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Maximising Value: Can PNG finally end the export of unprocessed tropical logs?

On 09 May, 2022 By ACTNOW

Papua New Guinea’s tropical rainforests have enormous local, national and international importance but are under threat from a variety of sources including commercial logging.

The government has committed to drastically reduce the rate of commercial logging and increase financial returns from downstream processing by ending the export of unprocessed round logs by 2025, but a new research paper by ACT NOW shows there are serious questions over whether this target will be achieved.

NGOs welcome progress on ending financing of logging

On 20 Apr, 2022 By ACTNOW

Research and advocacy organisations Act Now! and Jubilee Australia Research Centre have welcomed a report that the bank accounts of 30 logging companies operating in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have been closed.

NGOs Welcome Progress On Ending Financing Of Logging

On 20 Apr, 2022 By ACTNOW

Tuvalu reverses controversial decision to sponsor seabed mining

On 19 Apr, 2022 By ACTNOW

Source: ABC/PACNEWS

Tuvalu’s government has rescinded its support to explore deep sea mining in the country’s waters.

The government had sponsored mining firm Circular Metals Tuvalu last December to apply for an exploration permit with the International Seabed Authority.

But Foreign Minister Simon Kofe said the government has now reversed the sponsorship.

Govt claims on reducing export logging don’t stack up

On 16 Feb, 2022 By ACTNOW

Updated 18 March 2022 with the details of four further new log export operations that started in December 2021

Government claims that it has stopped issuing new log export licences to foreign owned logging companies are not borne out by the evidence, says community advocacy organisation ACT NOW!

“There are ~~sixteen~~ twenty new foreign operated log export operations that have started up since 2020, according to the government’s own log export data”, says ACT NOW! Campaign Manager Eddie Tanago.

Govt claims on reducing export logging don’t stack up

On 16 Feb, 2022 By ACTNOW

Updated 18 March 2022 with the details of four further new log export operations that started in December 2021

Government claims that it has stopped issuing new log export licences to foreign owned logging companies are not borne out by the evidence.

There are twenty new foreign-operated log export operations that have started up since 2020, according to the government’s own log export data.

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

On 09 Dec, 2021 By ACTNOW

Source: PROJECT SEPIK

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

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.

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

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