Category: Myanmar
In the dam’s shadow Displaced by conflict, communities are left without a home or electricity
Regardless of where they lived in the areas where dams were planned, the villagers’ stories are similar. They were promised, coerced or threatened into leaving their homes.
Myanmar must improve community forestry plan to fight climate change
Community forestry strengthens community land rights, develops local livelihoods, and conserves precious ecosystems.
Slower, smaller, cheaper: the reality of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor
The numbers would suggest that although China and Chinese companies are investing in Myanmar, the investment strategy is geared toward smaller projects instead of the mega infrastructure projects for which the BRI is associated.
Myanmar plans to form EERU to reduce human-elephant conflict
As their habitats shrink, wild elephants come close to human settlements in search of food and this leads to human-elephant conflicts. That’s why the killing rate of wild elephants increased.
From Myanmar to Gabon, Countries Turn to Nature to Cut Climate Risks
Myanmar is highly vulnerable to extreme weather and is looking to reforest 600,000 hectares over the next 10 years, in part to cut its climate risks.