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The Online Burma/Myanmar Library (OBL) is a non-profit online research library mainly in English and Burmese serving academics, activists, diplomats, NGOs, CSOs, CBOs and other Burmese and international actors. It is also, of course, open to the general public. Though we provide lists of Burma/Myanmar news sources, the Library’s main content is not news but in-depth articles, reports, laws, videos and links to other websites, We provide a search engine (database and full text) and an alphabetical list of categories and sub-categories, but the Library is best accessed through browsing the 100 or so categories which lead to sub- and sub-sub categories. These tools should be used in combination.
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Displaying 881 - 885 of 1151Southern Asia: Along the coasts of India, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Thailand - Indo-Malayan (IM1404)
Biome: Mangroves...
Size: 8,200 square miles...
Conservation Status: Critical/Endangered...
G200: No..
How Blaming ‘Slash and Burn’ Farmers is Deforesting Mainland Southeast Asia
Summary: "For decades, international lenders, agencies, and foundations
as well as national and local governments have spent millions of dollars trying
to “modernize” the traditional practices of farmers in many mountainous
areas of Southeast Asia—an agenda driven by the belief that their age-old
shifting cultivation practices (known pejoratively as “slash and burn”) are
deforesting Asia. But a new look at how forests fare under shifting cultivation
(as opposed to under permanent agriculture) clearly demonstrates that efforts
Northern Indochina subtropical forests (IM0137)
Biome: Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests...
Size: 168,700 square miles...
Conservation Status: Vulnerable...
Northern Triangle temperate forests (IM0402)
Biome: Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests...
Size: 4,100 square miles...
Conservation Status: Relatively Stable/Intact...
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (including the protocols on trafficking and smuggling of persons)
The Convention entered into force on 29 September 2003...
Annex I:
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime...