Rainforests Facing a New Challenge

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Logging is back in Kachin State under a new mask. Logging no longer will be the illegal business in one of the world?s biggest green regions that houses most of the teaks left on earth. Logging this time has returned into the region with bigger ambition and the safer shield under the title of agro-forestry development projects. For decades, deforestation in Kachin State was traditionally carried out by agricultural farming industry of the local people and Asia?s one of the longest civil wars in the nation. High speed massive illegal logging was introduced to the region only by logging companies from neighbouring Yunnan Province only after China?s economy started roaring in 1990s. And it remarkably escalated in 1998 when China banned logging in its nation after facing serious floods in their home land. Forests in northern Burma were dwindling quickly in early 2000 and Kachin State became a hottest target for all the international watchdogs. But, finally, loggers have found a new and safest way to continue their business with a higher speed.

Creator/author: 

Phyusin Linn

Source/publisher: 

UNPO

Date of entry: 

2010-09-22

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English

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