် ဆောင်ရွက်ရန်ရှိသည့်အချက်အလက်များကိုဖော်ပြသည်။ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲသောဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးသည် နိုင်ငံ၏သဘာဝသယံဇာတအရင်းအမြစ်နှင့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ကို ထိခိုက်ပျက်စီးစေမှု မရှိဘဲ လူသားတို့၏လိုအပ်ချက်၊ အထူးသဖြင့် အမှန်တကယ်အကာအကွယ့်မဲ့ဒုက္ခရောက်လျက်ရှိသော လူမှုအဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၏ လိုအပ်ချက်ကို တိုက်ရိုက်အကျိုးသက်ရောက်စေမည့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ဖြစ်သည်။ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲသော ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးသည် သဘာဝကမ္ဘာမြေကြီး နှင့် လူနေထိုင်မှုဘဝတို့ကို ကဏ္ဍပေါင်းစုံဖြင့် ဆက်စပ်လျက်ရှိသည်။ ကဏ္ဍပေါင်းစုံဟုဆိုရာတွင် ဇီဝမျိုးကွဲများ (သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်အတွင်း ကွဲပြားမှုအမျိုးမျိုး)၊ မြေယာ (သတ္တုတွင်းတူးဖော်ခြင်း အပါအဝင်)၊ သစ်တောများ၊ စိုက်ပျိုးရေး၊ ရေ၊ စွမ်းအင်နှင့် စီးပွားရေးတို့ဖြစ်သည်။...
Source/publisher: Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG)
2012-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: "... This is a resource for organisations and individuals advocating about sustainable development issues in Burma. This resource provides information about the concept of sustainable development and about the government of Burma?s commitments and responsibilities when it comes to sustainable development. Sustainable development is development that does not damage the environment or the country?s natural resources, and that meets people?s needs, including the needs of the most vulnerable communities. Sustainable development relates to many aspects of the natural world and of people?s lives. These aspects include: biodiversity (variety in the natural environment), land (including mining), forests, agriculture, water, energy, and the economy..."
Source/publisher: Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG)
2012-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Ndai gaw uhpung uhpawng ni hte tinghkrai hku nna myen mung Kata n amazing bawng ring lam a matu sut nhprang laika rai nga ai. Ndai sut nhprang laika gaw, matut manoi kyem mazing bawng ring masa a shiga hte dai mazing bawng ring lam galaw sa wa yang myen mungdan a ap nawng ai hte lit la ai shiga hpe jaw nga ai. Madi shadaw kyem mazing bawng ring masa gaw makau grup yin hpe n jahten shaza ai (sh) mungdan a shingra nhprang sut rai hpe n jahten ai bawngring lam rai nna grau jahten shaza hkrum ai shinggyim uhpawng ni mada? shawa masha ni hta ra ai lam ni hpe jahkum shatsup ya nga ai. Kawn” mazing bawng ring lam gaw shingra mungkan hte shinggyim masha ni a asak hkrung lam hta na nsam maka law law hte matut mahkai nga ai. Ndai nsam maka kumla ni hta lawm ai gaw sakhkrung hpan hkum (grup yin nga ai arai amyu baw hkum sumhpa), lamu ga (ja maw, sut nhprang maw ni lawm ai), nam maling hkai sun, hka tsam n-gun hte sut masa ni rai nga ma ai.
Source/publisher: Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG)
2012-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Kachin
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Description: "... This is a resource for organisations and individuals advocating about sustainable development issues in Burma. This resource provides information about the concept of sustainable development and about the government of Burma?s commitments and responsibilities when it comes to sustainable development. Sustainable development is development that does not damage the environment or the country?s natural resources, and that meets people?s needs, including the needs of the most vulnerable communities. Sustainable development relates to many aspects of the natural world and of people?s lives. These aspects include: biodiversity (variety in the natural environment), land (including mining), forests, agriculture, water, energy, and the economy..."
Source/publisher: Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG)
2012-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Shan
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Description: "... Officials of Myanmar recognize that with a certain development in the country, deforestation, water pollution and other adverse environmental conditions may have occurred, though off the record, from various economic and industrial sectors. Like elsewhere in the world, the demands of a growing population and a market-oriented economy have altered consumption patterns and infringed on natural resources. In the effort to keep a balance between development and environment, Myanmar has made efforts and will have to sustain them to protect the environment. Whatever the awareness and commitment, the efforts may not be perfect in achieving this comprehensive task; there is strength and so are the weaknesses. This paper is to track down the success in this aspect and identify the challenges that may be awaiting..."
