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oggers from Turama Forest Industries cut down a tree with a chainsaw in the ‘Turama extension’ logging concession, Gulf Province. These forests are being felled by Turama Forest Industries – a group company of Malaysian logging giant Rimbunan Hijau. Photo by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for Greenpeace.
February 2, 2022
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Papua New Guinea has been the world’s largest tropical timber exporter since 2014. More than 70% of the timber produced in the country is considered illegal. The second episode in the New Guinea series of Mongabay Explores covers the struggles faced by Indigenous communities in Papua New Guinea to protect their customary land rights, and one governor’s perspective on how to change that conversation.

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