Myanmar seized 35,000 tons of illegal timber over past nine months

[SeaVisionBurma]

Myanmar authorities confiscated around 35,000 tonnes of illegal timber and wood products, including 5,000 tonnes of teak, from April to December last year, according to government's data.

From Eleven Media Myanmar

The seized timber included 5,141.8875 tonnes of teak, 6,066.7399 tonnes of hard wood, 11,379.219 tonnes of other kinds of timber and 10,883 tons of charcoal.

Together with those timber and timber products seized, 1155 items of machines, vehicles, power boats, motorcycles and engines were also confiscated.

According to the environmental conservation and forestry ministry, most of the illegal timber was seized from Kachin and Shan states along the China-Myanmar border, which usually lack regional stability.

Read the full article here: http://elevenmyanmar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4788:myanmar-seized-35-000-tons-of-illegal-timber-over-past-nine-years&catid=33&Itemid=356

[SeaVisionBurma]

A rather unfortunate but humorous typo in this article

"Reports released by WFP and UNEP say Myanmar is the worst defrosted country in the regional countries"

[householder]

I love the Eleven typos/bad English - they had one recently where they tried putting out a bus fire with fire 'distinguishers', which apparently didn't work, although I'd imagine the inferno ended up very well separated and categorised.

Nobody died or was injured, fortunately.