DEAR my daughter, do you know our country is famous for its vast natural resources? One of them is Burma Teak and it's very expensive and popular to use luxury style decoration. We are proud of this when we are working in oversea because there are less positive things about our country. Recently I read an article called "Shrinking green" in the Strait Time Newspaper and shocked to learn some research data regarding to south-east asia forest. According to data, South-east Asian forests are among the most threatened in the world, with close to 3 million ha destroyed every year. There is never got enough recovery scheme to replace them.
These days, people are suffering from the chaos of severe weather worldwide. The North-America and Europe are fighting with snow storm that halted their major transportation system such as airport and rail. On the other side, some countries are struggling with cyclone, flood, volcano, earthquake, etc. People are however never take care of our earth despite they are facing punishment by our angry planet. If we are talking about global warming, carbon emission and deforestation come top of agenda in the world's serial meetings. Usually carbon emission come from developing countries like china, brazil while deforestation come from less developing countries like our country.
Our government rely on exporting our famous forest products without having proper plan to replace the voids left by cutting trees. The trees were cut by legally and illegally. People need trees for their daily usages such as firewood, making charcoal, building house, etc. On the other hand, forest ministry issue permit to local companies to cut trees for export. Of course our trees goes abroad through several illegal ways with cheap price. It's dangerous and alarming situation if they keep cutting without changing policy to save our forest.
I am so sad to see our country's map change from green to brown. When I was young, I listened to our parent's suggestion that we shouldn't go out of village as the forest is big enough to make a home for tigers. We are afraid of going to the forest alone especially at night time. Villagers used to go there by group when the report is made for missing somebody. Nowadays I rarely see the greenery hillside around my village. All the mountains I can see from a car has no trees and no wonder the temperature reached record high this year. Also the monsoon rain come not usual ways and even spoil our harvest by coming late. Also our people suffer from unusual flooding by heavy rains. While flooding on some regions, our rivers become less water flowing due to hydro-power dam projects. Our government is so busy with building dams all over the country.
Our neighbouring countries are energy-hungry and they are coming to our country to look for any possible energy generation from our rich natural resources. According to report, there are more than 50 dam projects that can generate electricity. Of course these projects destroyed our forest and river. The victims are local villagers because these project made their daily business upside down. They are pity as they have nowhere to file their complain as the project are done by government back companies. Worse? the electricity generated by these hydro projects would be sold to other countries. Meaning the local people's life won't be raised by these project despite they suffer from this projects.
May our forest get a chance to live their full life.
These days, people are suffering from the chaos of severe weather worldwide. The North-America and Europe are fighting with snow storm that halted their major transportation system such as airport and rail. On the other side, some countries are struggling with cyclone, flood, volcano, earthquake, etc. People are however never take care of our earth despite they are facing punishment by our angry planet. If we are talking about global warming, carbon emission and deforestation come top of agenda in the world's serial meetings. Usually carbon emission come from developing countries like china, brazil while deforestation come from less developing countries like our country.
Our government rely on exporting our famous forest products without having proper plan to replace the voids left by cutting trees. The trees were cut by legally and illegally. People need trees for their daily usages such as firewood, making charcoal, building house, etc. On the other hand, forest ministry issue permit to local companies to cut trees for export. Of course our trees goes abroad through several illegal ways with cheap price. It's dangerous and alarming situation if they keep cutting without changing policy to save our forest.
I am so sad to see our country's map change from green to brown. When I was young, I listened to our parent's suggestion that we shouldn't go out of village as the forest is big enough to make a home for tigers. We are afraid of going to the forest alone especially at night time. Villagers used to go there by group when the report is made for missing somebody. Nowadays I rarely see the greenery hillside around my village. All the mountains I can see from a car has no trees and no wonder the temperature reached record high this year. Also the monsoon rain come not usual ways and even spoil our harvest by coming late. Also our people suffer from unusual flooding by heavy rains. While flooding on some regions, our rivers become less water flowing due to hydro-power dam projects. Our government is so busy with building dams all over the country.
Our neighbouring countries are energy-hungry and they are coming to our country to look for any possible energy generation from our rich natural resources. According to report, there are more than 50 dam projects that can generate electricity. Of course these projects destroyed our forest and river. The victims are local villagers because these project made their daily business upside down. They are pity as they have nowhere to file their complain as the project are done by government back companies. Worse? the electricity generated by these hydro projects would be sold to other countries. Meaning the local people's life won't be raised by these project despite they suffer from this projects.
May our forest get a chance to live their full life.
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