Forest Crime

Government Has Failed Over Cancellation of Illegal SABL Leases

On 26 Jan, 2022 By ACTNOW

Nine years after a Commission of Inquiry exposed the huge illegal SABL land grab, government efforts to cancel the leases have completely failed.

Last week Lands Minister, John Rosso, told Parliament that of seventy SABL leases recommended to be be cancelled only twenty have so far been rescinded.

Just twenty leases cancelled over a nine year period is frankly pathetic.

Governor rails against ‘bioterrorists,’ ‘carbon cowboys’ destroying PNG’s forests

On 08 Dec, 2021 By ACTNOW

Source: Mongabay / Rachel Donald (7 December 2021)

How commercial banks have supported PNG’s destructive logging boom

On 01 Dec, 2021 By ACTNOW

Commercial banks operating in Papua New Guinea have given at least K300 million (AU$144 million) in available credit, since 2000, to the country’s five largest exporters of tropical logs, according to a new report, The Money Behind the Chainsaws, from Act Now! and Jubilee Australia Research Centre.

The Money Behind the Chainsaws

Civil Society Petitions Parliament to Stop Illegal Logging

On 26 Nov, 2021 By ACTNOW

The following petition was presented on the floor of Parliament by the Hon. Gary Juffa, Governor for Oro Province on November 24, 2021

TO THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED

The humble petition of the civil societies of Papua New Guinea, respectively showeth;

Illegality and human rights abuses in PNG’s logging industry

On 19 Oct, 2021 By ACTNOW

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Human rights abuses and bribery taint palm oil produced in Papua New Guinea

On 08 Oct, 2021 By ACTNOW

Global Witness

A two-year investigation shines a light on palm oil in Papua New Guinea, the notorious industry’s newest frontier. It reveals a litany of human rights abuses and the wide-scale destruction of tens of thousands of hectares of climate-critical rainforest, linked to major financial institutions including BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager.

Logging and Forest Loss in Papua New Guinea

On 28 Sep, 2021 By ACTNOW

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The forests of Papua New Guinea perform a range of vital functions, supporting communities, ecosystems and the planet as a whole. Despite this, they remain under threat from unsustainable and often illegal logging by foreign logging companies.

The value of Papua New Guinea’s forests

Prime Minister must extend ban on new logging permits

On 21 Sep, 2021 By ACTNOW

By Eddie Tanago, ACT NOW!

The Prime Minister must extend the government's ban on new logging permits to cover all types of logging consent in order for it to be effective.

The PM last week directed the PNG Forest Authority to stop issuing new permits and permit extensions so the government can meet its deadline of 2025 for an end to the export of unprocessed raw logs.

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