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‘Better late than never’: Myanmar bans timber exports to save remaining forests

By Morgan Erickson-Davis - Mongabay.com
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Deforestation in Myanmar has resulted in significant habitat loss across a variety of interconnected ecosystems within the bio-diverse nation. Such effects are devastating on not only ecosystems, but also on wildlife and indigenous societies. The nation enacted a ban on raw timber exports to mitigate the loss of forestry and ecosystems; the effectiveness of such a ban is contested.