Music festival for wildlife to be held in Myanmar's Yangon

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A first-ever music festival "Voices for Wildlife" will be held in Myanmar's Yangon in April, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday.

Jointly organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Embassy of Denmark in Myanmar, the Mahabandoola Park in Yangon will host the music festival on April 7.

The music concert aims to promote awareness and share ways for eradicating wildlife trafficking, a big challenge faced in the country as well as in other countries.

Meanwhile, an elephant-focused campaign against illegal trade named "Voices for Momos," a friendly term used for elephants in the country, was launched by the WWF-Myanmar in November last year.

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Also, the Myanmar government has planned to shut down at least 20 illegal wildlife trade markets in the Golden Triangle border region by 2020 with the help of wildlife conservation groups.

In the Golden Triangle border region between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, wildlife species such as tigers, elephants, rhinoceros, serow, helmeted hornbill, gaur, leopard and turtles are illegally traded.

Myanmar has also signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to protect wild elephants, setting aside an area of 9,205 square miles for elephant sanctuaries.

Both local and international non-governmental organizations are exerting efforts to expand the area of land for wildlife reserve in the country.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency