Myanmar: Myanmar Communities Decry Disempowerment as Forest Guardians Since 2021 Coup

Nov 17, 2022 | Carolyn Cowan, Mongabay
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Strides have been made in forest protection over the past decade, but violent conflict, shrinking civic space and “rampant” natural resource extraction in the wake of the February 2021 military coup have severely hampered community-level efforts to safeguard the country’s ecosystems from development, according to representatives of Myanmar’s Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) participating in a recent online discussion.