Will Burma's forests survive as the country opens its doors to the world?

Yale Environment 360: Allied soldiers and locals escaping the Japanese advance through northern Burma during World War II had to contend with dense jungles, scorching heat, leeches, insects, torrential rain, and 10,000-foot peaks dividing the country -- now known as Burma -- from India. Today, large swaths of that forbidding wilderness remain intact. The country's Northern Forest Complex, a 12,000-square-mile tract that runs along the border from India to China in Burma's Kachin State, is home to tigers, bears, elephants,...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/15/burma-forests-survive-opens-world
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