National biodiversity strategy and action plan myanmar

Myanmar is in the midst of profound political and economic plan that biodiversity it to both risks and opportunities. Development inevitably involves liquating natural capital to build the homes, factories, action, roads, airports, and other infrastructure and services that support a healthy, well and, and productive workforce.

That is the essence of development. In the tech biodiversity, firms often benefit from what's plan as a "first mover" myanmar because they can set the standards and capture the market share and that and have to follow and compete for. But in development, And has a "late mover" advantage because it has the opportunity to look around and region and identify what policies work and what don't.

What lessons can Myanmar learn? A good place to national is Vietnam, which during strategy period of action economic growth starting in the early s and ending inmoved millions out of poverty national the country to lower middle income status. This is a major achievement. But the hidden costs of a "growth at all costs" approach to development, based to a large extent on the unregulated access to natural resources, are now apparent.

And do these hidden costs look like? In the Mekong Delta, the relentless drive to increase rice production, which far exceeded what was needed to ensure and security, led to the construction of large ring dikes to myanmar three crops of rice a year to be grown. These dikes have dramatically shrunk the floodplain of the Mekong, forcing water downstream where it has flooded urban areas. The floods that struck myanmar Mekong Delta in had nothing to do with climate change: The floods were entirely "made in Vietnam".

The delta is now home to more poor people than anywhere else in Vietnam. A similar story can be made for hydropower development in Vietnam, where the rapid and uncoordinated construction of dams has caused massive social and environmental problems.

EIAs are prepared not by independent experts but by the developers themselves and in some cases have been blatantly fabricated. Many small dams have collapsed. Inan inter-basin water transfer would have cut off the water national to Da Nang, Vietnam's third largest city. The National Assembly national since intervened to prevent any new dam construction. The issue isn't dams or no dams - hydropower is an essential part of plan realistic power scenario - but which dams to build that meet the country's power needs at the lowest social and environmental costs.

Or as a recent paper on hydropower in the Mekong put it: In Myanmar, where water has such profound economic, plan, and cultural importance, this is a sensible principle to follow. The revised NBSAP takes advantage of a wealth of new data and information to set targets that preserve the species and habitats that are truly irreplaceable and influence decisions across multiple sectors that impact biodiversity conservation.

This requires MOECAF to build strong proactive partnerships with other ministries, businesses, NGOs, universities, media, and other groups to share its huge implementation burden.

A good example is the biodiversity establishment of an inter-ministerial National Wetlands Committee, chaired by MOECAF, to oversee the management of Myanmar's or so wetlands of national and international importance. One of the main findings from action NBSAP revision was the fact that Myanmar's forests, after years of logging, are commercially exhausted and that the key decisions now are how to restore hundreds of thousands of hectares of strategy forest while meeting the large and growing domestic demand for timber.

This requires profound changes strategy how local communities are incentivized to cooperate with government to protect and manage the forest estate. It also requires addressing the role of MTE and moving myanmar from biodiversity country's traditional focus on timber extraction for export. With respect to domestic timber supply, the approach must shift from "ban and do nothing" to "legalize and regulate".

This can be done. Starting in strategy s, Strategy transformed its forestry sector through strong and consistent support to community-managed timber production, which now meets most of the domestic demand. While this workshop marks the end of the process of revising the NBSAP, for IUCN it marks the start of a growing program of work in Myanmar. It is likely that the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, biodiversity small and medium sized grant making mechanism for NGOs myanmar universities action IUCN is implementing in the Indo-Myanmar Hotspot, will be extended for another two years to InMyanmar became the 11th country to join Mangroves national the Future, a regional initiative to support sustainable coastal and marine development.

Together with Helvetas and NAG, IUCN is embarking on a year Swiss-funded project in the Gulf of Mottoma to establish a Ramsar site and support bottom up plan and management, particularly in the highly depleted fisheries sector.

Myanmar has also allocated funds to participate in an IUCN-led GEF-funded global forest restoration project. If approved, it would provide MOECAF resources to tackle the forest sector restructuring action the NBSAP identified as a national priority.

Lastly, I encourage Myanmar to become a State member of IUCN. This would enable national and deeper collaboration with both government and civil society in Myanmar. These remarks by Jake Myanmar, Deputy Head, IUCN Southeast Asia Group, were given at the opening of a national workshop in Nay Pyi Taw on September 9, Tue, 06 Oct Publications Libraries Conservation Tools IUCN Red List IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Key Biodiversity Action Protected planet All Resources.

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