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The purpose of this Policy is to provide long term direction and guidance to: (a) Take and promote climate change action on adaptation and mitigation in Myanmar; (b) Integrate c...

The objectives of this Law, consisting of XII Chapters, are as follows: (a) to implement the Government policy for wildlife protection; (b) to implement the Government policy fo...

This journal report underlines the significant and ongoing decline of mangrove coverage, the importance to protect these ecosystems, and their roles for critically endangered sp...

Myanmar possesses great variation in topography and climatic conditions, and six major forest types can be found in the country, ranging from mangrove forests in the coastal reg...

Myanmar is home to globally significant mangrove forests, which support numerous endangered species, and are vital to local economies and society. However, these forests are un...

Myanmar is a country belonging mangrove and its ecosystem, a unique vegetative species with a high ecosystem services: much higher carbon sequestration than terrestrial forests ...

The draft law addresses the existing regulations pertaining to biodiversity and conservation of protected areas within the Union 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,...

There are 381,036 acres of mangrove forest in Rakhine State, and six protected areas that cover 87,219 acres are state-owned.

The Forest Department released 2020 report, consists various contents with up-to-date information about institutional structure, forest resources base, rules and law and etc.

The 2024 datasets are available monthly. These datasets show the 9 camps of total population by ethnicity and gender.

Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. This is Myanmar coun...

Internet access is improving in Myanmar, as more users go online via smart phones connected to newly available and fast 4G services, despite access being comparatively unafforda...

Most countries in Southeast Asia have not acceded to the international Refugee Convention. However, there is a lived practice of refugee protection in the region that is largely...

Following the coup, natural resources provide a source of profit for the military, whereby the forests of Myanmar are defined by their monetary value and have been part of the m...

Hundreds of innocent journalists, human rights defenders, activists, Facebook users, protesters, and politicians have been arrested, charged, and sentenced under Myanmar’s “fals...

Dramatic changes took place in Myanmar beginning in 2011 that began a transition in this country from half a century of military rule to a hybrid system of government with compe...

In the early hours of 1 February 2021, the Myanmar military launched a coup to depose the newly elected government. The military’s offline offensive was accompanied by a digital...

The Myanmar Sangha – the country’s community of Buddhist monks and nuns – has played a mostly marginal role in the anti-regime resistance following the military’s February 2021 ...

The policy brief, one of four briefs on the agrarian transition in the Mekong region, explores initiatives and pathways forward to recognise customary tenure arrangements and ri...