Customary Land
Four Ways Logging Companies Defraud PNG
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 02/06/2021 - 00:00
Time to Jail Timber Crooks and to Nationalise Assets
Submitted by ACTNOW on Mon, 17/05/2021 - 10:32
IRC adds more financial crimes to logging companies’ charge sheet
Submitted by ACTNOW on Tue, 11/05/2021 - 09:36
Papua New Guinea’s Internal Revenue Commission says the logging industry is “one of the most delinquent sectors insofar as tax compliance is concerned“.
The logging companies are guilty of “egregious” transfer pricing, “entrenched” tax evasion and “deceptive behaviour” says the IRC (see the full IRC statements below).
TV advert celebrates importance of customary land
Submitted by ACTNOW on Tue, 04/05/2021 - 11:06The value and importance of customary land in supporting the lives and livelihoods of most Papua New Guinean’s is being celebrated in a new television advertising campaign launched by ACT NOW!
SABL decisions beginning to really bite local communities
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 22/04/2021 - 14:05
An arieal view of forest clearance for oil palm planting in West Pomio
By Paul Pavol
The people of West Pomio in East New Britain Province lost most of their land and forest under the controversial, government-backed, Special Agriculture Business Lease scheme.
No benefits from 50 years of logging in Madang
Submitted by ACTNOW on Mon, 19/04/2021 - 10:58By Rex Sos
Heavy logging activity has been going on in Madang Province for the last 50 years.
Some 500,000 hectares of forest have been harvested and unique eco systems destroyed under the name of logging.
Seeking Expressions of Interest
Submitted by ACTNOW on Tue, 05/01/2021 - 00:00ACT NOW has recently received funding to expand its work in Papua New Guinea with a particular focus on the management of forest resources.
We are therefore seeking expressions of interest from well qualified and experienced practitioners and organisations interested in providing services in the following five areas:
- International stakeholder engagement;
- Research coordination;
- Digital services;
- Project management; and
- Investigative reserach.
Civil Society Presentation on the Forestry Act Review
Submitted by ACTNOW on Fri, 06/11/2020 - 10:08
1. The Forestry Act 1991 is 30 years old and has been weakened by many amendments.
2. Very limited implementation: most operations are old concession types - Timber Rights Purchase (TRP) / Local Forest Area (LFA).
3. Under the Act our forest resource has been depleted; unsustainable harvests + extensive forest clearance.
4. Act is completely outdated as the national and international context has changed: