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Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)

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

March 13, 2026

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

Forests

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena

Forests

Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?

Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands

Forests

Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum weekend

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

Forests

Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact

“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film

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West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco

Pacific Media Watch -

February 24, 2026

Forests

Greenpeace blasts palm oil industry deforestation in West Papua

May 1, 2018

Killed environmental journalist Chhoeung Chheng

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RSF condemns assassination of Cambodian environmental journalist

Pacific Media Watch -

December 10, 2024

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Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 13, 2025

"All Eyes on Papua" . . . a campaign against Indonesian exploitation of Papuan rainforests

Forests

Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s...

July 24, 2024

Fiji protesters supporting decolonisation of West Papua, Kanaky - and Palestine

Forests

Wenda calls for West Papuan unity in the face of Jakarta’s...

December 2, 2024

The aftermath of Indonesian forces burning temporary shelters in the Star Mountains, West Papua

Forests

Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan...

March 2, 2025

West Papuan resistance over logging and mining projects

Forests

West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 12, 2024

twin catastrophic threats of climate change and a pandemic

Forests

Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than covid....

August 7, 2021

Rioting in Kukum Highway, Honiara,

Forests

Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion

November 25, 2021

A logging ship, Turubu Bay, East Sepik

Forests

Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’

May 28, 2025

Forests

PNG’s forests authority chief granted another five years at helm

May 23, 2017

James Marape

Forests

Scott Waide: Open letter to PM James Marape: Treat our people fairly

January 2, 2021

Logging piles on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea

Forests

Campaigners call on PNG govt to act over destructive logging

September 19, 2023

Traditional landowners in Rempang pictured after clashing with Indonesian security forces

Forests

Indigenous rights group highlights rise in land grabs under Jokowi’s watch

September 21, 2023

Forests

Indonesia’s development dilemmas – a green info gap and budget pressure

November 15, 2017

The social value of forestry was considered inefficient and wasteful

Forests

Cyclone Gabrielle triggers more destructive forestry ‘slash’ – NZ must change...

February 18, 2023

Forests

To conserve West Papua, start with land rights and forget past...

October 10, 2018

Forests

Australian fight to protect koala habitats in northern NSW heats up

August 26, 2023

Isabel Premier Rhoda Sikilabu

Forests

First female premier of a Solomons province pleads for NZ covid...

April 4, 2022

Forests

Fred Wesley: Our environment message needs to be in every corner...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 5, 2017

Nicky Hager (left) with his publisher Robbie Burton

Forests

A publisher writes on ‘the terror’ of publishing Nicky Hager

Pacific Media Watch -

September 22, 2022

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Ousted Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele ousted after just over two years...

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

Analysis

After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

Defiant Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (left) and humbled US President Donald Trump

Analysis

Iran war almost over . . . and the end...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion

EDITOR'S PICKS

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Democracy

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

Decolonisation

New Caledonia provincial elections set for June but voter roll changes...

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Democracy

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

Decolonisation

New Caledonia provincial elections set for June but voter roll changes...