Myanmar-China illegal timber trade still thriving: report
Timber extracted from Myanmar’s frontier forests is flowing into China in illegal transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to a report published on 17 September.
The research, by the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and partly financed by the UK, the European Union and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, finds that illicit timber trade between the two countries is nearing an all-time high.
Far from being chaotic and complex, the supply chain is well structured, with a number of players colluding to ensure business runs smoothly.
