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Feb 19, 2019 · IUCN units: On January15-18, 2019, more than 30 of Myanmar’s top mammal experts met in Nay Pyi Taw to continue the development of a National Red List of Threatened Species.
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To study the large mammals, Lwin and his colleagues trekked for weeks at a time to position cameras in the remote forests and mountain slopes of two protected areas that hug the India and China borders: Hkakaborazi National Park and Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary. They also placed cameras in a large area to the south that the Myanmar Forest Departm...
By the end of their survey, the research team had amassed a total of nearly 10,000 usable photographs, half of which were of large mammals. The cameras detected 31 terrestrial large mammal species and two tree-dwelling species: a black giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor) and a flying squirrel (Biswamoyopterus sp.), which the researchers did not identif...
The researchers also found that species tend to live in particular altitudinal ranges. For example, camera traps at lower elevations picked up sambar deer (Rusa unicolor), small-toothed ferret-badgers (Melogale moschata) and sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), but these species were absent from higher ground. Similarly, two large mammals were only fou...
The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. It divides species into nine categories: Not Evaluated, Data Deficient, Least Concern, Near Threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critically Endangered, Extinct in the Wild and Extinct .
Jun 25, 2021 · Mongabay Series: Forest Trackers. Deforestation of endangered wildlife habitat continues to surge in southern Myanmar. by Morgan Erickson-Davis on 25 June 2021. The Tanintharyi region of Myanmar is home to unique and endangered species, but its forests are being cleared.
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Mar 6, 2019 · YANGON — Myanmar is home to 331 endangered species, according to the latest research by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), including birds, orangutans, elephants, deer, freshwater turtles, pangolins and tigers.
Nov 29, 2018 · A group including researchers, university professors and bird guides gathered around computers for five days to locate threatened and endangered bird species of Myanmar on a map.
A recent study, involving Wildlife Conservation Society, identified 331 endangered species in Myanmar, with illegal trade, poaching and habitat loss as significant problems that need to be addressed.
