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Sepik River communities file human rights complaint against PanAust over proposed Gold-Copper mine.

Source: PROJECT SEPIK

Sepik River communities file human rights complaints against Australian company PanAust over its proposed Gold-Copper mine.

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

Source: Mongabay Rachel Donald  (7 December 2021)

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How commercial banks have supported PNG’s destructive logging boom

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. 

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New research reveals how commercial banks have supported PNG’s destructive logging boom

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, a new report by Act Now! and Jubilee Australia Research Centre has revealed. 

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Civil Society Petitions Parliament to Stop Illegal Logging

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;

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Student Association Gets Awareness Support from ACT NOW!

(Photo courtesy: UPNG Abau Student Association)

It is a great pleasure as an organization to be part of the incredible initiative by the Abau Student Association group from the University of Papua New Guinea this year on their  Advocacy Year-End Awareness Trip.

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True Zero Emission needed: Groups

NEWS | Nogat Coal

Loop PNG

The Nogat Coal Alliance and the Evangelical Luthern Church of PNG are calling on Mayur Resource to halt its coal plans for PNG. 

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