Karen Environmental Leader Explains the Salween Peace Park and Wild-life Conservation Zone has the lowest incidence of wildfire incidents causing annual smog and toxic on both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border karennews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from karennews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On March 29, ethnic environmental protection organizations from the Myanmar side, along with Thai civil environmental groups, gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to tackle the surge in wildfire incidents and the accompanying air pollution, caused by smoke from burning fires in the Salween River areas along the Thailand-Myanmar border.
Community land for most Indigenous Karen people in Myanmar is not subject to ownership it is rather a source of their faith, a divine creator of which the Karen are solely the custodians. Despite this belief, Karen communities living in the southern Kayin state (or Kawthoolei, as Karen nationalists call it) have taken part […]
What works better: protected areas managed by the state, or areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and local communities? More than 50 different researchers came together to try to settle this debate. But their review of the scientific literature, published recently in Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources, concluded with what some might find to be […]