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

Date: 2019

## The fact

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](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

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

## Significance

The path is deforestation pressure: completed continued extraction is an environmental-and-conflict-finance cost.

## What is established and what is not

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.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

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. Forest loss and jade-and-timber extraction continue on NLD watch on 2019-11-01 is not a licence to treat every later Forest Department Myanmar communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Forest loss and jade-and-timber extraction continue on NLD watch into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Her civilian ministries regulated slowly. Tatmadaw and militias controlled some tracts. Companies extracted. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Aung San Suu Kyi: https://factrail.ai/people/aung-san-suu-kyi

## Drivers

- Tropical deforestation pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-deforestation-pressure

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-deforestation-idUSKBN1XA0K4
- https://www.forestdepartment.gov.mm/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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