The Pgaz K’Nyau Karen, one of Thailand’s largest cultural groups, care for extensive sacred forests and maintain rotational farming systems grounded in long‑standing spiritual and ecological traditions. UBC Forestry professor Terry Sunderland notes that shifting cultivation, when practiced with sufficient fallow periods for forest regeneration, has helped shape many forest landscapes and can even enhance measures of biodiversity.
Read more about the Pgaz K’Nyau Karen community here: https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/forest-sanctuaries-and-spiritual-balance-in-the-karen-highlands-of-thailand/