Despite Myanmar’s nationwide commercial logging ban in 2016, illegal loggers continue to find work cutting down trees with chainsaws, imported largely from China and often obtained illegally and used without training or protective gear, according to a months-long investigation by Mongabay.
The National Unity Government is organising regional administrations in areas under its control in central Myanmar, but questions linger about their effectiveness and how well they will coordinate with armed groups.
BY Frontier
