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Report Says Loggers Declaring Losses But Increasing Exports

Post Courier Online

February 12, 2019

A high-end investigative report has revealed that despite decades of operating in PNG, logging companies barely declare profits. Furthermore, the report reveals an odd financial contradiction where loggers have reported doubling their losses while continuing to increase their exports of tropical timber. In a comprehensive report furnished by renowned international researching group The Oakland Institute, new evidence of financial misreporting and grand scale tax evasion in the PNG logging industry have been unearthed.

Think Tank Report Highlights Tax Puzzle in PNG Logging Sector

ABC Radio

September 6, 2018

Two years ago the Oakland Institute published a report on illegal logging in Papua New Guinea, and warned that millions of dollars in taxes were being lost because of financial misreporting.

Tanzania’s Maasai Losing Ground to Tourism in the Name of Conservation, Investigation Finds

Mongabay

May 11, 2018

The government of Tanzania is casting aside Maasai communities to make way for lucrative high-end safari tourism and hunting, says the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank, in a report published May 10.

Tanzania Evicted Maasai People and Burned Their Homes for Safari Tourism, Group Says

Time

May 10, 2018

(KAMPALA, Uganda) — Tens of thousands of Tanzania’s ethnic Maasai people are homeless after the government burned their houses to keep the savannah open for tourism benefiting two foreign safari companies, a U.S.-based policy think tank charged Thursday.

Ethiopian Indigenous Leader Okello Akway Ochalla is Free!

Norway News

Oakland, CA—On February 14, 2018, Mr. Okello Akway Ochalla, an indigenous Anuak leader, Norwegian citizen, and the former Governor of the Gambella region of Ethiopia, was released after being held as a prisoner on trumped up charges in an Ethiopian jail for nearly four years.
Carbon Colonialism: Failure of Green Resources’ Carbon Offset Project in Uganda

World Rainforest Movement

Green Resources – a Norwegian tree plantation, carbon offset, wood products, and renewable energy company – champion themselves as a good corporate citizen. They claim to have planted more trees in Africa than any other private company in the last ten years, and to have invested over 125 million US dollars in tree planting, as well as providing...
OPINION: Rainforest or the Illegal Logger – Who is Really Under Threat in Papua New Guinea?

Pacific Islands News Association

Frederic Mousseau

“The forestry industry is on the brink of disaster” warned Bob Tate, the head of the Papua New Guinea Forest Industries Association (PNGFIA) on November 22, 2017. According to Tate, a spokesperson for the logging companies clear cutting...
Agroecology vs. the Corporate Take Over of African Agriculture

Trees: Journal of the International Tree Foundation

Since the 2008 food price crisis, we have been told over and over that Africa needs foreign investors in agriculture to ‘develop’ the continent; that Africa needs a ‘Green Revolution’, more synthetic fertilisers, and genetically modified crops in order to meet the challenges of hunger and poverty. Yet, millions of Africans...
Papua New Guinea Subsistence Farmers Fight Back Against Foreign Corporate Land Grab

Atlanta Black Star

Few westerners could even begin to wrap their brains around the traditional lifestyles of the small farmers of Papua New Guinea. Though some do make a nominal income selling small-scale cash crops like coconut and cocoa from their family gardens, these predominantly Black farmers commonly feed their families through subsistence agriculture,...
Who is Really Responsible for Collapse of Zimbabwe’s Health Services?

IPS-Inter Press Service

On October 22, 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had removed Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador following outrage and concerns raised by his appointment just two days before.