Myanmar Forest Officials Receive U.S. Prize

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Myanmar Forest Officials Receive U.S. Prize for Environmental and Wildlife

Conservation

 

August 01, 2005 ¡X By Associated Press

YANGON, Myanmar ¡X A U.S. environmental group has honored two Myanmar forest

officials for their outstanding efforts to protect the environment and wildlife,

state-run media reported Saturday.

 

The Alexander Abraham Foundation gave the Environmental and Wildlife

Conservation awards to retired director Saw Han and director Khin Maung Zaw of

the forestry department, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper said.

 

Dr. Alan Rabinowitz of the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society

presented the awards at a ceremony in Yangon this week, the paper said.

 

Myanmar's forest department works closely with international wildlife

conservation groups such as the Wildlife Conservation Society and U.S.-based

Smithsonian National Zoological park.

 

Environmental groups have said that Myanmar is suffering the fastest

deforestation in Southeast Asia. Myanmar's military government has acknowledged

that illegal logging goes on in its forests but denies claims by some

environmental groups that they are in danger of disappearing due to extensive

tree cutting.

 

Source: Associated Press