How greedy loggers are destroying Mount Popa?s natural wonders... "First it was the tigers. Then came the fish of Burma?s rivers and polluted Inle Lake. Now Burma is losing its butterflies. Mount Popa, in the Myin Gyan District of Mandalay Division, is an extinct volcano best known as the revered abode of spirits known as nats and a nationally famous place of pilgrimage. Less well-known is its importance as the habitat of some of the world?s rarest butterflies, including the beautiful Shwe Hnget Taung (biological name: Taoides aceacus). A Burmese Forest Ministry report in 1982 listed around 100 species of butterfly on Mount Popa. This number had dropped to 60 when Mount Popa?s Environment and Wild Animals Conservation Department conducted a survey in 2000. Seven years later, researchers found only 32—and no Shwe Hnget Taung..."