Myanmar: Myanmar Bans Lucrative Logging in Bid to Preserve Forests

Apr 28, 2016 | Timothy Mclaughlin and Aung Hla Tun, Reuters
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Myanmar has banned lucrative logging operations as the newly-elected government of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi steps up a battle on deforestation, an environment official said on Thursday. Myanmar's rich forests are among its most valuable natural resources, but they have been plundered by logging that helped fund the former military regime that ran the country for 49 years, before reforms began in 2011.