News Headline
New ‘Mangrove Parks’ Can Help Conserve Burma’s Threatened Forests
Source
The Irrawaddy
Publication Date
2013-12-20
Mangroves are disappearing worldwide. Burma, a country with some of the highest mangrove diversity, is no exception. This country once possessed the largest mangrove forests of the region, mostly in the Irrawaddy Delta, but as pointed out by The Irrawaddy on Dec. 4, the Delta’s mangrove forests shrank by 64.2 percent in 33-year period, with much of the area