Prime Minister must act to stop widespread illegal logging
Submitted by Eddie Tanago on Wed, 02/10/2024 - 11:29Prime 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.