Transparency Gap: DDA contact details and future challenges
Submitted by ACTNOW on Tue, 12/11/2024 - 15:11
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Seminar demands action on FCA Forest Grab
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 06/11/2024 - 05:47
Civil society organisations and community representatives have demanded government action on the widespread abuse of Forest Clearing Authorities (FCA).
PNG's rainforest in danger; illegal logging crisis fuel human rights abuses and threaten biodiversity
Submitted by ACTNOW on Mon, 04/11/2024 - 10:26
Raggian Bird-of-Paradise in Varirata Park, PNG
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Bewani clans seek palm oil probe
Submitted by ACTNOW on Fri, 18/10/2024 - 13:47
PHOTO: This area in Bewani, north-west PNG, was logged under a Special Agricultural Business Lease. (ABC: Eric Tlozek)
Reprinted from The National, 17 October 2024
WE, the landowners of Portion 199 of Bewani in Vanimo-Green, West Sepik, want the provincial and national authorities to investigate what we see as illegal land-grabbing by a palm oil developer.
Appalling lack of transparency as majority of Districts fail to submit financial acquittals
Submitted by ACTNOW on Tue, 24/09/2024 - 11:31
While the government has been dramatically increasing the amount of funding pumped directly into each District, there is an appalling lack of transparency about how those public funds are being used.
PNG leaders struggle to monitor deep-sea mining activities
Submitted by ACTNOW on Mon, 23/09/2024 - 06:22PSB News Hour, 19 Sept 2024
Locals concerned over deep-sea mining’s impact
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 19/09/2024 - 13:13PBS News Hour - 18 Sept 2024
Laundering of tropical timber: Time to investigate forestry officials
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 18/09/2024 - 09:18
Anti-money laundering laws don't just apply to the financial proceeds of crime; the laws apply equally to any property that is generated through criminal behaviour, including illegally felled timber.
Loani FCA logging another bogus agriculture project?
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 21/08/2024 - 09:27
A new logging operation in Milne Bay Province could be yet another example of a bogus agriculture project being used as cover for a large-scale forest grab.
The new logging operation began on Sideia Island earlier this year as part of the Loani Bwanabwana Integrated Agro-Forestry Project.
Operated by a Malaysian logging company with no previous agriculture experience, the project is promising 36,700 hectares of new agriculture planting, including balsa, cocoa, vanilla and rice.
Logging on Sideia: Absolutely no political will
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 01/08/2024 - 17:41David Mitchel / Eco Custodian Advocates
The idea of a tropical log export ban in PNG started in the 1990s with fifteen specific timber species.
Again in 2010 the Forest Minister Nama indicated that round logs exports to cease, in 2018 the then Prime Minister, O’Neil said no round log export by 2020, which PM Marape reiterated in 2019 and yet another Forest Minster Tomuriesa in 2020 said a ban on round log export by 2025.
Now in 2024 PNG is the greatest tropical round log exporter in the world with Malaysia’s exports decreasing, now second.