2008

• Cyclone proved the failure of “development” based on mangrove destruction
• Generals go berserk on biofuels
• Dams in the Irrawaddy River Basin to displace thousands of people in rural areas

2007

• The greening of the military junta by the Wildlife Conservation Society

2006

• Dams as ethnic cleansing: The Burmese junta’s war against the Karenni people
• Selling timber, buying instability, poverty and destruction

2005

• The politics of conservation - Wildlife Conservation Society
• Ceasefire, Logging and Mining Concessions in Kachin State

2004

• China Continues Devouring Neighbour’s Forests
• Forests for Export to China

2003

• Behind the glitter of rubies, sapphires and jade
• Burma/Thailand/Laos: Colonial forestry - then and now
• Revival of the Weigyi dam

2002

• Upstream deforestation and shrimp farming are destroying the mangroves
• New roads pave the way for massive logging

2001

• Forced labour in oil palm plantations

2000

• Human rights abuses linked to foreign investment in "development"
• Gas, dictatorship and multinationals at Yadana
• A dam megaproject for the benefit of the people?

1999

• Chinese paper industry in Myanmar

1998

• Threats to close off the forest against gas pipeline

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Capitalizing on Conflict. How Logging and Mining Contribute to Environmental
Destruction in Burma
A report by EarthRights International with Karen Environmental & Social Action Network, October 2003

The War on Kachin Forests 
The Irrawaddy No. 8, October - November 2001

LINKS

Greenburma - e-group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/greenburma/

Canadian Friends of Burma
http://www.cfob.org/Campaigns/campaigns.shtml 

Oxfam Mekong Initiative
http://www.oxfammekong.org/ 

Earth Rights
http://www.earthrights.org/burma.shtml

Global Witnesss
http://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/forests/