Customary Land

Campaign Launch: Celebrating and Defending Customary Land

On 17 Apr, 2018 By ACTNOW

ACT NOW! is today launching a new multi-media campaign 'Celebrating and Defending Customary Land’.

Why? Well, customary land is the most valuable and important asset available to most Papua New Guineans but its critical role is often misunderstood or misrepresented, particularly by outsiders.

Too few people realise customary land supports an economy estimated to be worth K40 billion a year, provides jobs and incomes for 3 million farmers and provides housing and a sense of community for more than 7 million people.

Trupela Veliu Blong Graun Bilong Yumi

Court dismisses orders restraining customary landowners from accessing their OWN land

On 03 Apr, 2018 By ACTNOW

Source: Scott Waide, My Land My Country

A group of customary landowners in Papua New Guinea have regained access to their land following a significant legal victory against supporters of a logging company.

Liquid Gold: Honey producers battling the odds

On 29 Mar, 2018 By ACTNOW

Image: Samuel Kuku, a beekeeper in the Eastern Highlands.

Source: Scott Waide / EMTV news

For more than 30 years, Tella Loie, worked in the public service as a honeybee specialist.

Logging company tries to gag forest activists

On 29 Mar, 2018 By ACTNOW

Lester Seri speaking at the SABL petition presentation in 2017

Two customary landowners have been served with a defamation lawsuit and a gagging order application by Malaysian owned logging company, Northern Forest Products Limited.

How we can stop criminal cartels stealing our forests

On 18 Mar, 2018 By ACTNOW

Police action squad dealing to illegal loggers in Oro Province. Image: Gary Juffa/FB

OPINION: By Gary Juffa

In the ongoing saga of stopping illegal logging in Papua New Guinea’s Oro province, our facts reveal that the PNG Forest Authority is failing our people.

SABL petition anniversary marks PNG's greatest ever scandal

On 21 Feb, 2018 By ACTNOW

February 21st is the first anniversary of the presentation of a 10,000 signature petition to the Department of Lands demanding the cancellation of the SABL leases. 2018, also marks five-years since the SABL Commission of Inquiry exposed the full extent of the illegal land grab, which affects more than 10% of the whole country.

SABL petition anniversary marks PNG's greatest ever scandal

On 21 Feb, 2018 By ACTNOW

Today is the first anniversary of the presentation of a 10,000 signature petition to the Department of Lands demanding the cancellation of the SABL leases. 2018, also marks five-years since the SABL Commission of Inquiry exposed the full extent of the illegal land grab, which affects more than 10% of the whole country.

But despite repeated promises from the O’Neill government to cancel the leases, stretching back to 2013, almost nothing has been done.

Message from Tavolo villagers: “We did not sign SABL”

On 20 Feb, 2018 By ACTNOW

Pepetua Marangona, Tavolo village, Pomio

Source: Scott Waide, My Land, My Country

Tavolo village in Pomio, East New Britain, is a place not many in Waigani know about.

How SABLs are disrupting communities and creating conflict

On 19 Feb, 2018 By ACTNOW

Source: Scott Waide, My Land, My Country

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