PINLEBU, Myanmar (AP) — The hills of northern Myanmar’s Sagaing region were so legendarily thick with forests that in the days of kings, condemned criminals were ordered into the woods … ...

Between 1990 and 2015 Myanmar lost nearly 15 million hectares of forest and other wooded land. Approximately 527 mainly UN-led forest user groups manage around 40,000 hectares of in-country forest.

Lowland forest in south Myanmar. Photo by Axel Drainville via Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0) With the event held during the lead-up to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, ...

The people in this northern Myanmar forest have lost a way of life that goes back generations. But if they complain, they, too, face the threat of death. This forest is the source of several key ...

The Economic Value of Forest Ecosystem Services in Myanmar and Options for Sustainable Financing. Lucy Emerton and Yan Min Aung. International Management Group, September 2013.

The people in this northern Myanmar forest have lost a way of life that goes back generations. But if they complain, they, too, face the threat of death.

Myanmar's Tanintharyi Forest contains endangered leopards, Asian elephants, gold cats and adjoins two tiger sanctuaries. Thai conservationists, ...

In a remote forest of northern Myanmar, a 2-foot-long creature moved along the ground. Something about it caught the attention of visiting scientists — and for good reason. It turned out to be a ...

From 2010 to 2015, Myanmar had the third-largest forest loss in the world, equivalent to an annual loss of 546,000 hectares (2,100 square miles), according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture ...