Residents search for crab and prawns in the Kanyin Chaung community forest in Tanintharyi Region's Thayetchaung Township. (Frontier)
Residents search for crab and prawns in the Kanyin Chaung community forest in Tanintharyi Region's Thayetchaung Township. (Frontier)

The fate of our forests is in the balance

Any progress made in land rights and environmental conservation over the past decade is in peril under the rule of a military with a long history of natural resource plunder.

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