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Land owners take action while decision pends in court

Source: Jimmy Kalebe

The current logging operations in Turubu LLG in Wewak District and parts of Sausso LLG in Yangoru Saussia District East Sepik Province are still going despite it being nullified by the national government last year.

During the 6years of massive logging and round log export, millions of Kina damages were done to the environment, affecting livelihoods of local people.

To date, promises of improved infrastructure and other benefits as stated by the landowner company in the beginning were never materialized.

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Not Destructive Development

Source: "Red Soil"

Jimmy is from the Junk-Aral District of the Jiwaka Province, and he walks from Jiwaka out to the Madang Province to sell his bags of coffee beans and peanuts once or twice every month. From where Jimmy’s village is located, one has to climb very rugged steep mountains, brave the thick jungles and cross some of the fastest flowing rivers to get to town and back home.

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O’NEIL’S ‘NO RESPONSE’ TO THE ELCPNG ON ESM

Source: "Red Soil"

The Prime Minister Peter O’Neil has not responded to the appeal made by more than 2 million Lutherans nationwide, to not go ahead with the said Experimental Seabed Mining (ESM) to happen in Papua New Guinea.

Picture: Lutheran followers gather in protest against the Experimental Seabed Mining

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PNG Prime Minister speaks up on West Papua

Source: The interpreter

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REAL SHARK TALE WAITING TO VANISH

Photo Caption: Eliuda Toxok Shark Calling out at sea

Source: "Red Soil"

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Trauma: a too well-known issue of priority for Bougainville

Source: Special Correspondent in Bougainville

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HRW: 2015 World Report addresses gender inequality, police brutality, corruption

Source: EM TV Online

Gender inequality, corruption and police brutality are among the key issues Papua New Guinea faces today, Human Rights Watch’s 2015 World Report states.

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What is the benefit of paying my Taxes????

Avoid paying taxes and go to jail. By Niugini Blog

Source: Richard Mark via Facebook 

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Why Momis is Beholden to BCL

Source: Special Correspondent in Bougainville

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Extractive industries cause "serious human rights problems and environmental harm" in PNG

A victim of domestic violence shows her head wound patched up with tape in a women's shelter in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby © 2005 Reuters

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