Please join as experts shed light on the unlawful timber trade between the countries. The new EIA report “Organised Chaos: The illicit overland timber trade between Myanmar and China” will be launched at the event and a short film on the issue will be screened.

In late July, Myanmar sentenced 153 Chinese nationals to life in prison for illegal logging, shining a spotlight on an issue that has been a problem for decades. As China’s rabid demand for teak, redwoods and other timber has grown, so too has the market for stolen wood from Myanmar’s frontier forests. The trade is worth hundreds of millions of dollars every year, making it one of the single largest bilateral flows of illegal timber in the world.

Who is profiting? Who is perishing? Please join as experts shed light on the unlawful timber trade between the countries. The new EIA report “Organised Chaos: The illicit overland timber trade between Myanmar and China” will be launched at the event and a short film on the issue will be screened.

Faith Doherty has been involved in environmental and human rights work in East Asia for more than 20 years. In the early 1990s, Faith moved to Thailand where she worked with the environmental and human rights community with a special focus on Myanmar. Her work included issues related to the border regions of China, India and Thailand. In the late 1990s, she returned to the UK and joined EIA to work on its Forest Campaign, which she now leads. Her work includes a focus on East Asia and the consuming countries of Western Europe.

Jago Wadley is a Senior Forest Campaigner at EIA, having been part of its Forest team for a decade. His work involves conducting detailed research and investigations, developing policy briefs and writing reports for publication, as well as lobbying governments and timber industry stakeholders worldwide as part of EIA’s campaign to stop the illegal timber trade. Jago has also led EIA’s capacity-building programs in Papua, Indonesia, and has led its work on illegal forest conversion for plantations.