The meetings involved protected area managers, scholars, and experts from within and outside the landscape and explored opportunities and constraints associated with research and conservation of primates in Asia. Information on the conservation status of primates, particularly gibbons, and associated monitoring trends was exchanged. Participants also shared information on habitat suitability assessments, the feeding habits of primates, and the need to develop a technical manual for transboundary collaboration for monitoring and information sharing in the landscape.
READ MORELocal people, district government representatives, and representatives from the private sector in Myanmar gathered together to discuss prospects for ecotourism in the Hkakabo Razi Landscape at a two-day stakeholder consultation workshop in November 2017.
READ MOREICIMOD and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) hosted the workshop. Khin Maung Yi, Permanent Secretary; Naing Zaw Htun, Deputy Director; and other staff members represented MONREC. Maung emphasized the importance of wildlife traffic control, resource use and management, collaborative research and monitoring for sharing resources and encouraging conservation across the landscape.
READ MOREA Declaration of Participating Institutions was signed by institutional representatives participating in the Workshop on Opportunities for Transboundary Collaboration for Conservation and Development along the Northern Section of the China-Myanmar Border, an event held in Kunming, China, from 12-14 December 2016.
READ MOREThe Framework is a guiding document that directs national and regional actions and builds upon existing bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the three BSL member countries. With the framework in place, the three countries can start the highly anticipated work on the ground.
READ MOREThe three-day consultation at Kaziranga National Park, a world heritage site located on the bank of mighty Brahmaputra River, kicked off the country-led ‘start-up phase’ of the BSLCDI.
READ MORE“Stability of northern Myanmar is important not just for people living there but also for the people of entire country and this meeting is very much in line with the government’s top priority,” said Dr Nyi Nyi Kyaw.
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