Preserving Myanmar’s forests
Myanmar has some of Asia's largest remaining expanses of forest, from the slopes of the Himalayan foothills in the north to steamy rainforest in the south.
But it has been disappearing fast. Now the country is preparing to ban the export of raw timber logs as its new reformist government steps up efforts to save this important habitat.
Logs lie piled up at a timber yard in Yangon.
A woman walks past a pile of logs with two children.
A woman chops firewood at a logging camp in Pinlebu township, northern Myanmar.
Teak is loaded onto a lorry at the logging camp.
A man washes himself next a woman collecting water at a Yangon timber yard.
Teak logs lie ready for export in the Bago River in Yangon.
A man waits to unload logs at a timber yard by the Hlaing River.
Men bathe on a boat as they wait to unload logs.
A lorry piled high with logs is seen at a port in Yangon.
Women work at a teak factory in Yangon.
A woman arranges teak parquet in a factory.
