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‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast
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Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands
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“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film
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West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco

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Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right
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Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with...

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A logging ship, Turubu Bay, East Sepik
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Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’

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The aftermath of Indonesian forces burning temporary shelters in the Star Mountains, West Papua
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Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan...

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Killed environmental journalist Chhoeung Chheng
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RSF condemns assassination of Cambodian environmental journalist

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Fiji protesters supporting decolonisation of West Papua, Kanaky - and Palestine
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Wenda calls for West Papuan unity in the face of Jakarta’s...

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West Papuan resistance over logging and mining projects
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"All Eyes on Papua" . . . a campaign against Indonesian exploitation of Papuan rainforests
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Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s...

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Traditional landowners in Rempang pictured after clashing with Indonesian security forces
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Indigenous rights group highlights rise in land grabs under Jokowi’s watch

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Logging piles on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea
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Campaigners call on PNG govt to act over destructive logging

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Australian fight to protect koala habitats in northern NSW heats up

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Land clearing in West Papua region's Grime Nawa Valley, Jayapura Regency
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Massive deforestation in West Papua – Greenpeace reveals loss of 641,400...

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August 18, 2023
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Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron
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Macron keen on Varirata forest lookout for bilateral talks with PNG

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July 28, 2023
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Mangrove forest destruction in the Youtefa Bay Nature Park conservation area
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Papuan media groups condemn police repression over mangrove forest destruction reporting

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Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau
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‘Big picture vision’ conversations missing in Pacific, says Aqorau

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tree plantations that were established with government support after the devastation of Cyclone Bola
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The social value of forestry was considered inefficient and wasteful
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Papuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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