Despite political restrictions, monks in Burma are a force to preserve nature...
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2006Myanmar
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2001Myanmar
One of the world’s "biodiversity hotspots" is under siege, as a growing number of business interests
seek to cash in the "peace" in northern Burma’s Kachin State... A project is in progress to build a number of roads in Kachin State in return for huge logging concessions.
While improving and expanding the infrastructure in Kachin State is much needed, the impact of this deal on
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2004Myanmar
International environmentalists have praised Burma for its commitment to conservation, yet in reality the greening of the Burmese dictatorship is just another tool for military coercion and advancement...
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2007Myanmar
Getting to the roots of Burma’s latest timber export trade...
They had been rooted in Burma’s soil for many years, some of them for more than a century. Then the heavy excavation machinery moved in—and the trees moved out, across the border to China. Some Burmese nature lovers say the trees will be homesick, but for Burmese and Chinese entrepreneurs they just represent money. Lots of money...
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