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The following petition was presented on the floor of Parliament by the Hon. Gary Juffa, Governor for Oro Province on November 24, 2021

TO THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED

The humble petition of the civil societies of Papua New Guinea, respectively showeth;

The petition from the proposed Torricelli Mountain Range Conservation Area landowners tabled earlier in this Parliament sitting, highlights one example of the many severe logging issues and related challenges we continue to have in our country. Problems range from questionable resources concession allocations, illegally issued Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABLs