Australian Broadcasting Corporation: An Australian-led logging company in Papua New Guinea has been involved in arrangements which have seen more than 2 million hectares of land, much of it pristine forest, taken out of customary ownership. Land in PNG is almost sacred but over the past eight years it has been under assault from a land scandal that has seen 11 per cent of the country leased under controversial Special Agricultural and Business Leases. The leases are meant to be for small agricultural developments, not for logging,...
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-14/an-australians-involved-in-png-land-scandal/4311902
Enclosure: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/kwila-logs-piled-for-export-in-turubujpg/4308150
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