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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2016
    Myanmar

    ... Myanmar’s forest and timber sector has been central to the country’s economy and society, particularly over the last century. Since the colonial era, timber has been a major export revenue earner to Burma/Myanmar and thus subject to much political debate (Bryant 1996). In addition to timber export revenues, the forests of Myanmar have always provided timber and non-timber forest products for domestic consumption as well as a range of environmental services including water catchment, habitat for flora and fauna, carbon storage, and soil nutrient recovery in rotational agriculture.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2013
    Myanmar

    ... Extremely rapid growth in Chinese imports of ‘redwood’, ‘rosewoods’ or ‘Hongmu’ timbers from Myanmar in the past two years is directly driving increased illegal and unsustainable logging, posing a real threat to governance, the rule of law and the viability Myanmar’s dwindling forests. EIA research shows that, based on current trends, the two most targeted Hongmu species in
    Myanmar - tamalan and padauk - could be logged to commercial extinction in as little as three years.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1948
    France, Switzerland, United States of America, Fiji, China, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Denmark, Guinea, Republic of Korea, Finland, Pakistan, Japan, Myanmar, Netherlands, India, Brazil, Canada

    An international journal of forestry and forest industries

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