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  • Plentiful forests, happy people? The EU’s FLEGT approach and its impact on human rights and private forestry sustainability schemes

    Focusing on potential impact on social sustainability in timber exporting or processing states outside the EU, this article discusses the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance...

  • ASEAN: Regional Trends in Economic Integration, Export, Competitiveness, and Inbound Investment for Selected Industries

    This report describes trends in regional integration, export competitiveness, and inbound investment for six industries within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)...

  • Decree No. 163/1999/ND-CP of November 16, 1999 on Assigning and leasing forestry land to organizations, households and individuals for stable and long-term use for forestrial purposes

    This Decree provides for the assignment of forestry land by the State to organizations, households and individuals for stable and long-term use in the form of land assignment wi...

  • Circular No. 04/2004/TT-BCA Guiding Implementation of the Government's Decree No. 35/2003/ND-CP, Detailing the Implementation of a Number of Articles of the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting

    On April 04, 2003, the Government issued Decree No. 35/2003 / ND-CP detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting. For uniform ...

  • Environmental Impact Assessments in Developing Countries: An Opportunity for Greater Environmental Security?

    The first half of this Working Paper will give a background of the origins and development of environmental impact assessments. The second half of the paper will focus on enviro...

  • From the Tiger to the Crocodile: Abuse of Migrant Workers in Thailand

    The thousands of migrant workers from Burma, Cambodia, and Laos who cross the border into Thailand each year trade near-certain poverty at home for the possibility of relative p...

  • Illegal Logging and Related Trade – Indicators of the Assessment Findings: Thailand

    This summarizes Thailand 2013 Assessment Findings. More than half of Thailand’s wood demand is met by imports, and of these 20% is estimated to have been illegally sourced. Howe...

  • Efficacy of Removing Natural Forests from Timber Production as a Strategy for Conserving Forests

    Several countries of the Asia-Pacific region have imposed total or partial logging bans (or similar restrictions on timber harvesting) in response to the rapid decline of natura...

  • International Protection for Siam Rosewood Begins

    As international UN trade restrictions on endangered Siam rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis) came into effect (June 12, 2013), the London-based Environmental Investigation Age...

  • Plants Act, B.E. 2518 (1975)

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  • Good Day for Rosewoods as Species Get More Protection

    September 29 has proved to be a major day for forests as 183 countries at the CITES 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) agreed to boost protection for dalbergia rosewoods. Th...

  • Red Alert: How Fraudulent Siamese Rosewood Exports from Laos and Cambodia are undermining CITES Protection

    The 2013 listing of Siamese rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis spp) on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has failed to protect ...

  • Consideration of Proposals for Amendment of Appendices I and II

    Siamese rosewood had been listed as “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature since 1998. At its 16th meeting (CoP16, Bangkok 2013), the Conference of t...

  • Genealogies of the Political Forest and Customary Rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand

    How have national and state governments the world over come to “own” huge expanses of territory under the rubric of “national forest,” “national parks,” or “wastelands”? The two...

  • Impacts and Effectiveness of Logging Bans in Natural Forests: Thailand

    At the seventeenth session the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC), member countries requested FAO to implement a study of the efficacy of removing natural forests from timb...

  • Myanmar Forest Information and Data (2011 Update)

    According to the U.N. FAO, 48.3% or about 31,773,000 ha of Myanmar is forested, according to FAO. Of this 10.0% ( 3,192,000 ) is classified as primary forest, the most biodivers...

  • Navigating the Border: An Analysis of the China-Myanmar Timber Trade

    In addition to socio-economic pressures, the combination of insufficient regulation in China and political instability in northern Myanmar has exacted a high ecological price. T...

  • Forest Cover Change in Southeast Asia - The Regional Pattern

    This document provides an overview of the present pattern of forest change in Southeast Asia at a regional scale. Areas of forest change were identified and approximately deline...

  • Worldwide Governance Indicators - Myanmar 1996-2016

    The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) are a research dataset summarizing the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert ...

  • Timber Trade and Wood Flow–Study – Myanmar

    The current study on wood demand and supply, and forest industries in the Union of Myanmar is a part of the Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management in Remote Greater Meko...

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