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Tapping into indigenous knowledge and involving local communities are the best ways to protect forests and other natural resources to keep climate change in check, a prominent Myanmar activist said on Thursday. Paul Sein Twa, an indigenous Karen who two years ago established a 1.35 million acre (546,300 hectares) peace park, was this week named the Asia winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize - known as the "Green Nobel" - for grassroots activism. The Salween Peace Park, in the Salween River basin on Myanmar's eastern frontier with Thailand, is an important biodiversity area that combines the ancestral lands of about...
