Myanmar: Communities Clash with Conservation Efforts in Northern Myanmar's Hkakaborazi Region

Apr 28, 2020 | Emily Fishbein, Mongabay
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In late 2018, following a series of demonstrations and confrontations, indigenous communities primarily from the Rawang ethnic minority expelled the Myanmar Forest Department and its international partner, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), from an area known as the Hkakaborazi Landscape, amid mounting dissent over a potential UNESCO World Heritage nomination.