Kazumi Fujikawa is scouring a nature-rich mountain range in Myanmar. Her mission, to find, identify and classify its flora, is central to the nation's future economy and environment.
The 45-year-old Kochi woman's plant taxonomy work in Natma Taung National Park is part of the process of creating an illustrated reference book of plants and flowers in Myanmar.
The country, whose natural environment is now threatened by economic development triggered by a shift from global isolation under military rule to democracy, has no such compendium of its flora as yet.