Text Box: Destruction and Degradation of the Burmese Frontier Forests Text Box: # Text Box: Colofon Destruction and Degradation of the Burmese Frontier Forests: Listening to the People’s Voices By Pan Kachin Development Society (PKDS) And Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN) Acknowledgements: Tropical Rainforest Programme of NC-IUCN for funding the research, Novib for financing the report, Global Witness, Images Asia E-Desk, ERI, Terre des Hommes Germany, and all the people from the local communities who helped with the research. Design: Continental Drift Edited and introduced by: Searchweb Printed by Kaboem Amsterdam, 2004 Text Box: Table of contents Chapter 1 Introduction 3 Chapter 2 The politics of Burma and deforestation 5 a. Politics of Burma 5 b. Logging and civil war 8 Chapter 3 Kachin State by PKDS 10 Introduction 10 a. Logging business 11 b. Who benefits from the logging 14 Chapter 4 Karen State by KESAN 16 Introduction 16 a. Doo The Htoo District 18 b. Mu Traw District (Pa Pun) 24 c. Toungoo District 32 Chapter 5 Conclusions and recommendations by KESAN 40 Maps 42 Abbreviations 44