2007

• Woodlark’s islanders demand a halt to oil palm plantations
• Life can be hard for women in oil palm plantations
• Women most affected by oil palm plantations

2006

• Large-scale Logging and Human Rights Abuses
• Local NGOs challenge World Bank loan for oil palm scheme

2005

• Papua New Guinea: Rainforest Alliance undermining forest conservation efforts

2004

• First Contact in Papua New Guinea: A clash of world views
• Customary Landowners' declaration on logging, mining and oil palm plantations
• Melanesia: Community-Based Ecoforestry Protecting Forests

2003

• Oil palm "joint venture" for the benefit of rich companies
• Women's rights undermined by Placer Dome gold mine
• Malaysian companies logging out the forest
• Environmental groups urge Primer Minister to take action against logging project
• Small-scale sawmilling a good way forward

2002

• Forests saved against logging and oil palm plantation
• The logging industry's empty promises of job generation
• Diminishing forests, increasing suffering
• Guns, drugs and logging in a disappearing paradise
• The power of mining corporations

2001

• World Bank-funded Forestry and Conservation project without the people
• The impacts of British-promoted oil palm monocultures
• The World Bank once again in the forest
• Incentives to oil palm plantations
• God help its forests against these "custodians"!
• Two opposite approaches to forest use
• Social and environmental destruction by logging

2000

• NGOs call for reform of forest industry
• From Australia with cyanide
• Friends and foes of the logging ban
• Moratorium on new logging announced

1999

• The struggle of the Maisin indigenous people
• Something need to change ... fast!
• Action for Papua New Guinea's rainforests
• Papua New Guinea's Rainforests Threatened
• Tax breaks favour forest destruction

1997

• Mining expansion causes unrest

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Letter to the World Bank Board asking not to approve any more loans for oil palm plantations and processing - March 2006

• The Untouchables. Rimbunan Hijau’s world of forest crime & political patronage
  by Greenpeace - February 2004

• Oro Landowners Declaration on Large Scale Commercial Extraction of Natural Resources and the Expansion of Oil Palm Nucleus Estates
  Popondetta - Oro Province, Papua New Guinea - 12th March 2004
• Greasy palms - The social and ecological impacts of large-scale oil palm plantation development in Southeast Asia
  Friends of the Earth report - March 2004

• Greasy palms - Palm Oil, The Environment and Big Business
  Friends of the Earth report - March 2004

• Fighting to ensure a future for the people of East New Britain by protecting their environment from the damage caused by uncontrolled logging. Oxfam Comunity Aid Abroad

• Action Alerts:
  - World Bank Fails to Maintain Logging Moratorium (December 2001)
  - Conserve Papua New Guinea Rainforests Through Community Based Eco-Forestry (August 2000)
  - Moratorium on new logging announced (January 2000)

• Environmental and Social Impact Assessment of Logging Operations in the Vanimo Timber Area, Sadaun Province, Papua New Guinea
  by Forests Monitor - May 1999

• Environmental and Social Impact Assessment of Logging Operations in the West Coast of Manus Area, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.
  by Cain Lomai Pwesei 

• General Overview and Considerations of the Kulu-Dagi and Inland Kove Oil Palm Project, the likely potential environmental impacts, West New Britain Province.
  by Stephen Keu, Environmental Planner

• Environmental impacts of Oil Palm plantation cultivation on people, soil, water and forests ecosystems.
  by Stephen Talania Keu, MSc I .

LINKS

Tropical Ecology and Biodiversity Digest archives
www.wcs.org/home/wild/asia/686/701/

Eco-Forestry Forum
http://www.ecoforestry.org.pg/ 

Rimbunan Hijau Watch PNG
http://www.rimbunan.forests.org.au/

Post Courier News
http://www.postcourier.com.pg/