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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2005
    Myanmar

    (Press release): "... Ending the destruction of Burma’s northern frontier forests" , details shocking new evidence of the massive illicit plunder of Burma’s forests by Chinese logging companies. Much of the logging takes place in forests that form part of an area said to be “very possibly the most bio-diverse, rich, temperate area on earth.”

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2003
    Myanmar

    A Briefing Document by Global Witness. October 2003...

    Table of Contents... Recommendations...
    Introduction...
    Summary:
    Natural Resources and Conflict in Burma;
    SLORC/SPDC-controlled logging;
    China-Burma relations and logging in Kachin State;
    Thailand-Burma relations and logging in Karen State...

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2004
    Myanmar

    This article on China's forest trade with Myanmar builds on an earlier study by the same authors: “Navigating the Border: An Analysis of the China-Myanmar Timber Trade” [link]. The analysis in this study moves on to identify priority issues along the market chain of the timber trade from the Yunnan-Myanmar border to Guangdong Province and Shanghai on China’s eastern seaboard.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2012
    Myanmar

    This report covers several countries in Asia and Africa....."Myanmar contains some of the most significant
    natural forests left in the Asia Pacific region,
    host to an array of biodiversity and vital to the
    livelihoods of local communities. Forests are
    estimated to cover 48 per cent of the country’s
    land. Yet other recent estimates put forest
    cover at just 24 per cent.
    These vital forests are disappearing rapidly. Myanmar has one
    of the worst rates of deforestation on the planet, with 18 per

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Myanmar

    A project is in progress to build a number of roads in Kachin State in return for huge logging concessions. While improving and expanding the infrastructure in Kachin State is much needed, the impact of this deal on the environment could prove to be disastrous.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2003
    Myanmar

    #039;Capitalizing on Conflict' presents information illustrating how trade in timber, gems,
    and gold is financing violent conflict, including widespread and gross human rights
    abuses, in Burma. Although trade in these “conflict goods” accounts for a small
    percentage of the total global trade, it severely compromises human security and
    undermines socio-economic development, not only in Burma, but throughout the
    region.
    Ironically, cease-fire agreements signed between the late 1980s and early 1990s

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Myanmar

    WHEN soldiers in Myanmar raided a huge illegal logging site in Kachin, a war-torn northern state, they swooped upon a thousand ill-paid labourers imported from neighbouring Yunnan, a province in China. Some of the Chinese managed to flee into the jungle, surviving for days without food and water before escaping across the border. The unluckiest—more than 150 of them—were arrested and prosecuted. China barked at Myanmar in July, when a court in Kachin state handed most of them life sentences. They were soon pardoned and deported, but only after having spent six months in custody.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2015
    Myanmar

    In Myanmar, as in other countries of the Mekong, it is widely acknowledged that the clearing of forests to
    make way for the expansion of commercial agricultural fields is increasingly the leading driver of deforestation,
    alongside legal and illegal logging, and the clearance of forest areas to make way for infrastructure projects
    such as roads and hydropower dams. While the conversion of forests for agricultural development has been
    occurring for many decades, it is the unprecedented rate of this conversion that is now so astounding — as

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2011
    Myanmar

    ... Myanmar is a country of huge biodiversity importance that is undergoing major political change, bringing with it new international engagement. This includes access to international markets, which will likely spur investment in export-oriented agriculture, leading to increased pressures on already threatened ecosystems. This scenario is illustrated in the Ayeyarwady Delta, the country’s agricultural heartland sustaining high deforestation rates. Using the Delta as a model system, we use an integrated

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