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    Efforts to change Chin farming habits seek to slow harmful deforestation
    April 25, 2017in Chin, Environment, Lead Story, News396by PHYO THIHA CHO / MYANMAR NOW
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    Efforts to change Chin farming habits seek to slow harmful deforestation

    Can Chin State’s farmers move away from shifting cultivation and embrace sedentary agriculture in time to save the western region’s forests?

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    Burmese govt pledges conservation efforts at Inle Lake
    February 3, 2017in Environment, Lead Story, News, Travel & Tourism660by AUNG KO KO LATT / DVB
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    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.

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    The fight for Pegu's forests gets violent
    August 9, 2016in Environment, Lead Story, Logging, News135by HTET KHAUNG LINN / MYANMAR NOW
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    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.

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    Sagaing seizes 800 tons of illegally logged timber so far this year
    July 25, 2016in Crime, Environment, Lead Story, Logging, News169by THIHA SWE & YAN NAING SOE / DVB
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    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.

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    Loggers declare one-year moratorium
    July 6, 2016in Environment, Lead Story, Natural resources, News287by NAW NOREEN / DVB
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    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.

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    Government imposes logging ban, in latest bid to save forests
    April 29, 2016in Lead Story, Logging, News3by REUTERS
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    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.

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