Forest Crime

Call for charges to be dropped against Campaign Manager

On 20 Dec, 2024 By ACTNOW

Ban on new Forest Clearing Authorities continues

On 18 Dec, 2024 By ACTNOW

Image: Part of a Public Notice published in the Post Courier newspaper by the PNG Forest Authority on 29 November, 2024.

The PNG Forest Authority has recently confirmed a moratorium on issuing new Forest Clearing Authority licences is still in force while it completes its audit of existing FCA projects.

ACT NOW Campaign Manager charged with cybercrime

On 13 Dec, 2024 By ACTNOW

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.

ACT NOW Campaign Manager charged with cybercrime

On 13 Dec, 2024 By ACTNOW

Mr Tanago’s arrest came after a complaint from the PNGFA that ACT NOW had shared a social media post published by a radio company advertising a talkback show that was to feature the Forest Authority and which included an image of the MD, allegedly without his consent.

Illegal logging a major threat to PNG economy

On 02 Dec, 2024 By ACTNOW

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.

Forest Authority has no answer to allegations of widespread illegal logging

On 27 Nov, 2024 By ACTNOW

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.

Listen here to the PNGFA officers on FM100:

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Seminar demands action on FCA Forest Grab

On 06 Nov, 2024 By ACTNOW

Civil society organisations and community representatives have demanded government action on the widespread abuse of Forest Clearing Authorities (FCA).

Public Seminar demands action on FCA Forest Grab

On 06 Nov, 2024 By ACTNOW

Civil society organisations and community representatives have gathered in Port Moresby to demand government action on the widespread abuse of Forest Clearing Authorities (FCA).

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

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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.

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