As Isolation Ends, Myanmar Faces New Ecological Risks

摘要

Bouncing over stone-filled potholes in a four-wheel drive SUV, Myint Aung passes a cluster of huts in a glade hacked from what was once a vibrant bamboo forest. Children in threadbare clothes wave hello. "All these settlements are illegal," says Myint Aung, a former forestry official who runs Friends of Wildlife, a homegrown nongovernmental organization (NGO) in the capital, Yangon.