An environment-conservation-related organization of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has proposed to help Myanmar carry out reconservation work on the Mingmahlagyun sanctuary partly destroyed by a recent cyclone storm in May, the local Biweekly Eleven reported Friday.
The Mingmahlagyun sanctuary in Ayeyawaddy delta's Bogalay township is among the six sanctuaries and national parks in Myanmar recognized as ASEAN heritage parks.
The ASEAN organization will cooperate with other non-governmental organizations for the move, the report said.
According to another local report, Myanmar will regrow 50,000 acres (20,250 hectares) of mangrove in the Meinmahlagyun village to resist cyclone attack in the future.
Meinmahlagyun had about 100,000 acres (40,500 hectares) of mangrove before being hit by the severe storm, of which 30 percent were destroyed during the storm.
There were no casualties reported in the Meinmahlagyun village in Bogalay during the disaster.
Myanmar has stressed the preservation of mangrove to mitigate the impact of cyclone storm, calling on people to place emphasis to regrow the plantation after disaster.
Despite destruction of some mangrove in the delta region during the May cyclone storm, it had been able to prevent some villages from inflicting casualties, said other local media, citing donors, who visited a village called Thantheik in Dedaye township in the same division, as saying that although the 1,300-population village lies at a point where rivers meet, no one died in the cyclone.
The mangrove had been able to bring down the speed of the tidal wave, enabling villagers there to escape from deaths, it said.
Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago,Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.
The storm has killed 84,537 people and left 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured according to the latest official-released death toll.
Source:Xinhua
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