They say that Papua New Guinea is the land of the unexpected and that’s exactly what researchers found in 1995. Scientists surveyed all things jumping, growing and breathing in the Kikori Basin, an area known as a biodiversity “hotspot”, and one of the most important areas of forest and wetland life in the Asia-Pacific […]
A Greenpeace team spent two weeks documenting life and conditions in three Papua New Guinea (PNG) logging concessions. We visited remote villages in Gulf and Western Provinces where logging companies Rimbunan Hijau (RH) and Turama Forest Industries (TFI, a Rimbunan Hijau group company) are felling ancient rainforests and abusing their workers.
Destruction and broken promises
Local people […]
There is a very real threat that the Rudd government’s proposed emissions trading scheme will only amount to more hot air – which would be disastrous for global warming. Greenpeace has made a submission to the federal government to make sure the scheme protects the interests of Australian households over big business. Of course, it […]
Greenpeace activists in the UK have been acquitted of criminal damage by arguing that the coal-fired power station they shut down was causing more property damage than they were. A jury has let them off despite the fact that they painted the Prime Ministers name down the side of a chimney at Kingsnorth power station.
Kingsnorth […]
My name is Daniel Holland, I’m a freelance artist. My Dad is from Abau, Central Province and Mum from Popondetta, Northern Province, Papua New Guinea.I live in Port Moresby and am a volunteer activist with Greenpeace. My first action was in the Pacific Ocean a few months ago, campaigning on the overfishing of tuna in […]
Kila Oumabe, Beseremen Clan, (pictured at left with hands raised) is a mother of three daughters and three adopted children. She is at the frontline of impacts from Turama Forest Industries’ rainforest logging in Papua New Guinea.
Kila has visited the Esperanza in PNG, as a representative of all the women living in the 1.7 million […]
On 3 September, four Greenpeace activists stopped a ship loading piles of logged timber from Papua New Guinea’s Paradise Forests. Their peaceful action was supported by many local people who sang and danced as they watched from boats.
The activists, who were harnessed to a loading crane, stayed on the ship for three days.
Raoni, from New […]
Professor Ross Garnaut - economist, government adviser, and climate policy reviewer - has today given his pronouncement about the way Australia should tackle climate change. Given that his last report heralded disastrous climate change impacts such as the loss of the Great Barrier Reef and the melting of the polar ice caps if the global […]