Special Agriculture and Business Lease

PNG hosts APEC on illicit timber while allowing illegal logging

On 23 Feb, 2018 By ACTNOW

IMAGE: Map showing new logging roads and tree cover loss in 2017

SOURCE: Global Witness

How SABLs are disrupting communities and creating conflict

On 19 Feb, 2018 By ACTNOW

Source: Scott Waide, My Land, My Country

All SABLs unlawful

On 14 Mar, 2017 By ACTNOW

PM confirms cancellation of all licenses to thwart illegal land grabbing

By BARNEY ORERE, POST COURIER

PRIME Minister Peter O’Neill has confirmed that the National Executive Council has cancelled all licences and SABLs are illegal.

He said this in response to a community advocacy group Act Now which had been vocal about the land grab issue in relation to SABL – special agriculture and business leases.

Stolen SABL land would reach all the way to the moon

On 15 Feb, 2017 By ACTNOW

Fifty two thousand square kilometres of customary land has been stolen in the SABL land grab.

52,000 square kilometres is the same as 5.2 million hectares - but what does that amount of land really look like?

Court orders halt to RH logging operations in controversial Pomio SABL areas

On 19 Nov, 2014 By rait man

The National Court has issued a restraining order stopping any forest logging operations by Rimbunan Hijau in two controversial Special Agriculture and Business Lease areas in the Pomio district of East New Britain.

The orders have been obtained by landowners from Portions 196C and 197C who claim the SABLs were obtained by fraud and forgery and without their consent and without following the proper processes under the Lands Act.

People and forests of Papua New Guinea under threat: the government’s failed response to the largest land grab in modern history

On 12 Nov, 2014 By rait man

Despite public statements to the contrary, the PNG government is failing to take meaningful action to address the SABL crisis that is harming its people and environment…

Source: Global Witness via PNGExposed

Summary

Papua New Guinea must not renew license to deforest due to legal irregularities, social and environmental harm

On 04 Sep, 2014 By rait man

Source: Global Witness

Communal Ownership of Land is the Peoples’ only safety-net

On 02 Jul, 2014 By Anonymous (not verified)

Source: MILDA/ PACNEWS

What triggered off the rapid issuance of SABLs in PNG?

On 21 Oct, 2013 By Tim

By Nalau Bingeding*

SABL Report to be Presented Soon

On 12 Oct, 2012 By Klaireh

Source: The National

AN interim report on the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) will be presented to cabinet and the prime minister at the end of this month, a lawyer said. Alois Jerewai, one of the three commissioners inquiring into SABLs, said yesterday in a statement that the final report was expected to be released a few weeks after the interim report.

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