Can Chin State’s farmers move away from shifting cultivation and embrace sedentary agriculture in time to save the western region’s forests?
Tag: deforestation
Burmese govt pledges conservation efforts at Inle Lake
The iconic lake is suffering from degradation, mostly caused by deforestation and the constant daily pounding of thousands of visitors.
The fight for Pegu's forests gets violent
As the NLD government steps up efforts to protect Burma’s forests, officers in the Pegu mountain range face off with increasingly violent loggers.
Sagaing seizes 800 tons of illegally logged timber so far this year
Police in Sagaing Division say there has been a noticeable increase in illegal logging activities since a one-year ban went into effect on 1 June.
Loggers declare one-year moratorium
Burma’s largest producer of timber has declared a nationwide, one-year moratorium on logging, according to a spokesperson for the state-owned enterprise.
Government imposes logging ban, in latest bid to save forests
The move comes two years after an earlier effort to slow deforestation by banning the export of raw timber.