"Increased population and the demand for firewood shooting up in power-strapped Burma have led to rampant felling of trees, resulting in near destruction of the country?s enormous mangrove area and its unique ecosystem. Invaded by steadily encroaching fisheries and illegal logging of species, mangrove areas in the country?s coastal region, especially in the 35,138-kilometer Irrawadday (Ayeyarwaddy) division, have received the most awesome blow to be depleted 80 percent over the past seven decades..."