Deforestation in Myanmar
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title:
Deforestation in Myanmar
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Deforestation in Myanmar led to a reduction in forest cover from 70% of the country in 1948 to 48% by 2014. Myanmar possesses the largest expanse of tropical forest in mainland Southeast Asia, which contains high biodiversity. As of 2010, Myanmar's living forest biomass held 1,654 million metric tons of carbon and over 80 endemic species. Under British rule, Myanmar's forests were logged for timber on an industrial scale for the first time. After independence, commercial logging greatly expanded
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Myanmar
date created:
2014-05-04T16:58:21Z
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2024-09-01T14:11:47Z
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