Country

Myanmar

Myanmar: 17 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Seventeen ecoregions stack up through Myanmar, from mangroves and coastal rain forests on the Bay of Bengal to Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows in the far north. The core of the country is tropical moist broadleaf forest in many forms: Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests along the central river, montane rain forests in the Kayah-Karen and Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma ranges, and the Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests toward India. The central Irrawaddy dry forests, ranked Nature Imperiled, mark a rain-shadowed dry zone inside an otherwise monsoon-wet country. Planting conditions shift accordingly, monsoon-driven wet and dry seasons in the lowlands giving way to genuinely temperate broadleaf, conifer, and even subalpine conditions as the land climbs toward the Himalaya.

Ecoregions here

Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests Irrawaddy dry forests Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests Kayah-Karen montane rain forests Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests Myanmar Coast mangroves Myanmar coastal rain forests Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests Northern Indochina subtropical forests Northern Triangle subtropical forests Northern Triangle temperate forests Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests