Myanmar: Mangrove Planters Take Fight to Naypyidaw

Jun 4, 2014 | Democratic Voice of Burma
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Twenty-three farmers from Dedaye, Irrawaddy Division have travelled to the capital Naypyidaw, with the hopes of meeting President Thein Sein.

The farmers object to their regional government’s plan to destroy a mangrove forest near Kyondat village, which they have painstakingly replanted.

Extensions to farmland have led to the destruction of hundreds of hectares of mangrove forest in the region. In response, the farmers successfully restored a 700-acre tract of forest, which is again under threat.