Action Alert: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Logging Violence and Corruption Flare in Ramu, Madang?s Mighty Rainforests
Local landowner initiated court case has shut down logging for two months. The PNG Forest Authority's review of the granting of the right to log to notorious Rimbunan Hijau [search] of Malaysia in Ramu River valley expected soon. Industry and corrupt government officials pulling out all stops to re-grant permit to this violent and corrupt criminal-enterprise. Massive cash payments and brutal violence ? to intimidate communities resisting logging ? is rife. Yet local protest to logging continues to intensify in Madang [search], as do calls to end all industrial primary rainforest logging in PNG.
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this has to STOP
This is manupilating,corruption and depriving of human rights
it has to stop!!!people of Madang and so called NGO`s wake up...before it`s too late...
Posted by: valentine kodi | February 9, 2010 6:53 PM
Protect the forests for you future...
Posted by: Bob Eck | February 10, 2010 5:11 AM
Most of the worlds natural forest has already been wiped-out. This logging has to stop. We have to leave some of the natural world for future generations.
Posted by: Mohammed Qayyum | June 10, 2010 11:03 PM