Creator/author: Myo Nyunt
Source/publisher: Yangon Technical University
2008-06-17
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "... Myanmar is a predominantly agricultural country in Mekong River Basin, also known as Burma, the second largest country in mainland South-East Asia, known as the ??Asia?s Barn?? in the past years, once the world?s largest exporter of rice. Myanmar is a resource-rich country that has abundant arable land, timber, mineral resources, natural gas and oil, which made it one of the best developing countries in South-East Asia until the early 1960s. Myanmar?s total area is 676 578 km2. Forest area is 317 730 km2, 48.32% of land area; other wooded land accounts for 30.59% of land area; other land accounts for 21.09% of land area, and inland water area is 19 030 km2 (FAO, 2010). Extensive changes in altitude and latitude produced a seemingly unparalleled abundance of habitats and species. Myanmar occupied completely or partially nine of the Global 200 Eco-regions (Olson and Dinerstein, 2002). Indo-Burma includes most of Myanmar is described as one of the eight hottest biodiversity hotspots (Myers et al., 2000). There is no doubt that Myanmar has an unmatched level of biological diversity. Myanmar has 7000 plant species, has 1027 known bird species, 4 of which are endemic, and 19 others are restricted range birds. Myanmar is also home to 300 known species of mammals, 425 reptile and amphibian species, and 350 freshwater fish, especially the endangered species such as the one-horned rhinoceros, the Irrawaddy Dolphin and the Gurney?s Pitta (BEWG, 2011)..."
Creator/author: Changjian Wang, Fei Wang, Qiang Wang, Degang Yang, Lianrong Li, Xinlin Zhang
Source/publisher: Chinese Academy of Sciences
2012-11-09
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "... Evolution of the Myanmar strategy of forest restoration is reviewed and five types of forest plantations, with different sets of objectives, under different ecological conditions are described. Socio-economic and environmental issues of reforestation through plantation forestry are discussed and technical aspects of site selection, species choice, nursery practice, planting methods and follow-up silvicultural treatments are briefly presented. Use of well-adapted genetic resources; correct site/species matching, good silviculture and sustained protection at all stages from seed collection to harvesting is stressed. Priority areas of further research needs are also indicated..."
Creator/author: Sein Maung Wint
Source/publisher: Forest Resource Environment Development and Conservation Association (FREDA)
1993-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-04-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Introduction: "This might refer to our relationship with the environment just as well as to that between a man and a woman. Our relationship with the environment requires careful attention for we must take care of it if we want it to reciprocate. Around the globe today, that relationship is being challenged. We are here in a wondrous and wonderful part of the world. This sketch of Asia?s major rivers flowing down from the Tibetan plateau illustrates just how central our location is, both geographically and in terms of the hundreds of millions of human lives and other biological phenomena impacted by the flow of these waters. The river of concern for me today is the Salween, in some locations called the Nu Jiang or the Thanlwin. Lately my focus has been on Myanmar (Burma) and its current struggles to emerge form a long period of difficult political and economic conditions. Many, dare I say all of us, desire to help this great country to achieve higher levels of prosperity and sustainable well-­being. One focal point for many has become the Salween..." .....Paper delivered at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-­25 July 2015
Creator/author: James Lin Compton
Source/publisher: International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-­25 July 2015
2015-07-25
Date of entry/update: 2015-08-06
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Description: "...The forests of the Dawna Tenasserim are under pressure from deforestation due to agricultural expansion and logging, forest fragmentation, subsistence poaching, commercial poaching for the illegal wildlife trade, unsustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products and wild meat, and major infrastructure development such as roads, pipelines and dams...WWF is conserving the Dawna Tenasserim Landscape as an intact ecosystem with protected and connected habitats for wildlife, and safeguarding its valuable ecosystem services for local communities and the nations of Myanmar and Thailand..."
Source/publisher: World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
2014-02-18
Date of entry/update: 2014-09-20
