FORESTS PLUNDERED FOR FURNITURE FACTORIES
(1 Jun 2012) This chunk of timber is the highly valued Burmese Padauk. Workers from Myanmar are working in the border town of Ruili to chop, and carve and sand logs from Myanmar's pristine forests in the northeast of the country.
The Burmese workers have come to Ruili in search of work and to escape the ethnic strife in Myanmar.
Ruili's timber mills are flourishing. In a single day, dozens of trees come to the mill as logs and are turned into luxurious tables, chairs and furniture for the newly affluent Chinese.
In most areas of China, after a persistent crackdown by the authorities on the illegal timber trade, many Chinese mills are processing local, soft woods used for pulp and plywood.
But in Ruili, on the porous border with Myanmar, the hard wood logs razed from Burmese pristine forests are plundered for use in the domestic and global furniture industry.
The bustling factory floor highlights the persistence of an illegal practice that is threatening the forests in South East Asia and the efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
Xie Wenhua, manager of this workshop in Ruili says that the proximity to the border allows the factory to acquire illegal timber easily and cheaply.
Because here we are close to Myanmar. The wood from Myanmar is cheaper when it is transported here from across the border. It's cheap, but it's still the real material. Maybe in another place, the wood is not as cheap as it is here, says Xie.
According to a 2003 investigation by the environmental watchdog, Global Witness, 98 percent of the timber that entered China from Myanmar was illegal.
In the last few years, China has pledged to tackle the problem of illegal logging both in China and across its borders.
The devastating impact of mass logging was a hard lesson that the country learned in 1998, after heavy flooding caused thousands of deaths and more than $25 (bn) billion US dollars in damage in the Yangtze River area.
Since then, logging has been banned in the country, while authorities have rolled out an ambitious and on-going reforestation project.
But the problem of deforestation has simply shifted across China's borders in what has been dubbed the outsourcing of deforestation.
The challenge for environmental groups is to encourage poor families to protect rather than plunder the forests for income.
Probably the toughest issue to tackle and to solve is how do you work in communities where a single log can support a family for a year, or for multiple years, says Charles Bedford, Asia Pacific regional managing director for The Nature Conservancy.
How do you figure out the set of incentives or alternative livelihoods that can sustain people and communities in the forest over time?
That is the case for many of the labourers at the workshop in Ruili.
Forced out of their villages in the on-going Kachin ethnic insurgency, many Burmese end up illegally crossing the border in search of work and economic opportunities.
Workers that are often under age toil for many hours on low pay and in poor conditions. Many Burmese are doing the work that would be considered poorly paid by many Chinese.
As China's middle class has boomed, the demand for luxury wood products has grown.
At this jade shop in Ruili, a single chunk of tree has been carved into the shape of a lion.
China's timber trade is roaring. Demand for finer timber has fuelled the clandestine imports of woods from Myanmar and other neighbouring countries.
The border between Myanmar and China is very porous, and goods and people often slip across the border bypassing customs officials.
A narrow stretch of river divides China and Myanmar, and the southern Chinese province of Yunnan remains the main gateway for illegal timber into the country.
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RUILI Cultural and Environmental Conservation Field Trip
Students from University of Tasmania, University of Sunshine Coast, Charles Darwin University and University of New England travelled to Bali and Sumatra, in Indonesia, to learn about the challenges that the communities are facing surrounding environmental and conservation. We met some amazing organisations and saw some of Indonesia’s beautiful scenery and wildlife that these people are working so hard to protect! Our Indonesian partner universities for this program were Udayana University and North Sumatera University.
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Yunnan 2007 Part 5
Part 5 starts in the Yingjiang area, but then moves on to Ruili on the Burmese border.
Species featured in the Yingjiang area are buff-barred warbler, scarlet minivet, yellow-cheeked tit, grey sibia, grey-cheeked fulvetta, very brief golden babbler, fire-breasted flowerpecker, rusty-capped fulvetta, red-faced liocichla, the call of a very well hidden cachar wedge-billed wren-babbler and mountain bamboo-partridge.
Species featured in the Ruili area are rufous-necked laughingthrush, plaintive cuckoo, Burmese shrike, female grey bushchat, Oriental magpie-robin, a mixed group of rufous-necked and white-browed laughingthrushes then just white-browed, collared myna, red-whiskered bulbul, river lapwing, greater coucal, nutmeg mannikin, plain prinia, something too brief to identify, Oriental white-eye, rusty-fronted barwing and a rufous-backed sibia at dusk.
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Alishan's Trails and Bamboo Feast.mpg
Over 140 years old, this trail in Ruili is one of the more challenging ones in Alishan. It's 5.2 km of what seems like nothing but stairs. Oh but there are plenty of views to look at when you're catching your breath, like insects, beautiful trees and a suspension bridge that crosses over a valley with a river that runs through it.
The Bat Cave and Swallow Cliff are the most popular attractions here.
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Are there really bats here?
Yes, several thousand.
When there are lots of people, they go elsewhere.
This came from the ocean floor and used to be ant holes.
Ant holes?
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Over there, there are lots of swallows. In the morning, swallows like to take shelter from the rain there. So it's called Swallow Cliff. Swallows like to go there because of the water.
This trail might be a bit tough for most people, but a walk through this nearby bamboo forest is practically effortless, and it's so beautiful that in pictures, it's mistaken for famous places like Arashiyama in Kyoto, Japan.
Speaking of bamboo, this is a feast of Alishan's bamboo shoots.
From boiled bamboo shoots with sweet mayonaise to that cooked in soup, with chicken, fish or pork, there is a huge variety of cuisine made from the different kinds of bamboo here. They say because the cold slows the growth of bamboo, the fibers are thinner and the texture is much more tender. So the next time you come hiking in Alishan, don't forget to try the panda food. Just kidding, I mean the bamboo shoots!
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