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Tyrants, Tycoons and Tigers: Yuzana Company Ravages Burmas Hugawng Valley

ຈັດພິມໂດຍ: Open Development Myanmar

A bitter land struggle is unfolding in northern Burma’s remote Hugawng Valley. Farmers that have been living for generations in the valley are defying one of the country’s most powerful tycoons as his company establishes massive mono-crop plantations in what happens to be the world’s largest tiger reserve. The Hukawng Valley Tiger Reserve in Kachin State was declared by the Myanmar Government in 2001 with the support of the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society. In 2004 the reserve’s designation was expanded to include the entire valley of 21,890 square kilometers (8,452 square miles), making it the largest tiger reserve in the world. Today a 200,000 acre mono-crop plantation project is making a mockery of the reserve’s protected status. Fleets of tractors, backhoes, and bulldozers rip up forests, raze bamboo groves and flatten existing small farms. Signboards that mark animal corridors and “no hunting zones” stand out starkly against a now barren landscape; they are all that is left of conservation efforts. Local villagers tending small scale farms in the valley since before it was declared a reserve have seen their crops destroyed and their lands confiscated. Conflicts between Yuzana Company employees, local authorities, and local residents have flared up and turned violent several times over the past few years, culminating with an attack on residents of Ban Kawk village in 2010. As of February 2010, 163 families had been forced into a relocation site where there is little water and few finished homes. The Kachin Development Networking Group stands firmly with these communities and therefore calls on Yuzana to stop their project implementation to avoid any further citizens’ rights abuses and calls on all Kachin communities and leaders to work together with Hugawng villagers in their brave struggle.

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ຫົວຂໍ້ Agriculture and fishing
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ຜູ້ຂຽນ (ອົງການຈັດຕັ້ງ) KDNG
ຜູ້ຂຽນຮ່ວມ (ອົງການຈັດຕັ້ງ) Kachin Development Networking Group
ປີຈັດພິມ 2010
ຄຳສັບຫຼັກ Forest Destruction,Agribusiness,Yuzana,Private Sector
ວັນທີອັບໂຫຼດ ມິຖຸນາ 13, 2018, 14:35 (UTC)
ວັນທີດັດແປງ ເມສາ 11, 2021, 16:30 (UTC)