Tag: Logging
Australian fight to protect koala habitats in northern NSW heats up
The battle to stop the destruction in Australia of critical koala habitats in state forests in Northern NSW has escalated in recent weeks. Wendy...
Papuan media groups condemn police repression over mangrove forest destruction reporting
Jubi News
Media organisations in Papua -- including the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) of Jayapura City, the Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) of Papua and...
Blinken, Daki sign controversial US-PNG defence pact after day of protests
The National, Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea yesterday intialled a defence cooperation agreement with the United States amid day-long protests against the signing by university...
New sighting of endemic bird signals need to stop logging in...
By Priestley Habru in Honiara
Solomon Islands’ environmental authorities have highlighted the need to protect the forests from logging following a recent report on new...
Rebecca Kuku: PNG’s Gulf Province, ignored for too long but now...
By Rebecca Kuku in Kerema
Gulf Province is only six hours away from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capital city, and is one of the...
Juffa welcomes inter agency probe with logging spot checks in Oro
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Oro Governor Gary Juffa has welcomed a joint investigations team, led by Papua New Guinea's Office of Immigrations and Citizenship Authority,...
Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners
COMMENTARY: By Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
Since the late 1980s, the logging industry has dominated the Solomon Islands economy.
For nearly three decades, it has accounted for about...
PNG court overturns loggers ban on custom landowners entering own land
By Scott Waide in Lae
A group of customary landowners in Papua New Guinea has regained access to their land following a significant legal victory...
Governor Juffa, police crack down on PNG’s Collingwood Bay illegal logging
By Scott Waide in Port Moresby
Over the course of the past month, Oro Governor Gary Juffa has been at the forefront of a crackdown...
Gary Juffa: How we can stop criminal cartels stealing our PNG...
OPINION: By Gary Juffa
In the ongoing saga of stopping illegal logging in Papua New Guinea's Oro province, our facts reveal that the PNG Forest...
Juffa blasts PNG resources ‘sell out’ but tells of Managalas hope
Rapacious logging cartels feature in PNG's Northern Province Governor Gary Juffa's speech. Video: Café Pacific
By David Robie at Te Papa
Northern Province Governor Gary Juffa...
US, Chinese companies linked to PNG land theft, deforestation, says report
Landowner-turned activist Paul Pavol talks about the widespread land theft and deforestation occurring in Papua New Guinea at the hands of foreign companies. Video:...