AR-News: (SA) Myanmar creates world's largest tiger reserve

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

March 29 2004 at 08:33AM
 

Yangon - Myanmar has created the world's largest tiger reserve in an effort 
to protect the habitat of its remaining 250 big cats and boost their dwindling 
population, according to a report on Monday.

The military-run government has set aside 21?890km? of tiger habitat in 
Hukuang Valley in northernmost Kachin state under a directive signed in early March 
by forestry minister Brigadier General Thein Aung, the Myanmar Times reported.

The semi-official weekly said the protection after a major survey in 1999 by 
the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), an American non-governmental 
organisation which identified the valley as an area of rich biodiversity.






full story:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1080541983676B255&set_id=1
 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/attachments/20040329/cf1fc10f/attachment.html