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Some of the villagers with their land title certificates.

Not waiting for the government, Myanmar’s Karen people register their own lands

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Feb 2024

Skywalker gibbons confirmed in Myanmar for the first time

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2024

Activists urge Australia to end lucrative links to Myanmar junta’s mines

Alex Shaw 22 Feb 2024
Seized teak logs in Myanmar, 2020. Image courtesy of Environmental Investigation Agency.

Is Jeff Bezos’s $500 million yacht made with ‘blood timber’ from Myanmar? (commentary)

Paul Woolwich 22 Jun 2023

Myanmar’s troubled forestry sector seeks global endorsement after coup

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2021

Myanmar’s new langur species is ‘very beautiful,’ but critically endangered

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Nov 2020

Journalist murdered while investigating illegal logging in Myanmar

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2016

Lumber Liquidators pays $13.2M to end illegal logging probe

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2015

Conservation in Myanmar: a cause for optimism?

Hannah Watson 24 Apr 2015

Growing need for deforestation-free rubber as tire demand destroys native forests

Rhett A. Butler 18 Apr 2015

155 Chinese nationals arrested for illegal logging in Myanmar

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

‘Better late than never’: Myanmar bans timber exports to save remaining forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Apr 2014

New relative of the ‘penis snake’ discovered in Myanmar

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2014

Just how bad is the logging crisis in Myanmar? 72 percent of exports illegal

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2014

Plantations used as cover for destruction of old-growth forests in Myanmar

Jeremy Hance 2 Dec 2013

Mangrove ecosystems being obliterated in Myanmar

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2013

Myanmar faces new conservation challenges as it opens up to the world

Claire Salisbury 4 Oct 2013

Mekong region has lost a third of its forests in 30 years, may lose another third by 2030

Mongabay.com 3 May 2013

The river of plenty: uncovering the secrets of the amazing Mekong

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2013

‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2012

Burma warns of deforestation crisis

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2012

Burma: slowly opening its doors

Hope Loudon 21 Aug 2012

First pictures of newly discovered monkey in China published

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2012

Blue tarantula, walking cactus, and a worm from Hell: the top 10 new species of 2011

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2012

New ‘bony-tongue’ fish discovered in Myanmar

Mongabay.com 18 May 2012

New population of Myanmar snub-nosed monkey discovered in China

Jeremy Hance 16 May 2012

NGO: lifting sanctions on Myanmar must lead to forestry reform

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2012

Hail Mary effort aims to save the world’s most endangered turtles

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2012

UN: wild teak forests declining

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2012

Forgotten species: the wild jungle cattle called banteng

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2012

Camera traps snap first ever photo of Myanmar snub-nosed monkey

Jeremy Hance 10 Jan 2012

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