Japan’s financial aid to be used for healing of Ayeyarwady mangroves

Myanmar will implement a four-year restoration project with Japanese aid worth (Yen 583 million) for mangrove forests in Ayeyarwady delta region starting from November of this year to the end of 2017.

The forest department under the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry will implement mangrove restoration plan for preventative against the natural disaster in delta region together with Japan International Corporation Agency-JICA.

According to a four-year restoration program, the two organizations will nurture 2,850 acres of mangrove plantations, build a cyclone-shelter providing with forest conservation tower and provide the vehicles for the project and the equipments of the office.

They [Myanmar and Japan] will also draw the management plan for mangrove forest and collect the list of aquatic creatures living around the project area to survey the aquatic species of bio-diversity and their life cycles.

source: Eleven Myanmar

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