Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea Begins Commission Of Inquiry Into Rainforest Land Grabs

Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea Begins Commission Of Inquiry Into Rainforest Land Grabs   Papua New Guinea has launched a Commission of Inquiry into foreign land grabs of pristine, indigenous owned primary rainforests for clearcut logging and supposed oil palm development. PNG has the world’s third largest rainforests, but sadly industrial logging and oil palm are booming, and large, intact old rainforest ecosystems are dwindling fast. An entrenched and voracious Malaysian timber-mafia has...

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