A new report on Papua New Guinea’s Special Agricultural and Business Leases, or SABLs, has detailed appalling human rights abuses suffered by indigenous landowners. Called the SABL Land Grab: Papua New Guinea’s Ongoing Human Rights Scandal the report highlights the devastating impacts of what has been a front for mostly illegal land grabs. PNG group Act Now!…
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Loggers still operating on PNG lease despite court ruling
Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific Journalistjohnny.blades@rnz.co.nz Papua New Guinea’s government has been accused of allowing loggers to operate illegally without landowner approval. This comes as PNG prepares to host an APEC meeting this weekend to discuss tackling illegal logging and the trade in illegal timber. PNG’s Supreme Court ruled in August 2016 that a Special Agriculture Business…
PNG and France: Bridging the gap through science
SCIENTISTS around the world, especially in France, are astonished by PNG’s large rainforest and its biodiversity, says France’s Ambassador Philippe Janvier-Kamiyama. Janvier-Kamiyama was speaking at Government House in Port Moresby after presenting his credentials to acting Governor-General and Speaker Job Pomat. “Your country has the third largest primary rainforest in the world, whose biodiversity is…
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