Picture: Eddie Paine Tanago, ACTNOW and Paul Pavol, Land owner, Pomio

Source: Radio New Zealand

A Papua New Guinea NGO is accusing Australia of being the largest beneficiary of illegal logging and exploitation of PNG's rainforests.

Act Now's comments come as Australia prepares to host an Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit in Sydney this week.

Australia is the largest single beneficiary of rampant and unsustainable logging and land grabbing in Papua New Guinea, according to leading community activist group, ACT NOW!

Source: PNG Exposed

Picture: PANG Coordinator Maureen Penjueli

Source: PNG Blogs

Source: Post Courier 

ORO Governor Gary Juffa has appealed to police to arrest and charge those who broke into the provincial assembly building last week in Popondetta.

A formal complaint has been laid with the police and only the accomplices of self-proclaimed governor David Arore have been arrested, said the Regional MP as the political crisis in his province entered its second week.

Source: PNG Mine Watch

Source: PNG Mine Watch

On October 28, 2014, hundreds of Porgerans marched onto Barrick Gold’s Porgera mine site to demand benefits that rightfully belong to the Porgera Special Mining Lease (SML) Landowners.

Source: Post Courier

Letter of the Day

SABL stands for Special Purpose Agriculture Business Lease.

The acronym SABL speaks for itself.

Any educated person would reason, without having any prior knowledge of the concept, that such a lease has something to do with agriculture, and not forestry.

MEDIA STATEMENT

PURPORTED “VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE” AGAINST HON.GARRY JUFFA, MP                 GOVERNOR FOR ORO PROVINCE

As the Minister responsible for Provincial Governments and Local-level Government matters, I am concern about the events and a purported vote of no confidence against Hon. Garry Juffa MP, Governor for Oro Province by disgruntled faction of the Provincial Assembly Members.