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Narissa Bax PhD is a marine biologist at the University of Tasmania, where she is a researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. She is a member of the Centre for Marine Socioecology.

Posted inOpinion

Myanmar’s stunning biodiversity at risk after coup

by Narissa Bax and SiuSue Mark February 22, 2021February 22, 2021

The military takeover in Myanmar this month is a serious setback for democratic reform. But the coup also threatens to damage permanently the Southeast Asian nation’s precious environment, and harm the people who rely on it. Myanmar is renowned as a biodiversity hotspot, and supports more than 230 globally threatened species. But the nation’s natural […]

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