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Sign up nowIllegal charcoal trade threatens Myanmar’s remaining mangroves
Mangroves from Myanmar are illegally harvested and converted into charcoal that is sent to Thailand before it’s sold to China, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia by sea.
The illegal charcoal trade persists due to a lack of law enforcement and oversight in Myanmar and Thailand.
Many Burmese labor workers, charcoal kiln owners and traders are indebted to the charcoal warehouses that they ultimately supply in Thailand, which guarantees a steady supply of charcoal into Thailand.
Source: news.mongabay.com/2019/04/illegal-charcoal-trade-threatens-myanmars-remaining-mangroves/
#Myanmar #Thailand #China #SouthKorea #Japan #Malaysia #Indonesia #mangroves #charcoal
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Today is the UN's International Mother Earth Day, a chance to take a moment and marvel at the complex wonder that is our big blue marble!
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#EarthDay #UN United Nations
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Tiger poaching remains a threat to the iconic predators
A few days ago a wild Bengal tiger was found dead in the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans in India. The striped predator had a wire strapped around its midriff, indicating it had fallen victim to a poacher’s snare.
Round about the same time a Vietnamese man was arrested by border guards while trying to smuggle a tiger’s pelt and bones into China from Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh.
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The two incidents happened thousands of kilometers apart and might seem to have nothing in common. Yet they point to the same fact: wild tigers continue to face existential threats throughout their ranges in Asia ...
Source: www.sustainability-times.com/environmental-protection/tiger-poaching-remains-a-threat-to-the-icon...
#Asia #tigers #poaching #India #China #Vietnam
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