Extinction stalks Myanmar's forests
Bago, Myanmar (AFP) May 07, 2014 - Ashen earth strewn with the limbs of once-mighty trees is all that is left of the fearsome forest in central Myanmar that Wa Tote remembers from her youth. "We would only dare enter in a big group. The forest was deep and had many wild animals. Now we cannot even find a tree's shadow to shelter under when we are tired," the 72-year-old told AFP. At one point tigers were so common in the ... more
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