Image: Campaign Manager Eddie Tanago at a recent Global Dialogue meeting at the INTERPOL headquarters in Singapore
ACT NOW Campaign Manager Eddie Tanago has been charged by police under the Cybercrime Code Act for allegedly publishing defamatory remarks on social media about the Managing Director of the PNG Forest Authority.
The 2025 National Government budget has seen an increased of budget allocation for district support improvement program (DSIP).
This is despite the fact that DDAs are lacking transparency and accountability in their operations and expenditure.
ACT NOW! analysis has shown that there is lack of DDA contact details, DDAs lack proper development plans and bad records of acquitting funds.
Papua New Guinea is at risk of international sanction for its failure to control money laundering risks with major negative impacts on business and the economy.
According to the Bank of Papua New Guinea, the country could be grey-listed if it fails to meet the recommendations in an assessment report from the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering.
Three senior officers from the PNG Forest Authority have failed to provide any answer to allegations of widespread illegal logging during a 40 minute appearance on live radio.
Civil society organisations and community representatives have demanded government action on the widespread abuse of Forest Clearing Authorities (FCA).
Raggian Bird-of-Paradise in Varirata Park, PNG
Shimali Chauhan | Down to Earth
PHOTO: This area in Bewani, north-west PNG, was logged under a Special Agricultural Business Lease. (ABC: Eric Tlozek)
Reprinted from The National, 17 October 2024
WE, the landowners of Portion 199 of Bewani in Vanimo-Green, West Sepik, want the provincial and national authorities to investigate what we see as illegal land-grabbing by a palm oil developer.
Prime Minister James Marape has spoken of the importance of preserving Papua New Guinea’s tropical rainforest in a meeting with the United Nations General Secretary and in his address to the UN General Assembly last Friday
Yet, his government is doing nothing to stop widespread illegal logging and in particular the abuse of agricultural clearing licences.
Marape has described PNG’s rainforests as vital to PNG and to the global community, yet PNG is the world’s largest exporter of tropical logs and most of the logging is illegal and unsustainable.
While the government has been dramatically increasing the amount of funding pumped directly into each District, there is an appalling lack of transparency about how those public funds are being used.