New
'open' Myanmar opening up to poachers too.
February
2013. Though not on the scale of poaching in Africa, a new and worrying
development has occurred in Myanmar, where at least 11 elephants were killed by
poachers in 2012. An estimated 3,000 wild elephants still live in Burma, but
until very recently they had remained relatively untouched by elephant poaching.
However
as Myanmar opens up to the world, and with its proximity to China with whom it
shares a highly porous border, elephant and tiger poaching were bound to become
more of a problem. In fact Wildlife Extra reported a few years ago that tiger parts
were openly on sale in some markets.
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