CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Sunday, May 24, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • The documentary Pesta Babi has stirred discussions about Papuan development and the impact of deforestation policies
      Asia Report

      Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’

      A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home
      Asia Report

      Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims…

      New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu
      Crime

      Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade…

      Australian Gaza flotilla activist Zack Schofield
      Asia Report

      ‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture

      "And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades
      Analysis

      Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they…

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Home Forests

Forests

7 days popular
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
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

APR editor -
March 8, 2026
Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)
Forests

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

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

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?

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

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

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...

APR editor -
January 6, 2026
0
Rioting in Kukum Highway, Honiara,
Forests

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

APR editor -
November 25, 2021
0
A logging ship, Turubu Bay, East Sepik
Forests

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

APR editor -
May 28, 2025
0
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...

APR editor -
March 2, 2025
0
Forests

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

Pacific Media Watch -
February 13, 2025
0
"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...

APR editor -
July 24, 2024
0
Papuan editor and publisher Victor Mambor
Forests

Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports

David Robie -
February 5, 2023
0
twin catastrophic threats of climate change and a pandemic
Forests

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

APR editor -
August 7, 2021
0
Forests

Greenpeace blasts palm oil industry deforestation in West Papua

APR editor -
May 1, 2018
0
Killed environmental journalist Chhoeung Chheng
Forests

RSF condemns assassination of Cambodian environmental journalist

Pacific Media Watch -
December 10, 2024
0
ULMWP's Benny Wenda
Forests

West Papuan leader praises People’s Tribunal ruling as proof of ‘need...

APR editor -
December 10, 2024
0
Logging piles on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea
Forests

Campaigners call on PNG govt to act over destructive logging

APR editor -
September 19, 2023
0
Forests

Journalist ‘hauled in’ for police questioning at Malaysia land protest

Pacific Media Watch -
August 2, 2019
0
Fiji protesters supporting decolonisation of West Papua, Kanaky - and Palestine
Forests

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

APR editor -
December 2, 2024
0
The CIVICUS Monitor report
Forests

Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report

APR editor -
November 10, 2021
0
Land clearing in West Papua region's Grime Nawa Valley, Jayapura Regency
Forests

Massive deforestation in West Papua – Greenpeace reveals loss of 641,400...

APR editor -
August 18, 2023
0
PNG Jackson Kiakari
Forests

Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise...

APR editor -
April 3, 2021
1
Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron
Forests

Macron keen on Varirata forest lookout for bilateral talks with PNG

APR editor -
July 28, 2023
0
video
Forests

US, Chinese companies linked to PNG land theft, deforestation, says report

Pacific Media Centre -
August 4, 2017
0
tree plantations that were established with government support after the devastation of Cyclone Bola
Forests

Cyclone Gabrielle: Time to invest in natives in response to devastating...

APR editor -
February 22, 2023
0
Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau
Forests

‘Big picture vision’ conversations missing in Pacific, says Aqorau

APR editor -
March 29, 2023
0
Forests

Governor Juffa, police crack down on PNG’s Collingwood Bay illegal logging

Pacific Media Centre -
March 20, 2018
0
123Page 1 of 3

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

Load more

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

Load more

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

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

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

New Caledonia’s special electoral card for Congress and provincial elections
Decolonisation

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll

Al Jazeera journalist Tohid Asadi
Asia Report

Strait of Hormuz ‘open’ except for enemies, as new Iran insurance...

An Auckland Writers' Festival vigil with Marika (left) and Kathy
Asia Report

Palestine on patrol – how a flag-dress caused a writers’ stir...

Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gloating as security forces mistreat the Global Sumud Flotilla captives
Asia Report

Peace Action demands NZ summon Israeli ambassador over brutal action against...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The documentary Pesta Babi has stirred discussions about Papuan development and the impact of deforestation policies
Asia Report

Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’

A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home
Asia Report

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu
Crime

Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade...

Australian Gaza flotilla activist Zack Schofield
Asia Report

‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture

Load more

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

A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home
Asia Report

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu
Crime

Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade...

Australian Gaza flotilla activist Zack Schofield
Asia Report

‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture

"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades
Analysis

Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...

Editor's Picks

The documentary Pesta Babi has stirred discussions about Papuan development and the impact of deforestation policies

Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’

May 24, 2026
A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

May 23, 2026
New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu

Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade...

May 23, 2026
Australian Gaza flotilla activist Zack Schofield

‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture

May 23, 2026
"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades

Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...

May 23, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

"The message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out."

Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

May 20, 2026
"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

May 18, 2026
An Auckland Writers' Festival vigil with Marika (left) and Kathy

Palestine on patrol – how a flag-dress caused a writers’ stir...

May 17, 2026
New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu

Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade...

May 23, 2026
Papua's Tom Beanal

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

May 18, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8279
  • Politics6075
  • Human Rights4733
  • Syndicate4595
  • Global4007
  • New Zealand3564
  • Indigenous2963
  • RNZ Pacific2590
  • Media2297
  • Pacific Media Watch2027
  • Asia Report2010
  • Democracy1944
  • Security1913
  • Military1770
  • Justice1710
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz