Myanmar: Surge in Illegal Logging by Chinese in Myanmar Alarms Activists

Sep 17, 2015 | Tom Phillips, The Guardian
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A torrent of illegal timber worth hundreds of millions of dollars each year is pouring across Myanmar’s border into China as loggers reach deeper into the country’s forests in search of profits, activists have claimed. In a report released in Beijing on Thursday, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency said there had been an alarming escalation of timber flowing into China over the last three years.