"The untouchables - Rimbunan Hinjau's (RH) world of forest crime and political patronage" report focuses on the impacts the company is having on timber operations in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Equatorial Guinea, Russia, New Zealand, Soloman Islands and Vanuatu.
Describes the problems large-scale industrial enterprises like logging and plantations cause for families and communities in the Solomon Islands. The report reinforces the imporatance of village based development in the rebuilding of the nation.
Under pressure from the recent collapse of Asian log prices, governments throughout the Pacific are reexamining their approach to managing their forests. Such a review is timely – past forest policies, although they may have generated critical
government revenue, also resulted in environmental damage and social dislocation and unrest.
Tuna is one of the world's favourite fish, but global tuna stocks are under threat. Illegal and unregulated fishing in the Pacific is depleting tuna stocks.
Greenpeace welcomes today’s decision by Indonesia’s Forest Minister, Mr. Zulkifli Hasan, to temporarily stop paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) from destroying the carbon-rich forest peatlands of Indonesia’s Kampar Peninsula, Sumatra.
Following a week of potentially crippling budgetary reviews and a visit from US President Barack Obama,Japan's whaling fleet crept out of port at 10am today (12noon AEDT).
