After at least three dry weeks ... such as the FAO remind that the Myanmar’s government should take all possible steps to support the sustainability of the forest-dependent people and beyond.

Tony Neil, forest governance adviser at Burmese environmental group EcoDev, said the current dry season has seen an “unprecedented” amount of timber crossing the China-Myanmar border, with several ...

In Myanmar, 38% of forest cover is intact forest and during the study period the authors found that this intact forest declined by 11% (more than 2 million hectares) with an annual loss of 0.94%.

Though Myanmar had 65 percent tree cover in 2000 ... in order to separate dry forests from other forest entities, such as evergreen forests, which [have] different seasonal signals,” Wohlfart ...

Forest conversion for commercial agriculture is accelerating at an "unprecedented rate" in Myanmar, putting the country’s biodiversity at risk and increasing the likelihood of land conflicts ...

June 17 (Reuters) - Some camps dotted in the forest have a few dozen people, some more than a thousand. The displaced sleep packed together under plastic sheeting for protection from Myanmar's ...

Ashen earth strewn with the limbs of once-mighty trees is all that is left of the fearsome forest in central Myanmar that Wa Tote remembers from her youth. "We would only dare enter in a big group.

Myanmar's rich forests are among its most valuable natural resources, but they have been plundered by logging that helped fund the former military regime that ran the country for 49 years ...

In Photo: Than Lwin sits atop a tamed elephant, which carries a log at Myanmar government-owned tame-elephant hut in Kabyin Lwin, northern Sagaing division, Myanmar. Since May 2016, the Myanmar ...

YANGON: Myanmar has designated two new protected public forest areas in Chin state and Shan state, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation on Friday (June 14).