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Letter: Supporting a boycott of Burmese blood amber

Published 5 June 2019

From David Grimaldi, New York, US

Graham Lawton unveils a monstrous situation surrounding the mining and sale of amber in Myanmar (4 May, p 38). If amber sales are funding bloodshed there, then a strict boycott of Burmese amber is absolutely necessary.

Issue no. 3233 published 8 June 2019

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