Conservationists and locals were concerned with a Thai businessman’s plans to build a highway through endangered black leopard territory in Myanmar.
Premchai Karnasuta, the president of Italian-Thai Development, was previously caught poaching the black leopard, which led to protests in Bangkok.
The director of the Dawei Development Association, an advocacy group in Myanmar, said that he was worried if Mr Premchai cannot follow the laws in his own country he will not follow the laws in Myanmar.