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Description: မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်အလုပ်အဖွဲ့ (စက်တင်ဘာ ၂ဝဝ၉)...မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် အလုပ်အဖွဲ့ (BEWG) အကြောင်း? အစီရင်ခံစာ အကျဉ်းချုပ်? နေရာအမည်များနှင့် ငွေကြေး အခေါ်အဝေါ်မှတ်စုများ ? မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမြေပုံနှင့် ဖြစ်ရပ်မှန်လေ့လာမှုဒေသများ ? နိဒါန်း ? ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်? မြေလှန်ပစ်ခြင်း။ ဒီရေတောများ ဖျက်ဆီး ပစ်ခြင်းနှင့် ဒေသခံကမ်းရိုးတမ်း လူမှု အသိုက်အဝန်းများ အပေါ် သက်ရောက် မှုများ။ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်နှင့် စီးပွားရေးဖွံဖြိုး တိုးတက်မှု လုပ်ငန်းကွန်ယက် (NEED-Burma)? တရုတ် ရေနံရှာဖွေ တူးဖော်ခြင်း ခြိမ်းခြောက်မှုကို ခံနေ ရသော မိရိုးဖလာ ရေနံတွင်းတူးသူများ? အာရ်ရကန် ရေနံစောင့်ကြည့် လေ့လာရေးအဖွဲ့ (AOW)? ကချင်ပြည်နယ် ကချင် ရိုးရာ တိုင်းရင်းဆေး လုပ်ငန်း အစီအစဉ်၊ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ထိန်း သိမ်းခြင်းနှင့် ဝင်ငွေဖန်တည်းခြင်း အတွက် အခွင့် အလမ်းများဖန်တီးခြင်း။ ပန်ကချင်လူမှုအသိုက်အဝန်း ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (PKDS)? ဟူးကောင်း ချိုင့်ဝှမ်း ကျားထိန်းသိမ်းရေး နယ်မြေရှိ ကချင်ပြည်သူများ အခန်းကဏ္ဍ၊ ကချင် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး လုပ်ငန်းကွန်ယက်အဖွဲ့ (KDNG) ? ကရင်ပြည်နယ် အတွင်းရှိ။ သဘာဝ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ကာကွယ်စောင့် ရှောက်ခြင်း။ ဌာနေ တိုင်းရင်း သားများ အသိပညာ နှင့် အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်းမှု၊ သဘာဝ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ထိန်းသိမ်းသော လူမှုအသိုက်အဝန်းတစ်ခု ကိုလေ့လာခြင်း၊ ကရင်သဘာဝ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် နှင့် လူမှုရေး လှုပ်ရှားမှု ကွန်ယက် (KESAN) ? မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ သဘာဝ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် အလုပ်အဖွဲ့ ကရင်ပြည် နယ် မြောက် ဘက်ခြမ်း အတွင်း အစားအစာ လုံခြုံမှု နှင့် ဒေသခံ ပြည်သူများ ရင်ဆိုင် ဖြေရှင်းခြင်း နည်းလမ်းများ အပေါ်ခြိမ်းခြောက်မှုများ။ ကရင်သဘာဝ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် နှင့် လူမှုရေး လှုပ်ရှားမှု ကွန်ယက် (KESAN)? ပဲခူးတိုင်း။ ရွှေကျင်မြို့နယ်အတွင်း ရွှေတူးဖော်ခြင်း။ မြေကမ္ဘာအခွင့်အရေး(EarthRights International)? နှစ်မြုပ်ပစ်လိုက်ခြင်း - တာဆန်းရေကာတာ နှင့် ဒေသခံ ရှမ်းလူမှုအသိုက် အဝန်းနှင့်သဘာဝ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်အပေါ် သက်ရောက်မှု။ ရှမ်းသဘာဝ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေး အဖွဲ့ (Sapawa)? မူးယစ်ဆေးဝါး တိုင်းပြည် တည်ဆောက်ခြင်း နှင့် သန္တာကျောက်တန်း ဖောက်ခွဲခြင်း။ ညံ့ဖျင်းသည့် နိုင်ငံတော်က ကျောထောက် နောက်ခံ ပြု ထားသော ဖွံဖြိုး တိုးတက်ရေး လုပ်ငန်း စီမံချက်များနှင့် လားဟူ ပြည်သူများအပေါ် သက်ရောက်မှုများ။ လားဟူအမျိုးသား ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (LNDO)?
Source/publisher: Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG)
2009-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2012-02-12
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Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: CONTENTS Acknowledgments ...About BEWG ... Executive Summary... Notes on Place Names and Currency... Burma Map & Case Study Areas ... Introduction ..... Arakan State: Cut into the Ground: The Destruction of Mangroves and its Impacts on Local Coastal Communities (Network for Environmental and Economic Development - Burma)... Traditional Oil Drillers Threatened by Chinaâ�?„?s Oil Exploration (Arakan Oil Watch)..... Kachin State: Kachin Herbal Medicine Initiative: Creating Opportunities for Conservation and Income Generation (Pan Kachin Development Society) ... The Role of Kachin People in the Hugawng Valley Tiger Reserve (Kachin Development Networking Group) ..... Karen State: Environmental Protection, Indigenous Knowledge and Livelihood in Karen State: A Focus on Community Conserved Areas (Karen Environmental and Social Action Network) ... Threats to Food Security and Local Coping Strategies in Northern Karen State (Karen Environmental and Social Action Network) ... Gold Mining in Shwegyin Township, Pegu Division (EarthRights International) ..... Shan State: Drowned Out: The Tasang Dam and its Impacts on Local Shan Communities and the Environment (Shan Sapawa Environmental Organization) ... Building up of the Narco-State and Reef Blasting: Failed State-Sponsored Development Projects and their Impacts on the Lahu People (Lahu National Development Organization)
Source/publisher: Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG)
2009-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-12-04
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Description: Despite political restrictions, monks in Burma are a force to preserve nature... "Buddhist monks have always been a potent force for political and social change in Burma, from protesting against colonialism to providing basic education. Over the past decade, some monks have even begun to promote environmental conservation. While environmentalist monks are fairly common in Thailand and Cambodia, in Burma they are little known and little studied. For my undergraduate thesis, I studied several aspects of these environmentalist monks, and I feel it is safe to conclude that they work mostly in a decentralized fashion and that political, ecological, and cultural factors unique to Burma limit the role they can play..."
Creator/author: Dominic Nardi
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 14, No.2
2006-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2006-05-01
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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