By: Morgan Erickson-Davis

Date: August 3rd 2016

Source: Mongabay

After years of rising deforestation rates, Myanmar is temporarily banning logging activity until March 2017.

• Myanmar lost 5 percent of its tree cover from 2001 through 2014, with rates scaling upward over that time.

By: Sanitsuda Ekachai

Date: February 10th 2016

Source: Bangkok Post

Forested landscapes worldwide are increasingly integrated in global processes of trade, market development, resource exploitation and climate change. Site-based or community level approaches can no longer cope with these issues which exceed the local sphere of influence. Although landscapes are usually considered to be appropriate levels to negotiate land use options, they are rarely recognised as units of political- administrative decision making, hence do not have any formal place in decentralised structures of states.