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NEW REPORT: Ten Years Without a Crop: The Wammy Rural Development Project

On 06 Sep, 2023 By Eddie Tanago

Forest Clearing Authorities are being unlawfully used to facilitate large-scale logging operations by foreign-owned logging companies according to a new report published today by ACT NOW!, in collaboration with Jubilee Australia Research Centre. 

The new report, which focuses on the Wammy logging operation in West Sepik Province, reveals how a Malaysian logging company has used a Forest Clearing Authority (FCA), intended to allow land clearing for agriculture or other land use projects, as a front to export hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of round logs. 

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PNG's Timber Barons: # 3 The Rimbunan Hijau Group

On 30 Mar, 2023 By Eddie Tanago

Rimbunan Hijau (RH) Group (From"The New Timber Baron Report")

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SABL: Over to you at the big Haus Tambaran

On 23 Feb, 2012 By Klaireh

There are diverse issues that concern individual Papua New Guineans in different ways, but the one issue that will always be of great cultural and emotional significance to all of us is our land. Taking away someone’s land or their right to it, is as good as amputating all four of their limbs.

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Civil Society calls on government to act on SABL logging

On 21 Oct, 2011 By rait man

This full-page advertisement appeared in the daily newspapers in Papua New Guinea today, 21 October 2011, in support of the campaign for the suspension of logging inside Special-purpose Agriculture and Business lease areas. You can send an email in support of the campaign here - ACT NOW!

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