I was forwarded the attached article "The War on Kachin Forests" recently, and although it was published a few years ago, it offers some good background info on the environmental/logging issue. The forest in Kachin state is a "Biodiversity Hotspot", making one of the most valuable and endangered ecosystems in the world. A more recently published article in The Kachin Post discusses the same issue. Its good to see how much has been done in the three-plus years between articles. The Chinese government of course denies that it is engaged in illegal timber trading. Which begs the interesting question of where all of the trees in Kachin state have been disappearing too. And what are all of those new Burma - China highways and bridges are being used for if not the export of resources? They're certianly not for tourist busses.