Papua New Guinea

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2017

• Women landowners in Central Bougainville block the Panguna Mine pact

• Laundering illegal timber: How tropical wood stolen through land grab makes its way to the furniture store

2015

• West Papua Oil Palm Atlas: The companies behind the plantation explosion

• Relaunching destruction in Papua: monoculture agriculture project threatens indigenous lands and livelihoods

• Papua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry Industries

2014

• Victory over Malaysian land grabbers in Papua New Guinea

2010

• Papua New Guinea: Women in Oil Palm Association become empowered

• Papua New Guinea: Indigenous peoples lose their rights to investors

2009

• Video: Women raise their voices against tree plantations

• Papua New Guinea: World Bank promoting oil palm and pushing people into poverty

• Papua New Guinea: Women against further expansion of oil palm

2002

• Papua New Guinea: The power of mining corporations

• Papua New Guinea: The logging industry’s empty promises of job generation

• Papua New Guinea: Guns, drugs and logging in a disappearing paradise

• Papua New Guinea: Forests saved against logging and oil palm plantation

• Papua New Guinea: Diminishing forests, increasing suffering

2001

• Papua New Guinea: World Bank-funded Forestry and Conservation project without the people

• Papua New Guinea: Two opposite approaches to forest use

• Papua New Guinea: The World Bank once again in the forest

• Papua New Guinea: The impacts of British-promoted oil palm monocultures

• Papua New Guinea: Social and environmental destruction by logging

• Papua New Guinea: Incentives to oil palm plantations

• Papua New Guinea: God help its forests against these “custodians”!

2000

• Papua New Guinea: NGOs call for reform of forest industry

• Papua New Guinea: moratorium on new logging announced

• Papua New Guinea: From Australia with cyanide

• Papua New Guinea: Friends and foes of the logging ban

1999

• Papua New Guinea: the struggle of the Maisin indigenous people

• Papua New Guinea: tax breaks favour forest destruction

• Papua New Guinea: something need to change … fast!

• Papua New Guinea’s Rainforests Threatened

• Action for Papua New Guinea’s rainforests

1997

• Papua New Guinea: mining expansion causes unrest

Other Relevant Information

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  ADB and Smallholders Agriculture Projects in Papua New Guinea

  Posted on June 22, 2003

  Briefing Paper prepared by Lee Tan, Australian Conservation Foundation/Friends of the Earth Australia “We, the landowners are developing and will continue to develop OUR LAND on our own term. We therefore sternly warn all those parties...

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  Status of Implementation of Forest-Related Clauses in the CBD: An Independent Review & Recommendations for Action

  Posted on March 18, 2002

  Commissioned by the Global Forest Coalition This report is based on 21 country case studies, including Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech republic, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya,Malaysia, the Netherlands, New...

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  Papua New Guinea: Indigenous peoples lose their rights to investors

  Posted on June 29, 2010

  We are witnessing a global process of agribusiness expansion and land grabbing in the South. Through lease, concession, even purchase, corporations or foreign states take over large areas of farmland on a long-term basis to produce staple...

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Videos

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  Women raise their voices against tree plantations. Testimonies from Brazil, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea

  Posted on March 11, 2009

  By the World Rainforest Movement and Forest and Biodiversity Program of Friends of the Earth International Screenplay: Flavio Pazos Script: WRM International Secretariat Team Voices: Cecilia Carrère, Ana Filippini, Raquel Nuñez, Teresa...

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