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    Category: Environment

    Environment Lead Story News

    Carbon prices too low to protect Southeast Asian forests from rubber expansion

    The price of carbon credits must rise drastically if they are to help protect Southeast Asia’s tropical forests against rubber plantation expansion, according to researchers.

    Environment Lead Story News

    Thailand, Burma and Laos in tri-nation haze battle plan

    Thailand will cooperate with Burma and Laos in a campaign against forest fires in Thailand’s north later this month as the three countries brace for the approaching summer haze.

    Energy Environment Lead Story News

    Debate over coal-fired power plant in Karen State heats up

    Locals and civil society organisations in Karen State are pushing back against plans for a coal-fired power plant in Hpa-an Township, where the project still has the blessing of the state’s leading official.

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    Chin climate change Environment Farmers Lead Story News

    The silent climate burn in Chin State

    Chin State has suffered particularly erratic rainfall, landslides and floods. But new adaptation programs are aiming to prepare farming communities for future changes in the climate and improve food security.

    Environment Lead Story News

    Mission to restore mangroves in Irrawaddy Delta

    Once perfected in Burma, the technology could help other large-scale restoration projects, said WIF’s Lyngdoh.

    Environment Farmers Lead Story News

    Factory farming in Asia poses environmental, forced-labour risks: report

    The rapid growth of factory farming in Asia for livestock and seafood poses enormous environmental and forced labour risks, in addition to threats to public safety and health, according to a report by an investor network.

    Environment Lead Story News

    Asia faces disaster from soaring temps if climate change unchecked

    Climate change will bring soaring temperatures, more intense storms, erratic rainfall, plummeting crop yields and a collapse of coral reefs to the Asia-Pacific unless countries fully implement their commitments under the Paris climate pact, scientists say, calling the challenges “unprecedented.”

    Environment Lead Story Natural resources News

    Burmese president awaits key report on Myitsone

    A second report covering the Myitsone dam project on the Irrawaddy River will soon be submitted to the Burmese president for his consideration.

    Arakan Environment Lead Story News

    The struggle to save Arakan’s mangroves

    Conservationist Kyaw Win said many locals had now “lost their enthusiasm” for protecting the mangroves because of a lack of government support.

    Environment Foreign Affairs Lead Story News

    China’s Silk Road push in Thailand may founder on Mekong row

    China’s plan to blast open more of the Mekong River for bigger cargo ships could founder on a remote outcrop of half-submerged rocks that Thai protesters have vowed to protect against Beijing’s economic expansion in Southeast Asia.

    Chin Environment Lead Story News

    Efforts to change Chin farming habits seek to slow harmful deforestation

    Can Chin State’s farmers move away from shifting cultivation and embrace sedentary agriculture in time to save the western region’s forests?

    Electricity Environment Lead Story News

    Power plant fuelled by rubbish comes online in Rangoon

    Rangoon’s first power plant to turn waste into energy was christened in the commercial capital on Friday.

    Environment Feature Features Features (OLD) Lead Story News Rangoon

    Rangoon trash alley gets a makeover

    There’s no hiding Rangoon’s trash problem. The streets of Burma’s biggest city are often the scene of overflowing garbage, but one organisation is changing that.

    Environment flora and fauna Lead Story News

    Wild Thai tiger cub footage sparks hope for endangered species

    Conservationists hail the discovery of a new breeding population of tigers in Thailand as a “miraculous” victory for a sub-species nearly wiped out by poaching.

    Environment Lead Story News Pegu Division

    Reservoir leakage rumours spark fears in Pyay

    “We went to the reservoir and saw soil sliding down. Water was leaking under the wall,” said local villager.

    Environment Lead Story News Travel & Tourism

    Burmese govt pledges conservation efforts at Inle Lake

    The iconic lake is suffering from degradation, mostly caused by deforestation and the constant daily pounding of thousands of visitors.

    Environment Lead Story News

    Govt, conservationists unveil elephant protection plan

    A strategy to protect Burma’s wild and captive elephants well into the next century has been released by the government and international NGO’s.

    Environment Ethnic issues Human Rights Land Lead Story News

    Tennasserim villagers stand against foreign palm oil project

    Tennasserim villagers launched the ‘Green Desert’ report on Thursday, calling for a Malaysian-backed palm oil project to be immediately suspended.

    Environment Lead Story News

    Tenasserim villagers take Heinda mine battle to Supreme Court

    Villagers from Tenasserim Division have taken their battle against a Thai-owned mine all the way to the Supreme Court.

    Electricity Energy Environment Lead Story Natural resources News

    Hundreds of CSOs demand safe, sustainable energy plan

    A coalition of 422 civil society and environmental groups are calling on the government to halt all proposed coal and large-scale hydropower projects, citing a raft of negative impacts on vulnerable local communities.

    Crime Environment flora and fauna Lead Story News

    Village leader among 7 nabbed for elephant poaching

    A group of alleged elephant poachers including a local village official were detained in Rangoon Division’s Taikkyi township in connection with the recent killing of an elephant.

    Chin Environment Land Lead Story Natural resources News Uncategorized

    Kuki villagers call for halt to gold mining

    Ethnic villagers in Sagaing Division say that gold mining along the fourth largest river in Burma is ruining farmland and causing tension in the community

    Environment Lead Story News

    Mekong nations warned: crack down on illegal wildlife trade

    Conservationists called on the Mekong nations to follow in Vietnam’s footsteps, after Hanoi destroyed tonnes of illegal ivory over the weekend.

    Environment Lead Story Natural Disasters News

    Trump win puts China in climate leadership role

    With a climate-change denier soon to move into the White House, China is now in a position to become the global leader on the issue.

    Environment Lead Story Natural resources News

    Production slowing fast at Wa State tin mine

    Output from a tin mine in Wa State is falling sharply and deposits could be depleted in “two to three years”, said senior mine officials.

    Conflict Environment Lead Story News

    Karen clashes linked to controversial dam project, say activists

    Karen Rivers Watch says recent fighting for control of a road to the site of the controversial Hatgyi hydropower dam is putting a dangerous strain on the ceasefire in Karen State.

    Electricity Environment Lead Story News

    Salween documentary warns of mass flooding

    A series of small islands on the Salween River is at risk of ‘going under’ if construction of a hydro-power dam goes ahead as planned, says a local NGO.

    Development Electricity Energy Environment Lead Story News

    Interview: ‘There are other options’ besides mega-dams

    Joern Kristensen, the director of the Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development, speaks to DVB about Burma’s options for meeting its energy needs.

    Electricity Energy Environment Lead Story News

    Chinese newspaper calls Burma hydro dam opposition ‘extreme’

    Opposition to Chinese-invested hydropower schemes in Burma is being orchestrated by “extreme” groups, according to an influential Chinese newspaper.

    Arakan Business Economy Environment Lead Story News

    Arakan petition calls for local control of resources

    An Arakanese civil society group says that 300,000 people in Arakan State have signed a petition calling for greater control over resource extraction in the impoverished region.

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