Myanmar: The Charcoal Hunters

Oct 27, 2017 | Emmanuel Freudenthal and Nathan Siegel, Mongabay
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The train rocked from side to side like a sketchy funhouse. It was the rainy season in northern Myanmar and Emmanuel Freudenthal and Nathan Siegel had been traveling for nearly a week. For the next couple of weeks, they would follow the colossal Irrawaddy River upstream until it bent to lick the Chinese border. They had come to document Myanmar’s export of timber to China, an illegal trade that has been depleting the country’s forests over decades.