Kawthoolei
Mu Aye Pu
A celebration of people, place and the living landscape.
Mu Aye Pu is a Karen village on the Moei River. The houses are raised. The river is the road. Forest stands immediately behind the roofs.14
This site is a living archive. It is not an investment offer, and it is not a lawsuit page. The difficult chapter — the 2016–2020 development files — is documented, sourced, and kept in Projects.
Place
A landing on the Moei. Karst forest, sandbar, Thailand on the far bank.
People
The village first. Rangers, elders, knowledge holders. Then the paper trail.
Nature
Sun bear, tiger, elephant in the wider hills — and what this archive cannot yet list for the village itself.
Conservation
KNDO rangers at the village. KESAN and Wildlife Protection Units across Kawthoolei. A peace park to the north.
Conservation
Rangers in the village, a peace park on the Salween
In December 2017 Paul Sein Twa of KESAN wrote that KNDO rangers under Nerdah Mya were protecting wildlife around Mu Aye Pu, while KESAN and the Karen Wildlife Conservation Initiative supported Wildlife Protection Units in four KNU districts.1
To the north, 348 villages declared the Salween Peace Park in 2018. That is a neighbour in the same struggle, not a MAPDC asset.4
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The 2016–2020 development files
Between 2016 and 2018 the same small set of companies described a fifteen-room guesthouse, a hotel-school, and a five-thousand-hectare “free city.” The land numbers do not agree. By 2020 the work was on hiatus.123
Those files are easy to find here. They do not define Mu Aye Pu.
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