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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Thailand

    Swidden farming is the main agent of conversion of primary forests to secondary forests in the highlands of mainland Southeast Asia, but there is a deterioration and decline of the practice with land use intensification. The population growth in northern Thailand has forced lowland farmers practising permanent wet rice cultivation to turn to short rotation swidden in the foot hill zone. Highland swidden agriculturists are adopting more intensive forms of swidden or are shifting to permanent farming.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    Much of mainland Southeast Asia's primary forest has been converted into secondary vegetation types in the past several decades. In the Lower Mekong Subregion, nearly 100 million ha of forest were significantly altered or removed, with depletion in terms of areal percent most severe in Thailand and Vietnam. Timber extraction and conversion of forestland to agriculture are the two principal causes of forest degradation in the region. Logged sites are often later occupied by migrant homesteaders. The current regional focus of logging has shifted to Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    France, Israel, Germany, Denmark, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, China, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Nepal, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy, Netherlands, India, Mexico, Asia

    A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.

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