Local conservationists sustain research on threatened heron amid Myanmar instability

Community-led bird surveys have confirmed that one of the world’s most threatened bird species, the white-bellied heron, still survives in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state. As few as 50 mature white-bellied herons (Ardea insignis) are thought to remain globally, confined to a handful of undisturbed forested valleys in Bhutan, northeastern India and northern Myanmar. Their rarity [...]
2026-03-30 11:10:54