CitSciAsia Meets... the Myanmar Crane Team
Channel: CitSciAsia
Date: 2022-02-10

CitSciAsia Meets... is an interview series focusing on the citizen scientists in Asia 🌏. If you are interested in telling us your story, we would love to share it with the community and the world. 

CitizenScience.Asia had the pleasure to head out into the waterways of Ayeyarwady in Myanmar 🇲🇲 to meet with Ko Layy Winn from the Myanmar Crane Team. Ko Layy is the Myanmar Project Manager for the International Crane Foundation, running their project working to conserve and protect the population of Sarus Cranes living in the Ayeyarwady river delta. 

Sarus cranes are the worlds tallest flying bird, standing at a height of up to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) and classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because of habitat destruction to the wetlands they live in. Ko Layy and the Myanmar Crane team carry out surveys and work with the local community to help protect the birds.  Going into to local schools and community centers to help more people learn about and appreciate these special cranes through this education project. Here Ko Layy tells us a bit about his work.

Follow the project on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/myanmarcraneteam/

Read more here: https://savingcranes.org/notes-from-the-president-using-eco-rice-to-protect-sarus-crane-habitats-in-myanmar/

The project is supported by the International Crane Foundation, Yangon University, Disney Conservation, Leiden Conservation Fund, Conservation Food and Health Foundation, and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Yangon.

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Credit to https://www.FesliyanStudios.com for the background music.

Pictures thanks to Ko Layy Winn, the International Crane Foundation, and Frank Thierfelder.