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Dozens of brightly colored wooden fishing boats, some with fishermen in them, float in the Yangon River in Myanmar.
Myanmar Dalah, a fishing town and major terminal across the Yangon River in Myanmar in the Irrawaddy River Basin. © Michael Yamashita
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Our Work in Myanmar

We will help the country balance economic growth with the sustainable management of important natural assets. We’ll also help ensure that Myanmar’s people participate in decisions that impact the use of their natural resources—decisions that will determine the country’s development path over the next 50 years.

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Our Work in Myanmar

is home to 2,000 wild Asian elephants and 5,000 domesticated timber elephants that are symbols of national pride and the world’s best example of reduced-impact logging.

Initiative

Saving Myanmars Timber Elephants

Without strategic intervention, a significant percentage of these elephants will be killed for their ivory or sold into the tourism industry, where young elephants are subjected to well-documented, relentless abuse.

of Myanmar’s citizens live in rural areas and are dependent on forests for their basic needs.

Conservation Update

Conserving Myanmars Forests

Deforestation, driven by both legal and illegal logging, is having severe impacts on communities in Myanmar.