illegal logging

Logs don't lie: foreign corporations are pillaging Papua New Guinea

On 10 Jan, 2012 By rait man With 1 Comments

By Hannah Brooks, VICE media

Papua New Guinea is currently experiencing what may be the most brazenly illegal land grab since its colonial days. Foreign corporations—specifically, logging companies—are allegedly falsifying signatures, paying off police, and lying to the government about their intentions to cut down every tree in the country.  

Transparency International 'part of the corruption problem'

On 18 Nov, 2011 By rait man

From the PNG Exposed blog

Transparency International, which claims to be global watchdog on corruption, is in fact part of the corruption problem. TI misdirects attention away from many of the causes, beneficiaries and potential solutions to the theft of public monies.

TI labels countries like Papua New Guinea (currently ranked 154 out of 178 countries) as among the most corrupt while countries like Australia (currently ranked 8th) are lauded as among the least corrupt.

But scratch beneath the surface and what do we find?

The destruction of livelihoods

On 27 Oct, 2011 By rait man

PNG forest campaigner appeals to the O’Neil-Namah Government to address land grabbing in the country and help put a stop to it . . .

By Sam Moko

ACT NOW! email action calling for suspension of logging tops 2,000

On 27 Oct, 2011 By Effrey

More than 2,000 emails have been sent to the government over the last five days calling for a suspension of logging within disputed Special Agriculture lease areas.

“This response to is the biggest we have ever seen to an on-line petition”, says Effrey Dademo, Program Manager for ACT NOW! “People from all over the world have been getting involved”.

Greenpeace blockades logging ship off PNG

On 24 Oct, 2011 By Tim

By Eoin Blackwell, AAP

Greenpeace has blockaded a Chinese ship carrying what the environmental group says are illegally-acquired logs from the Papua New Guinean island of New Britain.

The Chinese vessel, the Fu Tian, is docked in a lagoon near the village of West Pomio, where as many as 200 landowners have gathered to protest the logging activities of Malaysian owned company Rimbunan Hijau (RH) and its subsidiary, Gilford Limited.

Papua New Guinea faces logging threat

On 22 Oct, 2011 By rait man

By Dr Craig Thorburn*

Help stop an environmental and human rights disaster

On 21 Oct, 2011 By Effrey With 1 Comments

Your help is needed to STOP an environmental and human rights DISASTER.

Two million hectares of forest are being clear-felled within Special-purpose agriculture lease areas in PNG despite gowing evidence the leases and the logging are totally illegal and cause irreversible environmental damage.

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