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Mu Aye Pu
Forest and karst in Kawthoolei.

People

Paul Sein Twa

Indigenous Karen environmental leader. Director of KESAN. A voice of the Salween Peace Park. Goldman Environmental Prize, 2020.

Paul Sein Twa belongs on a public page of Kawthoolei as a knowledge holder of the wider landscape, not as a name on anyone’s project. He directs the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN) and has been a central figure in the Salween Peace Park, declared by 348 villages in Mutraw District in December 2018.

That park is a Salween landscape, not the Moei village. The two places share a people, a forest ethic, and a war. His published work on indigenous conserved territory is the proper public record. Conservation.