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Jan
19
2012

Logs don’t lie: foreign corporations are pillaging Papua New Guinea

POSTED BY aharris

Originally posted on Act Now! Blogpost by Hannah Brooks, VICE media, January 10, 2012 Papua New Guinea is currently experiencing what may be the most brazenly illegal land grab since its colonial days. Foreign corporations—specifically, logging companies—are allegedly falsifying signatures, paying off police, and lying to the government about their intentions to cut down every [...]

Jan
17
2012

The future we want? Between hope and despair on the road to the Rio Earth Summit

POSTED BY aharris

Blogpost by Daniel Mittler – January 17, 2012 I have been up at night a lot over the last ten days thinking about the future. You do not have to feel bad for me as the reason was a joyful one: I was carrying around my new born daughter. As I stared at her fresh [...]

Jan
03
2012

My Christmas wish: responsible fishing in the Pacific

POSTED BY aharris

Blogpost by Sari Tolvanen – December 20, 2011 at 13:31 My job as a Greenpeace oceans campaigner has sent me to lots of places in the past ten years- on land and at sea. Last month, I was in Manila, Philippines to meet with the president of Frabelle fishing corporation, one of the largest Filipino fishing companies. [...]