In pictures: Myanmar log export ban

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  A lorry loaded with logs arrives at the Asia World port in Yangon. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  Teak logs are loaded in a logging camp in Sagaing, northern Myanmar. Total timber exports reached 1.24 million cubic tonnes in the fiscal year to March 2013. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  A man uses a chainsaw to cut teak logs in a logging camp in northern Myanmar. Myanmar’s forest cover shrank almost a fifth, to 47 per cent of land area in 2010, from 58 per cent in 1990. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  The export ban, covering all kinds of trees, will end Myanmar’s status as the only country to export raw teak logs from natural forests rather than plantations. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  A woman chops fire wood at a logging camp in northern Myanmar. The log export ban will force the country’s dominant forestry companies to invest in new processes and diversify. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  The export ban, covering all kinds of trees, will end Myanmar’s status as the only country to export raw teak logs from natural forests rather than plantations. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  Teak logs await export in the Bago river in Yangon. The Maynmar government also plans to slash by 80 per cent the amount of teak it allows to be taken from the forests. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  A woman arranges teak parquet in a factory in Yangon. The log export ban will force the country’s dominant forestry companies to invest in new processes and diversify. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  Workers at a teak parquet factory in Yangon. Maynmar’s forestry industry generates about 90 per cent of export earnings from raw logs and not finished products. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  A woman walks with children near logs at a timber yard in Yangon. The log export ban will force the country’s dominant forestry companies to invest in new processes and diversify. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  A ship loaded with teak logs arrives at National Village timber yard by the Bago river in Yangon. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

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  An elephant pulls a teak log in a logging camp in Sagaing, northern Myanmar. Exports of teak wood reached $359 million last year. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

Myanmar has banned the export of raw timber logs, choking off profits in the forestry industry as a new reformist government steps up efforts to save forests.