Thursday, July 16, 2009

Work together for conservation of natural teak forests

Myanmar has laid down the objectives for the forest sector and these objectives are aimed at national socio-economic development and environmental and ecological balance.In the world, Myanmar, India, Thailand and Laos are the countries where teak trees grow naturally. The teak of Myanmar has been the best and the most popular. Because of Myanmar's terrestrial, aquatic and climatic conditions, the number of naturallygrowing teak trees has been on the increase and the Bago mountain range is home to world-famous teak trees.
Natural teak forests cover about half of the nation's area. According to the records of Forest Department before 1990, there is a total of 27.29 million hectares of teak forests in the world and, out of it, 16.25 million hectares are in Myanmar. There are 12.53 million acres of teak forests in the Bago mountain range alone.
A teak-planting ceremony was held in the Margri forest reserve in Taikkyi Township on 11 July to green the Bago mountain range.
Also in Shwetaung Township, Pyay District, Bago Division, Forest Department had teak saplings planted in an acre of land in each village and three teak saplings in the compound of each household. The teak of Myanmar is famous worldwide. Therefore, young teak trees are grown at tree-planting ceremonies in the rainy season every year to prevent the depletion of teak forests.
We would like to call on the entire national people to work together for the conservation of natural resources, especially forest resources, for the sake of the environment and national economic development.

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