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All KESAN and its network reports
Khoe Kay: Biodiversity in Peril, July 2008
 This report documents the rich biodiversity found in Khoe Kay, a bend in the Salween River and exposes the severe threats faced by this stretch of the Salween, both from large dams and ongoing militarization. The report finds Khoe Kay to be studded with both plant and animal diversity, identifying 194 plant species and 200 animals. Forty two of these species are considered endangered and can be found in IUCN’s red list, the CITES appendices, or both; thus showing the urgency in protecting and promoting conservation in this area. (Download)
Diversity Degraded: Vulnerability of Culture and Natural
diversity in Northern Karen State, Burma, December 2005
 This report examines the effects of the longstanding civil war on Karen communities’ cultural and natural environment with specific focus on the diversity of cultivated and collected plant species. The case study provides a general overview of communities with a detailed look at local knowledge-based farming systems. The report also outlines the importance of non-timber forest
products (NTFP) in food security and in women’s traditional work.
This report is available in both Karen and English language. (Download English Vision) (Download Karen Vision)
Destruction and Degradation of the Burmese Frontier Forests: Listening to the People's Voices
 Representatives of two ethnic groups, from Kachin and Karen State undertook the first research to uncover the social impacts of deforestation and to relate them to environmental degradation. This report explain what happens at this moment in the frontier forests of Burma has its implications not only on the terrain of nature conservation, but also on the terrain of the social and economic development of local communities. With the logging and the deforestation a whole new economic and social reality develops, in which most people, having lost their traditional livelihood, are turned into casual labourers and a cheap labour force for local potentates and entrepreneurs. The loss of community forests is another outcome of the global dispossession that opens up even marginal territories to the dictates of the market economy. With this dispossession not only the environment, but also traditional cultures and social organizations disappear. What this report, especially the contribution of KESAN, makes clear, is the positive role that the traditional cultures and traditional environmental policies can play in the formulation and implementation of sustainable forestry policies in Burma. (Download) |
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