Forest Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 29/2018).

The main objectives of this Law include implementing the forestry, natural resources and environmental conservation policies of the Government, developing the State's economy to contribute towards the food and other needs, preventing the dangers of destruction of forests and bio-diversity, outbreak of fires, infestation of insects and occurrence of plant disease, and implementing sustainable forest management.
Under the Law, a standing teak tree wherever situated in the State is owned by the State. Reserved forests may be demarcated under the Law for commercial extraction, local supply, watershed or catchment protection, environment and biodiversity, or other purposes. Protected public forests may be declared to protect soil and water, conserve dry-zone forests, mangrove forests, environment and biodiversity and sustainable production. Procedures are prescribed for determining the affected rights of the public in the demarcation and declaration process. The Law sets out the functions and responsibilities of the Forestry Department. Forest produce may only be extracted after obtaining a permit. The Director-General may grant permission to any person or any organization for cultivation and maintenance of the private forest plantations in the forest land. A person having obtained the right to extract forest produce and natural resources on a commercial scale shall carry out establishing forest plantations or natural regeneration in accordance with prescribed terms and conditions contained in the permit for the State at his own expense.
The Measures further provide for: disposal of drift, establishment of wood-based Industry, stranded and waif timber, offences and penalties, etc.