17 Feb 2022

Call for reform in Papua New Guinea forestry sector

From , 6:00 am on 17 February 2022

An NGO in Papua New Guinea wants to see across the board reforms in the country's forestry sector.

The Centre for Environment Law and Community Rights, or CELCOR, wants to start with police wo moonlight as security for logging companies being sacked from the force.

This follows the killing of two landowners and a policeman at a forestry site in East Sepik last month.

Those deaths have sparked a parliamentary call for an inquiry into police staff working for logging companies as security.

CELCOR's Peter Bosip told Don Wiseman what had happened in East Sepik.

Logging piles on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.

Logging piles on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. Photo: Global Witness