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Forest loss and jade-and-timber extraction continue on NLD watch

Through 2019 satellite and NGO monitoring still showed high forest loss and jade-and-timber extraction in Kachin and elsewhere on NLD watch. In the causal graph this event strengthens Tropical deforestation pressure, a driver that strengthens Global CO2 emissions per capita — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Through 2019 satellite and NGO monitoring still showed high forest loss and jade-and-timber extraction in Kachin and elsewhere on NLD watch.

Context

MONREC sits. Tatmadaw and militias sit on some tracts. She did not hold a chainsaw. Continuation is still a dated environmental cost.

Land complaints are a neighbouring rural-asset row. Investment opening is a neighbouring industrial row.

Myanmar’s State Counsellor (2016–2021) was de facto civilian head under the 2008 Constitution; she did not command the Tatmadaw’s autonomous ministries, write a Bangladeshi gazette, an ICJ merits judgment, or a 2026 Min Aung Hlaing amnesty. She has been detained since 1 February 2021; as of August 2026 she is under house arrest after sentence commutations, not in office. A Nobel lecture is not a clearance-operation order. An ICJ appearance is not a personal genocide conviction. A junta court sentence is not a finding that every charge was true. Allegation of a stolen 2020 count is not stored as a completed steal. A Panglong speech is not a nationwide ceasefire. A Reuters conviction is not a completed finding that the journalists planted evidence. A 2026 ICRC visit is not a release.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.3 · verified

    Her civilian ministries regulated slowly. Tatmadaw and militias controlled some tracts. Companies extracted.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactForest loss and jade-and-timber extraction continue on NLD watch
    2. strengthensDriverTropical deforestation pressure
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Global CO2 emissions per capita
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 November 2019 · verified

    Continued forest loss on NLD watch is a completed deforestation-pressure spell.

    • Global CO2 emissions per capita

      via Tropical deforestation pressure

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.4)

      Observed

      4.73 tonnes CO2 per person per year · 2.43 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 4.71 tonnes CO2 per person per year (2023) and 4.73 tonnes CO2 per person per year (2024).

      20232024

      Above normal = worse

    • Population-weighted PM2.5 air pollution exposure (global)

      via Tropical deforestation pressure

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.25)

      Observed

      32.9 micrograms per cubic metre (annual mean, population-weighted) · 27.9 above the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      3 readings, 2021–2023: fell from 33.2 micrograms per cubic metre (annual mean, population-weighted) to 32.9 micrograms per cubic metre (annual mean, population-weighted).

      Above normal = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Myanmar forest loss continues under Suu Kyi governmentReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Forest Department — forest-cover reporting, 2019Forest Department Myanmar · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Forest Department Myanmar carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: 2019 continued high forest loss and extractive pressure during her term, independently reported.

Not established: that she ordered every concession, or a unique later rainfall coefficient from one tract.

Tatmadaw and militias controlled some tracts. Companies extracted.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Forest loss and jade-and-timber extraction continue on NLD watch, not a later speech about Forest loss and jade-and-timber extraction continue on NLD watch.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Her civilian ministries regulated slowly. Companies extracted. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAung San Suu Kyi
  2. contributed toFactForest loss and jade-and-timber extraction continue on NLD watch
  3. strengthensDriverTropical deforestation pressure
  4. strengthensIndicatorGlobal CO2 emissions per capita

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). Forest loss and jade-and-timber extraction continue on NLD watch. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-suu-deforestation-2019

https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-suu-deforestation-2019

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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