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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.

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;

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