Myanmar/Burma has lost one fifth of its forest cover – an area almost three times the size of Belgium – since 1990. Nearly half of the country remains forested, but with firewood as the only energy source available to rural populations in the absence of electricity and unsustainably high levels of commercial logging, deforestation will continue, even if government measures such as a ban on exports of unprocessed wood may slow its pace.
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