Enabling ecosystems to deliver sustainable development goals at Lake Indawgyi
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £329,590
WHERE Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia
Summary
The project will protect forest and wetland biodiversity including habitat for >20,000 birds and numerous threatened species, such as vultures, cranes, turtles, hog deer, pangolins, bears, langurs, gibbons and others, in the globally important Indawgyi Lake Biosphere Reserve. It takes an ecosystems approach at watershed scale, building capacity for collaborative conservation management and improving natural resource management and local livelihoods, benefitting 10,000 people. The project is particularly innovative in engaging the emerging private sector in Myanmar to support sustainable practices. Participatory management systems, sustainable natural resource use and improved sanitation bring biodiversity benefits to the Indawgyi Lake Biosphere Reserve and livelihoods and health benefits to more than 10,000 residents.
Inn Chit Thu, Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division, Forest Department, Shan Maw Myae, Indawgyi Environment and Development Association, Mohnyin Natural Greening and Development Association, Indawgyi Natural Farming Association
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