UDTR Global Rights of Nature Radar

Political transition and emergent forest‐conservation issues in Myanmar

Identification

Public canonical key

doi:10.1111/cobi.13021

Authors

Graham W. Prescott · William J. Sutherland · Daniel Aguirre · Matthew Baird · Vicky Bowman · Jake Brunner · Grant M. Connette · Martin Cosier · David O. Dapice · Jose Don T. De Alban · Alex N. Diment · Julia Fogerite · Jefferson Fox · Win Hlaing · Saw Htun · Jack Hurd · Katherine LaJeunesse Connette · Felicia P. S. Lasmana · Cheng Ling Lim · Antony J. Lynam · Aye Chan Maung · Benjamin McCarron · John F. McCarthy · William Joseph McShea · Frank Momberg · Myat Su Mon · Than Myint · Rob Oberndorf · Thaung Naing Oo · Jacob Phelps · Madhu Rao · Dietrich Schmidt‐Vogt · Hugh Speechly · Oliver Springate‐Baginski · Robert Steinmetz · Kirk Talbott · Maung Maung Than · Tint Lwin Thaung · Salai Cung Lian Thawng · Kyaw Min Thein · Shwe Thein · Robert Tizard · Tony Whitten · Guy Williams · Trevor Wilson · Kevin Woods · Alan D. Ziegler · Michal Zrust · Edward Layman Webb

Reported year

2017

Reported language

en

Source type

review

First detected

2026-11-09T19:17:40.274294+00:00

Last metadata observation

2026-11-09T19:17:40.274294+00:00

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Institutions reported by the source

Australian National University · East–West Center · Environmental Law Institute · Fauna and Flora International · Harvard University · International Union for Conservation of Nature (United Kingdom) · Lancaster University · Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation · National University of Singapore · National Zoological Park · Norwich Research Park · Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute · The Nature Conservancy · University of California, Berkeley · University of Cambridge · University of East Anglia · University of Freiburg · Vermont Law and Graduate School · Wildlife Conservation Society

Documentary abstract — original language

Political and economic transitions have had substantial impacts on forest conservation. Where transitions are underway or anticipated, historical precedent and methods for systematically assessing future trends should be used to anticipate likely threats to forest conservation and design appropriate and prescient policy measures to counteract them. Myanmar is transitioning from an authoritarian, centralized state with a highly regulated economy to a more decentralized and economically liberal democracy and is working to end a long-running civil war. With these transitions in mind, we used a horizon-scanning approach to assess the 40 emerging issues most affecting Myanmar's forests, including internal conflict, land-tenure insecurity, large-scale agricultural development, demise of state timber enterprises, shortfalls in government revenue and capacity, and opening of new deforestation frontiers with new roads, mines, and hydroelectric dams. Averting these threats will require, for example, overhauling governance models, building capacity, improving infrastructure- and energy-project planning, and reforming land-tenure and environmental-protection laws. Although challenges to conservation in Myanmar are daunting, the political transition offers an opportunity for conservationists and researchers to help shape a future that enhances Myanmar's social, economic, and environmental potential while learning and applying lessons from other countries. Our approach and results are relevant to other countries undergoing similar transitions.

Identifiers

OPENALEX

W2761741762

DOI

10.1111/cobi.13021

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Scholarship

Source-reported types

review

Natural entities mentioned

Forest

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Sources

OpenAlex · Record 1 · Record 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13021
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W2761741762

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