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Stone, sand, water the key ingredients changing the Salween landscape

23 December 2016
Mongabay
Biodiversity / Construction / Ecosystems / Environment and natural resources / Extractive industries / Extractive industries licensing and payments / Extractive industries policy and administration / Extractive industries revenues / Industrial mining / Industries / Mining / Rivers and lakes / Surface water
Aung La Teh / Bhumipol dam / Energy Ministry / Hat Gyi Dam / International Group of Entrepreneurs Co / Karen State / Kaw Ku Island / Myanmar / Myint Myint Nwe / Salween River / U Saw Thein Mein Go

Tun Lin has a unique occupation: he is the security guard at Linno limestone karst cave on the bank of the Salween River in Myanmar’s southeast Karen (Kayin) State. He earns 80,000 Myanmar kyat (around $60) per month to guard the entrance to the cave, ...

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