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Capitalism Ominously Comes to Myanmar’s Forests
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Capitalism Ominously Comes to Myanmar’s Forests

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Nov 30, 2013
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Plantation farming is expanding rapidly in Burma and is emerging as the main driver of deforestation, according to a new report released earlier this week saying politically connected businessmen are receiving government licenses to log swathes of natural forest in ethnic minority regions, ostensibly to plant rubber and oil palm.

The report by US-based r…

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