Protecting Biodiversity by Supporting People

Five people wearing helmets and orange vests in cave, waist-height in water, smiling, waving at camera. — Training on the cave system.

© Dr. Joerg Dreybrodt

Mainstreaming Karst Biodiversity Conservation into Policies, Plans and Business Practices in the Ayeyarwady Basin, Myanmar

Grantee Name: Fauna & Flora International

Hotspot: Indo-Burma
Location: Myanmar
Amount: $189,979
Dates: Mar 2017 – Oct 2019
Keywords: Biodiversity mainstreaming, Extractive industries, Habitat conservation and management, Policy/law, Private sector, Tourism

Support inclusion of specific provisions for the conservation of limestone biodiversity into EIA guidelines for the mining sector. Develop environmental best practices for limestone quarries, promote their adoption by the Mining Department and cement companies. Promote incorporation of limestone karst KBAs into development plans. Demonstrate best practice show cave management, and share with the Tourism Department and show cave operators.

Strategic Direction : 6 Engage key actors in mainstreaming biodiversity, communities and livelihoods into development planning in the priority corridors

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Mainstreaming Karst Biodiversity Conservation into Policies, Plans and Business Practices in the Ayeyarwady Basin, Myanmar

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