Wafi-Golpu Special Mining Lease 10
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 08/12/2022 - 13:14
By Land Advocate
Customary Land
Wafi-Golpu Pipeline Corridor
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 01/12/2022 - 16:35
By Customary Land Advocate
The Wafi-Golpu Pipeline corridor will run from the mine site in the mountains of Wampar Local Level Government (LLG) area right through to Lae City and then onto the coastline of Wagang village in Ahi LLG area and finally into the sea of the Huon Gulf. Along the way this pipeline will run through mostly customary lands of the peoples of Wampar and Ahi LLG areas, and only a small portion will run on state land.
Settlers Buying Off Customary Lands for Peanuts
Submitted by ACTNOW on Mon, 28/11/2022 - 16:17
By Customary Land Advocate
Due to the lack of affordable housing in urban areas, especially in the larger cities of Lae and Port Moresby, working class people are moving away to the periphery of these two cities to have access to cheap land where they can live and work without having to pay for rented accommodation. People in overcrowded and crime-infested squatter settlements in these two cities are also moving away to the periphery of the two cities to resettle and have a new lease of life.
Carbon trading will not stop global warming but will entrench global inequality
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 09/11/2022 - 12:50
Carbon trading, which is being heavily promoted in Papua New Guinea, will not help reduce global warming and instead risks implicating indigenous communities in the obsessive overconsumption in wealthier countries that is destroying the planet.
Carbon trading is just one more example of greenwashing being used by big corporations and foreign governments to cover up their failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions and their ongoing destruction of the natural environment.
Carbon trading will not stop global warming but will entrench global inequality
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 09/11/2022 - 09:51Carbon trading, which is being heavily promoted in Papua New Guinea, will not help reduce global warming and instead risks implicating indigenous communities in the obsessive overconsumption in wealthier countries that is destroying the planet, says local community advocacy group ACT NOW!
Tavolo community granted injunction against FCA logging
Submitted by ACTNOW on Fri, 21/10/2022 - 16:08
The Tavolo Community Conservation Association from East New Britain have won a major victory against a Malaysian logging company that has been threatening to log their customary forests.
The National Court has granted the Association a temporary injunction suspending a Forest Clearance Authority granted to Mekar (PNG) Limited by the PNG Forest Authority and stopping any large-scale conversion of forest to agriculture or other land use.
THE NEW TIMBER BARONS: The Companies Logging the Forest of Papua New Guinea
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 06/10/2022 - 09:57
Nearly 70% of Papua New Guinea’s round log exports between 2019 and 2021 were concentrated in the hands of just ten groups of companies, all with strong links to Malaysia, according to new research by Act Now! and Jubilee Australia Research Centre.