Environment group Global Witness claims that more than one million m2 of Burma’s forests are vanishing each year to satisfy demand in neighbouring China.
In a report Global Witness said Burma is suffering the fastest deforestation in south-east Asia and it has called on China to halt logging until an environmental assessment can be made.
A spokesman said: “China has started to protect its own environment now. We call on them to apply the same principles in Burma, but right now what they are doing is the exact opposite.”
