Illegal timber trade destroying Myanmar’s forests uncovered in new report
▻http://news.mongabay.com/2015/09/illegal-timber-trade-destroying-myanmars-forests-uncovered-in-new-rep
An illegal timber trade has flourished for the past twenty years, extracting Myanmar’s frontier forests and taking them over land into China virtually unimpeded.
A new report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) details the illicit trade, which the report’s authors say is one of the largest illegal timber markets in the world, worth hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
EIA’s Julian Newman told mongabay that one of the biggest drivers of the illegal timber trade is Chinese demand for rosewood (or hongmu). Supplies from other countries are dwindling, Newman said, and some species, like Thai rosewood, are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
Chinese traders have focused on Myanmar, primarily cutting and moving the logs into China’s Yunnan province through Kachin State, where ethnic groups have been at war with the Myanmar government for the better part of the past two decades.
▻https://eia-international.org/wp-content/uploads/EIA-Organised-Chaos-FINAL-lr1.pdf
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