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Threatened ecosystems of Myanmar:

Myanmar's Red List of Ecosystems is a tool to understand our threats and plan for conservation and sustainable management. Forests constitute the dominant ecosystems in Myanmar, and we are blessed with high forest cover (42.92%) and diversity, with 36 of our 64 ecosystems identified as forest and mangrove. These forests and biodiversity underpin a range of ecosystem services which are central to Myanmar’s sustainable development, supporting human and resource needs, and contributing to a more stable climate. The loss of forests and our biodiversity leads to degradation and deterioration of ecosystem services and threatens Myanmar’s irreplaceable ecological heritage. We often discuss ecosystem services but this study documents Myanmar’s terrestrial ecosystem typology and spatial distribution for the first time. This is one of the first ecosystem red lists developed within ASEAN and this will inform our implementation for decades to come to inform legislation, land-use planning, protected area expansion, monitoring and reporting, and ecosystem management. To sustain our forests and our biodiversity we need to sustainably manage all of these incredible ecosystems.

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Data Resource Preview - Threatened ecosystems of Myanmar: An IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Assessment. Version 1

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Field Value
Document type Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Language of document
  • English
Short title (alternative/varying form of title) An IUCN Red List of ecosystems assessment
Topics
  • Ecosystems
  • Environmental impact assessments
  • Forests and forestry
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Myanmar
Copyright Yes
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This document is an open access publication licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non- commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

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Author (corporate) Wildlife Conservation Society
Co-author (individual) Nicholas J. Murray, David A. Keith, Robert Tizard, Adam Duncan, Nyan Hlaing , Win Thuya Htut, Aung Htat Oo, Kyaw Zay Ya and Hedley Grantham
ISBN number 978-0-9903852-5-7
Publisher Wildlife Conservation Society
Publication date 2020
Pagination 395
General note

Please refer to the website for any recent updates: https://www.myanmar-ecosystems.org For this report, please refer to this website: https://library.wcs.org/en-us/Scientific-Research/Research-Publications/Publications-Library/ctl/view/mid/40093/pubid/DMX3745700000.aspx

Keywords Myanmar,IUCN Red List,ecosystems assessment
Date uploaded September 17, 2024, 14:02 (UTC)
Date modified September 18, 2024, 06:26 (UTC)