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On March 29, ethnic environmental protection organizations from the Myanmar side, along with Thai civil environmental groups, gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to tackle the surge in wildfire incidents and the accompanying air pollution, caused by smoke from burning fires in the Salween River areas along the Thailand-Myanmar border.

To worry about the land and stress over their legal relationship with it is the condition of the Karen people today.

Community land for most Indigenous Karen people in Myanmar is not subject to ownership — it is rather a source of their faith, a divine creator of which the Karen are solely the custodians. Despite this belief, Karen communities living in the southern Kayin state (or Kawthoolei, as Karen nationalists call it) have taken part […]

What works better: protected areas managed by the state, or areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and local communities? More than 50 different researchers came together to try to settle this debate. But their review of the scientific literature, published recently in Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources, concluded with what some might find to be […]

On 27 March 2021, the natural sounds of the teak and bamboo forests of eastern Myanmar — calling birds, croaking frogs and barking deer — were drowned out by a deluge of falling bombs. Over the following week, the bombs continued to fall on forests and villages, damaging schools, hospitals and farmland, in the heart […]

Can Sanctions Work in Myanmar? Sanctions and mass boycotts have hurt the junta and driven investors away. Could stronger steps actually bring about regime change? May 21, 2021 Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger salute during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, May 14, 2021. Credit: AP Photo Advertisement More than 100 days after the February coup in Myanmar, and with no sign of action from a divided U.N. Security Council, international sanctions and b...

For border-crossing Thai tigers, the forest on the other side isn’t as green by Carolyn Cowan on 3 February 2021 Straddling the Myanmar-Thai border, the Dawna Tenasserim Landscape (DTL) is the intersection of four different biogeographic zones and consequently supports rich species diversity. The ecosystem is particularly important for the survival of Southeast Asia’s big cats, including the Indochinese tiger. Large, wide-ranging species like tigers require connected networks of forests to...