Category: Myanmar

Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp Elephant Unemployment Crisis Between 2002 and 2014, the forest cover in Myanmar declined by more than 1.5 million ha. This degraded forest is mainly due to the logging industry.  In 2013, a law was enacted by the Myanmar government to limit the export of raw timber.  This caused the elephant…
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Arriving in Myanmar, or Burma, I didn’t have any expectations of what the country would be like. Many people asked me if I felt safe travelling in Myanmar due to the civil unrest occurring.   The answer is that Myanmar is one of the most amazing places I have every visited and I felt very safe.…
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