READ MORE: How Florida wood traders navigate ban on repressive regime’s rare teak: Tree DNA tests. The December shipment of teak — loaded at a Myanmar port owned by an oligarch with close ties ...

Teak grown in Myanmar is sanctioned in the U.S, Canada, U.K and Europe, so the import and sale of it is illegal. However ...

The wood is cheaper than natural teak, and it doesn’t share the same water- and weather-resistant properties. Other natural woods exist that possess some of teak’s desirable qualities, like ...

Myanmar began allowing private companies to set up teak and other timber plantations in 2006, ending a state monopoly on the industry. In 2014, the government banned exports of all raw timber ...

Teak wood exports are being restricted as the Myanmar Government transfers operations from a government business to private enterprise. Only 20% of the volume is to be exported compared to last ...

More than 1,700 tons of teak — much of it evading economic sanctions — were exported to the United States from Myanmar after the Southeast Asian country’s military seized power in a coup ...

BANGKOK (AP) — American companies are still importing teak from Myanmar despite sanctions imposed after the military seized power last year, a report based on trade data said Tuesday. Teak is ...

A Myanmar logging elephant pulls a teak log across a shallow stream on Jan. 15, 2001, near Shwe Pyi Aye camp in the jungles of central Myanmar. DAVID LONGSTREATH AP Florida companies Teakdecking ...

Myanmar has beens famed for its teak wood for centuries. The British established shipyard there in the 18th century after depleting their own oak forests. The forest area with significant teak ...

With a Belgium-size area of forest lost between 2001 and 2018, the EIA predicts that Myanmar’s forests will disappear by 2035 if the current trend continues. This would be a serious blow for ...

Myanmar is struggling with heavy deforestation. Between 2000 and 2020, it lost over 16,000 square kilometres of tropical forest ...

Justice for Myanmar’s report shows that nearly half the 1,725 tons of teak imported to the U.S. last year after the coup was purchased by East Teak Fine Hardwoods in Donalds, S.C.