SABL

PM has plenty of excuses but still no action on unlawful SABL leases

Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 13/01/2016 - 14:23

The Prime Minister is again giving excuses why the SABL leases have not been cancelled but does not really explain why it has taken so long or why the illegal logging is being allowed to continue...

PM explains delay in SABL process

Source: Post Courier

By GORETHY KENNETH

Submission to the United Nations for Papua New Guinea's Universal Periodic Review

Submitted by ACTNOW on Sat, 21/11/2015 - 18:59

In April next year Papua New Guinea will appear before the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva to explain its human rights record.

ACT NOW! has made a submission to the UN that focuses on the PNG government's very poor record on land grabbing, illegal logging and experimental seabed mining.

Land grabbing a threat to national security

Submitted by ACTNOW on Mon, 16/11/2015 - 00:00

Melanesians have great respect for our land. it is the core of our livelihood. Selling of land in our communities has caused rural-urban drift, many people have become displaced and cannot maintain a subsistant living becuase there is no land to cultivate. A great number of people have lost their land to SABL schemes and land grabbing, thus have come town to earn a monetary livelihood. Question is, who is (really) causing this problem?

Activists issues warning about PNG forests

Submitted by ACTNOW on Fri, 13/11/2015 - 00:00

An environmental and social activist says the governments of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia cannot claim to be serious about climate change impacts when they continue to allow rampant forest clearance across New Guinea.

Source: Radio New Zealand

An environmental and social activist says the destruction wrought upon New Guinea's forests by the logging industry typifies the way so-called development works in PNG.

PNG and Indonesia in firing line over loss of forests

Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 12/11/2015 - 17:10

Harvested logs in PNG. Photo credit: RNZ

Source: Radio New Zealand

A Papua New Guinea environmental and social activist has delivered a scathing assessment of stewardship of the country's forest resources by its politicians.

Dorothy Tekwie says PNG's government cannot claim to be serious about climate change impacts when it continues to allow unsustainable logging.