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Environmental issues in Myanmar.

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I chose to contribute to the creation of the article "Environmental issues in Myanmar." Since there is no page dedicated to the topi comprehensively discusses major environmental issues withing Myanmar. The main concern for environment, is mainly based on the it emergence from self isolation and how to implement policies that are not only effective, in addition to, managable. The current issues are the following an accelerated loss in biodiversity, and increase of pollution

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  • Climate Change
  • Ecological Destructions

Climate Change

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Myanmar is a country in recent years has emerged from self-isolation to participate within the global market. [1]. As a result, Myanmar is still country that is heavily dependent on its agrarian sector as it employs the vast majority of the working population, and contributes to the large geographic area that is predominately filled with rice farms. Myanmar has a natural abundances of natural resource, and under the pretense of the global market will have huge consequence due to consumer consumption and industrialization of the growing markets in oil and minerals. Under the rulership of then President Thein Sein, he noted ththe natural resources such is gas will attract many capitlist to invest thier time in, and it is neccessary to provide " second waves of reforms", as foreign investments will bring earth-shaking changes to Myanmar's extractive industries(i.e natural gas and oil. This expansion will cause the indefinitive deforestation, extration of mines,in addtion to, land resources and forest resources in the near future..[2].

Ecological Destruction

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The Southeast region is in a precarious situation, as climates change can disrupt effect of daily life. The ADB reports within the area majority of individual are situated in"...extensive, heavily populated coastlines; large agricultural sectors and large sections of the population living $1 a day.[3]”. Myanmar is highly susceptible to climate change as there has been an increase of flooding and cyclones. People and the environment living within this region in greater danger compared to other in the rest of the word [4]. Additionally, the repercussion from Global Warming has resulted in the shift of Myanmar's monsoon pattern since 1977, creating dryer temperature and to cultivate[5]. Both the UN and the Asian development Bank had concluded that the recent progression of moving capital from foreign investors are going to affect the biodiversity through the extraction of natural material from the mines and timbers from the forest. Therefore, any progress and movement that regulates to the expansion of Myanmar's GDP should also rise to the maintain and ensure environmental policies, as it will improve the condition of growth. The focus has most been attentive towards the growing pollution attributed by the deforestation that has been taken place reccently[6].

  • Biodiversity and Deforestation

Myanmar has one of the largest forest covers in mainland Southeast Asia, which accounts for 47% of the land is categorized as a forest. Where the area has the minimum threshold of the canopy that covers more than 10% of untouched reserves[7] The decline of biodiversity is linked to the massive deforestation. With the gradual introduction of public speech, many individual are now aware of the precarious state of their unique biodiversity. However, even with the recent minor improvements, there has been a constant patterns deforestation Myanmar is described as one of the eight hottest biodiversity hot spots[8]

The pattern of deforestation has mainly been impacted by selective logging, as rubber is the most industrialized group in Myanmar. The total acreage has increased from to 1.14 million acres in 2009-10 and expected to reach 1.23 million in 2010-11. The specific development has mostly centered in Southern Burma.[9]Amejan 02 (talk) 02:28, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Amejan 02 (talk) 02:15, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/177586/ewp-467.pdf
  2. ^ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901112001645
  3. ^ ADB, The Economics of Climate Change in South East Asia: A Regional Review , ADB, April 2009
  4. ^ ibid
  5. ^ Sven Harmeling,Germanwatch: Global Climate Risk Index, http://www.germanwatch.org/klima/cri2010.pdf, 2010.
  6. ^ http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/myanmar-rises-challenge-environmental-conservation
  7. ^ http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/al576E/al576E.pdf
  8. ^ Myers et al., 2000 N. Myers, R.A. Mittermeier, C.G. Mittermeier, G.A.B. da Fonseca, J. Kent Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities Nature, 403 (2000), pp. 853–858
  9. ^ http://www.bewg.org/pubs/finish/4/34