unsustainable logging

How we can stop criminal cartels stealing our forests

On 18 Mar, 2018 By ACTNOW

Police action squad dealing to illegal loggers in Oro Province. Image: Gary Juffa/FB

OPINION: By Gary Juffa

In the ongoing saga of stopping illegal logging in Papua New Guinea’s Oro province, our facts reveal that the PNG Forest Authority is failing our people.

PNG's poor Forest Minister twenty-five years out of date

On 28 Oct, 2015 By ACTNOW

Forest Minister Douglas Tomuriesa seems to be living in the past and to be unaware of all the current problems in the forestry sector in PNG

The Minister has gone public, see below, claiming all the issues of illegal and unsustainable logging in PNG have been dealt with starting in 1991 with the passing of the Forestry Act and establishment of the PNG Forest Authority.

APEC forest ministers urged to press PNG government to act on land grabbing and illegal logging

On 23 Oct, 2015 By ACTNOW

APEC Forest Ministers are being urged to question the PNG government about widespread land grabbing and illegal and unsustainable logging and press for action when they meet in Port Moresby next week

Community advocacy group ACT NOW! has written to sixteen APEC Forest Ministers explaining the history of the SABL land grab and the continuing problems of illegal and unsustainable logging in PNG.

PNG anti-corruption taskforce broke after making allegations against prime minister Peter O'Neill

On 05 Feb, 2015 By Elizabeth1

Source: ABC News

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