Myanmar: With Logging Ban Lifted, Myanmar Timber Policy Falls Flat

Apr 28, 2017 | Jacob Goldberg, Coconuts
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s lackluster first year in power was perforated by at least one bold policy – a yearlong ban on logging across all of Myanmar. The ban was hailed by environmental groups as an important gesture from a country that had lost an enormous 10.8 percent of its forest cover between 2010 and 2015, much of it to illegal smugglers. The ban was lifted at the end of March 2017, and now the Myanmar government says it is on its way to bringing verifiably legal timber to the international market.