Sand and gravel in Myanmar are considered natural resources owned by the state. Under Article 37 of Myanmar's 2008 constitution, the Union is the ultimate …
But the resource is finite, and as construction booms in Myanmar and across Asia, the industry has fuelled the illegal mining of sand — with harsh implications for Myanmar's environment and burgeoning tourism industry. Myanmar was ruled by a …
From a boat on the Salween River in southeastern Myanmar, Than Zaw Oo pointed to a brown stretch of water he said was once full of lush paddy fields.
Sand mining on Myanmar's Ayeyarwady River is destroying livelihoods, placing environmental stress on the nation's rice bowl . Protesters against sand mining on the Ayeyarwady River in Shwedaung Township, Bago Region on Jan. 16, 2019 / …
A drone image captured the rampant gold mining in Zimbar Creek within Myanmar's southern Tanintharyi Nature Reserve in 2019. Recent satellite images from 2023 reveal that the mining activity has tripled, causing significant harm to the ecosystem and water pollution.
They are mining with heavy machinery, so animals and fish are becoming scarce." Satellite imagery shows the impact of gold mining in Nam San Yang, Kachin State between November 2019 (above) and January 2022 (below). Locals say the 2021 coup accelerated mining. Image by Bret Folger. Myanmar, 2019 and 2022.
In Myanmar, unless it is sustainably managed, sand mining could starve the delta of precious sediment and endanger both the river's ecosystems and the 34 million …
Myanmar's Mining Law requires both authorities and miners to follow specific environmental conservation protocols, but enforcement is weak. In Hpakant, all mining licenses for companies expired ...
With a military junta retaking power last year, a gold rush is increasingly despoiling rivers in the Myanmar state of Kachin, polluting water with mercury, destroying riverbanks and farmland, and disrupting the traditional way …
In Myanmar, sand mining management is regulated under the 2006 Conservation of . Water Resource s and Rivers Law. Operations extracti ng above 50,000 m. 3. have to be as-
SAND MINING IS DESTROYING ASIA'S RIVERS Sand mining is the extraction of sand, mainly through an open pit but sometimes mined from beaches and inland dunes or dredged from ocean and river beds.
The mining of sand from Myanmar's rivers could be creating an environmental crisis with potentially serious consequences for the 34 million people who …
Cambodia, a top-ten global exporter of sand; and an emerging exporter, Myanmar. We examine how sand mining affects, directly and indirectly, a range of livelihoods, specifically fisheries in ...
The mining of sand from Myanmar's rivers could be creating an environmental crisis with potentially serious consequences for the 34 million people who live in the Ayeyarwady River basin. Myanmar cannot afford to ignore the effects of sand mining any longer.
Both the Myanmar government and the company whose ships do the dredging in Chaungzon deny the dredging is causing the erosion. But the dispute highlights the fractious issue of sand-mining in Southeast Asia as Singapore is forced to look farther afield to slake its thirst for the mineral following bans on the trade-in countries like …
As Myanmar farmers lose their land, sand mining for Singapore is blamed - SE Asia - The Jakarta Post. From a boat on the Salween River in southeastern Myanmar, Than Zaw Oo pointed to a brown ...
Myanmar is endowed with abundant natural and mineral resources. However, environmentaldegradation and social impacts have increased in recent years due to foreign investment in the mining sector ...
Mining Sector in Myanmar This document is intended to provide a brief overview of the main Myanmar laws applicable to the mining sector, and to be useful for those undertaking ... - sand suction, sand dredging, sand excavating, river shingle suction, panning for gold, gold mineral dredging or resource production are prohibited from sandbanks or ...
This study finds that sediment loads are insufficient to replace the sand mined from the Mekong River delta, with mining rates high enough to make river banks …
Sand mining is putting Southeast Asia's agriculture in jeopardy, and without careful regulations, strong enforcement and steps to reduce demand, farmers in many areas will …
Other impacts are hard to directly link to sand mining since rivers are affected by so many different factors, including dams, but it is clear that by sucking too much sediment out of the world's rivers, unsustainable sand mining will contribute to bank erosion and shrinking, sinking deltas – with the loss of agriculture land, houses and ...
To mitigate the ecological impacts of sand mining, the researchers are creating a sustainable sand harvesting map. Read more at straitstimes.
The Mining SWIA, developed by MCRB and DIHR, is intended to encourage a switch to responsible mining in Myanmar. This sector-wide impact assessment (SWIA) on limestone, gold and tin mining in Myanmar analyses the impacts of mining of these commodities on the environment, local communities and workers.
Both the Myanmar government and the company whose ships do the dredging in Chaungzon, deny the dredging is causing exacerbated erosion, as local farmers and politicians worry.
Officials in Myanmar and industry sources in Singapore say the bans have prompted Singapore to seek new supplies from countries like Myanmar. Almost 1 million tonnes of sand went from Myanmar to ...
A new UNEP video captures how sand mining is a growing problem, exhausting a finite resource at a great cost to the planet.
Mon State farmers are losing land to erosion along the Salween River; they blame Singapore sand-mining firms, but the companies and the Myanmar government deny any link.
Locals say its sand mining by StarHigh, a company registered - in Singapore. (SOUNDBITE) (Burmese) FARMER THAN ZAW OO, POINTING TO WHERE HIS LAND USED TO BE, SAYING: "This land was mine.
Using freely-available data and open-source software, we developed a remote sensing methodology to identify mining areas and assess recent mining expansion in Myanmar. Our country-wide analysis used Landsat 8 satellite data from a select number of mining areas to create a raster layer of potential mining areas. We used this layer to guide a …
Here, we present a high-resolution remote sensing-based mining monitoring system for sand mining in fluvial systems. We used Sentinel-1 mission, a …
Extracting sand on Ayeyarwady River, August 2017. Photo: B Kadoe. Bethia Kadoe, a Myanmar student who is studying for a Masters' in Environmental Science and Policy, International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE), at Clark University, Worcester MA, USA, was attached for a month in 2017, as an intern with MCRB, and …
Mining of jade, largely for jewellery and carvings destined for China, has exploded in Myanmar in recent years. About 400,000 miners scavenge jade from the …
In Myanmar, sand mining management is regulated under the 2006 Conservation of Water Resources and Rivers Law. Operations extracting above 50,000 m3 have to be as-
Sand mining is associated with further bathymetric (waterbed topography) changes such as waterway direction or thalweg shifts, ... as seen in coastal Cambodia and parts of Myanmar (Lamb et al., 2019). Sand work can also yield negative impacts, particularly when sand work leads to debt-bondage and exacerbates precarity (Singh …
In Myanmar's Largest Jade Mining Town, the Semi-Precious Stone Prized by Chinese Costs More Than Money. When Kai Ring was 17, she and her sisters set out from their hometown of Myitkyina, the capital of Myanmar's northernmost Kachin State, for the world's largest jade mine, in Hpakant, 150 km away....
Unsustainable sand mining transforms the structure of rivers. By removing more than the river can naturally replace with the sediment it carries downstream, sand mining carves a deeper, narrower bed. This lowers the water level, speeds up flow and erodes banks – reducing the watershed's capacity to absorb excess water during floods.
Twenty years ago Ngapali Beach, on the Bay of Bengal, was an unspoilt gem in the crown of Myanmar's natural treasures. Times have changed. Beach sand mining at Ngapali, has disturbed the natural balance. A dossier and photo reportage by Oliver Soe Thet.
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