ACT NOW has lodged a formal complaint with the Ombudsman Commission calling for an investigation into the government's purchase of 40 luxury Maserati motor cars for the 2018 APEC Summit.
Almost three-years after the Summit ended, the cars are sitting idle in a Port Moresby warehouse.
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Global Witness
A two-year investigation shines a light on palm oil in Papua New Guinea, the notorious industry’s newest frontier. It reveals a litany of human rights abuses and the wide-scale destruction of tens of thousands of hectares of climate-critical rainforest, linked to major financial institutions including BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager.
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The forests of Papua New Guinea perform a range of vital functions, supporting communities, ecosystems and the planet as a whole. Despite this, they remain under threat from unsustainable and often illegal logging by foreign logging companies.
The value of Papua New Guinea’s forests
By Eddie Tanago, ACT NOW!
The Prime Minister must extend the government's ban on new logging permits to cover all types of logging consent in order for it to be effective.
The PM last week directed the PNG Forest Authority to stop issuing new permits and permit extensions so the government can meet its deadline of 2025 for an end to the export of unprocessed raw logs.
Illegal logging in Papua New Guinea represents a major money laundering threat as it generates very large illegal profits and it has a very high detrimental impact on the economy as well as the natural environment.
This is according to a money laundering and financing of terrorism risk assessment published by the Bank of Papua New Guinea in 2017.
A simple Flash Drive can be an effective education and awareness tool
Sia village in the Sohe District of Oro Province is a difficult place to reach from the outside.
With no road linking the community to the outside world, the only options are three hour dingy ride along the coast from the Provincial capital, Popondetta, and up the Mamba river, or a three to four day walk.
Keith Jackson | PNG Attitude
A report by Transparency International PNG (TIPNG) on how the Papua New Guinea government is meeting its obligations under the United Nations Convention against corruption has highlighted “a multitude of deficiencies hindering the successful implementation” of the Convention.
In summary the TIPNG report concludes that the PNG government has been only partially compliant with its obligations.
The proposed Frieda River mine complex showing the 123km2 that will be flooded to hold the mine waste rock and tailings and the scale of the mine pit itself. Photo: Panaust
The proposed Frieda River copper and gold mine is set to destroy the livelihoods of thousands of local people who currently depend on small-scale alluvial mining for their jobs and income.
A logging truck drives past an unfinished kit house on New Hanover. Photo: Jason Roberts
In 2015, anthropogist Jason Roberts spent months living with the people of New Hanover, documenting their lives and the impacts of large-scale logging and land alientation.