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Seminar demands action on FCA Forest Grab
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 06/11/2024 - 05:47
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
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 06/11/2024 - 04:54Civil 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
Submitted by ACTNOW on Mon, 04/11/2024 - 10:26
Raggian Bird-of-Paradise in Varirata Park, PNG
Shimali Chauhan | Down to Earth
Bewani clans seek palm oil probe
Submitted by ACTNOW on Fri, 18/10/2024 - 13:47
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.
Prime Minster must act to stop widespread illegal logging
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 02/10/2024 - 09:18Prime 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, community advocacy group ACT NOW says his government is doing nothing to stop widespread illegal logging and in particular the abuse of agricultural clearing licences.
Appalling lack of transparency as majority of Districts fail to submit financial acquittals
Submitted by ACTNOW on Tue, 24/09/2024 - 10:54While the government has been dramatically increasing the amount of funding pumped directly into each District, there is an appalling lack of transparency about how those public funds are being used.
As of July 2024, analysis of media reporting by community advocacy group ACT NOW reveals just 24 out of 96 Districts have lodged their financial acquittals for 2022 or 2023 and none of those acquittals are publicly available. This is despite each District now being given K20 million a year in service and infrastructure improvement grants.
PNG leaders struggle to monitor deep-sea mining activities
Submitted by ACTNOW on Mon, 23/09/2024 - 06:22PSB News Hour, 19 Sept 2024