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Current Situation, Challenge & Future Needs for Marine Debris Management in Coastal Mangrove Ecosystem, Myanmar
Wah Wah Min
Accumulation and dispersal of marine debris especially plastic can be caused by anthropogenic sources in coastal mangrove ecosystem in Myanmar. Pollutants, originating from both land and sea, are responsible for significant lethal and sub-lethal effects on marine life. Due to development and business in high population in Myanmar, most of household and industrial products are packed with plastic for transporting. Most of Myanmar local people lives in coastal areas for settlement and intensive farming and aquaculture, rapid urbanization and industrialization, greater shipping traffic and fishing effort, as well as widespread deforestation and near shore development, are contributing towards the pollution problem. Organisms, especially living in mangroves ingest plastic mistaking them as food so high concentration of plastic impact to aquatic animals especially macro-invertebrates' survival consequently low water quality, intake food and reproduction because plastic contain toxic chemicals. So currently we need to observe the major gaps in adequate scientific research, assessment and monitoring on marine debris globally. The impact of marine debris on coastal and marine species, habitats and economic health, human health and safety and social values are not yet understood. We will study on the temporal trend of plastic pollution and toxicological effect of plastic associated chemicals in more detail and we should take in action against plastic pollution according to precautionary principle. The assessment will identify gaps and challenges of marine debris. We need to reduce the impacts of marine pollution in Myanmar is all the more critical and focus on sustainable coastline 's strategy for addressing plastic pollution, raising community awareness and inspiring changes in future.
2018
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12678/0000002686
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