In Tanintharyi, an indigenous alternative to Big Conservation

22 May 2020 - Source: Frontier Myanmar Communities in biodiverse Tanintharyi Region are spurning big, top-down projects and seeking recognition for their own approach to conservation. By JACK JENKINS HILL | FRONTIER From its forested borderlands in the east to vast mangrove forests and hundreds of i...

Nantha Island and Mayyu Estuaries awarded Ramsar Site status

22 MAY 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - The Ramsar Convention, also known as the Convention on Wetlands, inscribed Myanmar's Nantha Island and Mayyu Estuaries as a Ramsar Site on 22 May, according to the convention's secretary office.The proposal to list as a Ramsar site was submitt...

Dolphin conservation campaign conducted in Ayeyawady

20 MAY 2020 - Source: Global New Light of Myanmar - Ayeyawady dolphin conservation poster and warning signs were erected in Ayeyawady region to protect and conserve the Ayeyawady dolphins. These activities are being carried out because people are selling the fish without obtaining the lega...

Two Mandalay lakes to get wetland protection

30 Sep 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - Mandalay Region's Sont Ye Lake in Kyaukse township and Paleik Lake in Tada-U will be designated as protected wetlands to conserve them and regulate development, a senior regional official said. U Myo Thit, regional minister for Natural Resources and Environmental ...

Plans underway for aerial seeding in Inle Lake area by helicopter

15 Sep 19 - Source: Mizzima - Aerial seeding will be jointly carried out in the Inle Lake areas in Shan State (South) by the Forestry Department under Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Conservation and the Htoo Companies Group. They will reportedly grow trees by aerial seeding in five pl...

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