Indigenous groups in Myanmar lash out at ‘restrictive’ conservation policies

Mongabay
Apr 27, 2020, 11:26 am192 pts
PUTA-O, Myanmar — In late 2018, following a series of demonstrations and confrontations, indigenous communities primarily from the Rawang ethnic minority expelled the Myanmar Forest Department and its international partner, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), from an area known as the Hkakaborazi…

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