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PNG's rainforest in danger; illegal logging crisis fuel human rights abuses and threaten biodiversity

On 04 Nov, 2024 By ACTNOW

Papua New Guinea’s rainforests in danger; illegal logging crises fuel human rights abuses and threaten biodiversity

Raggian Bird-of-Paradise in Varirata Park, PNG

Shimali Chauhan | Down to Earth

Bewani clans seek palm oil probe

On 18 Oct, 2024 By ACTNOW

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 must act to stop widespread illegal logging

On 02 Oct, 2024 By Eddie Tanago

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.

Prime Minster must act to stop widespread illegal logging

On 02 Oct, 2024 By ACTNOW

Yet, community advocacy group ACT NOW says his government is doing nothing to stop widespread illegal logging and in particular the abuse of agricultural clearing licences.

Laundering of tropical timber: Time to investigate forestry officials

On 18 Sep, 2024 By ACTNOW

Anti-money laundering laws don't just apply to the financial proceeds of crime; the laws apply equally to any property that is generated through criminal behaviour, including illegally felled timber.

Loani FCA logging another bogus agriculture project?

On 21 Aug, 2024 By ACTNOW

A new logging operation in Milne Bay Province could be yet another example of a bogus agriculture project being used as cover for a large-scale forest grab.

The new logging operation began on Sideia Island earlier this year as part of the Loani Bwanabwana Integrated Agro-Forestry Project.

Operated by a Malaysian logging company with no previous agriculture experience, the project is promising 36,700 hectares of new agriculture planting, including balsa, cocoa, vanilla and rice.

Loani Bwanabwana Forest Clearance: Another Bogus Agriculture Project?

On 21 Aug, 2024 By ACTNOW

Community advocacy group ACT NOW! says a new logging operation in Milne Bay Province could be yet another example of a bogus agriculture project being used as cover for a large-scale forest grab.

The new logging operation began on Sideia Island earlier this year as part of the Loani Bwanabwana Integrated Agro-Forestry Project.

Operated by a Malaysian logging company with no previous agriculture experience, the project is promising 36,700 hectares of new agriculture planting, including balsa, cocoa, vanilla and rice.

Loani Forest Clearance: Another Bogus Agriculture Project?

Logging on Sideia: Absolutely no political will

On 01 Aug, 2024 By ACTNOW

David Mitchel / Eco Custodian Advocates

The idea of a tropical log export ban in PNG started in the 1990s with fifteen specific timber species.

Again in 2010 the Forest Minister Nama indicated that round logs exports to cease, in 2018 the then Prime Minister, O’Neil said no round log export by 2020, which PM Marape reiterated in 2019 and yet another Forest Minster Tomuriesa in 2020 said a ban on round log export by 2025.

Now in 2024 PNG is the greatest tropical round log exporter in the world with Malaysia’s exports decreasing, now second.

Central Cement Project threatening lives and livelihoods

On 22 Jul, 2024 By ACTNOW

Video: 'No Limestone' is the chant as young people protest against the proposed commercial limestone and cement project on their island.

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