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A logging truck carries timber along a deep road that cuts through ancient forest in Lake Murray, Papua New Guinea (September 2005).
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There are several reasons for the astounding level of destruction in the Paradise Forests:
The world’s grasping demand for cheap timber products, such as plywood, lumber, furniture and paper drives the greedy corporations that profit by logging the Paradise Forests.
Around the world, governments allow imports of illegal timber from the Paradise Forests, feeding demand and ensuring ready markets for logging companies. Within the region, corruption and bribery among companies and government officials is rife.
While the logging companies and corrupt governments profit from illegal and destructive logging, landowners suffer abuse and loss of their forest for sustenance and their own ecologically sustainable industries.
- illegal and destructive logging
- resulting forests fires, like those which burned uncontrolled in Indonesia in 1997-1998
- land clearing for oil palm plantations and agriculture
The world’s grasping demand for cheap timber products, such as plywood, lumber, furniture and paper drives the greedy corporations that profit by logging the Paradise Forests.
Around the world, governments allow imports of illegal timber from the Paradise Forests, feeding demand and ensuring ready markets for logging companies. Within the region, corruption and bribery among companies and government officials is rife.
While the logging companies and corrupt governments profit from illegal and destructive logging, landowners suffer abuse and loss of their forest for sustenance and their own ecologically sustainable industries.
