Myanmar: Award-Winning, Indigenous Peace Park Dragged into Fierce Conflict in Myanmar

May 15, 2023 | Carolyn Cowan, Mongabay
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On 27 March 2021, the natural sounds of the teak and bamboo forests of eastern Myanmar — calling birds, croaking frogs and barking deer — were drowned out by a deluge of falling bombs. Over the following week, the bombs continued to fall on forests and villages, damaging schools, hospitals and farmland, in the heart of Salween Peace Park, an award-winning community-led initiative in Karen State.