Myanmar: Myanmar Logging Ban a Major Step to Forest Sector Reform

Aug 4, 2016 | Environmental Investigation Agency
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The new Government of Myanmar has agreed a temporary national logging ban and a 10-year logging ban in the Pegu Yoma region to give its beleaguered forests breathing space from years of unchecked exploitation. The national logging ban will run until the end of March 2017, in effect closing the forests for one complete logging season. All exports of round logs from the country have been banned since April 2014.