Katherine J. LaJeunesse Connette

TL;DR: It is found that forests cover 42,365,729 ha or 63% of Myanmar, making it one of the most forested countries in the region, but severe logging, expanding plantations, and degradation pose increasing threats.

TL;DR: A horizon-scanning approach was used to assess the 40 emerging issues most affecting Myanmar's forests, including internal conflict, land-tenure insecurity, large-scale agricultural development, demise of state timber enterprises, shortfalls in government revenue and capacity, and opening of new deforestation frontiers with new roads, mines, and hydroelectric dams.

TL;DR: This four-month project provides the first publicly-available database of mining areas in Myanmar, and it demonstrates an approach for large-scale assessment of mining extent and expansion based on freely-available data.

TL;DR: The rapid progression of deforestation in and around the proposed Lenya National Park is documented, which includes some of the largest remaining areas of lowland evergreen rainforest in mainland Southeast Asia.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors developed a national scale Forest Type map of Myanmar at 20m resolution, using moderate resolution, multi-sensor satellite images (Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and ALOS-PALSAR), extensive field data, and a machine learning model (RandomForest).