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Roman Luan is a community based NGO in Atauro
The Australian Conservation Foundation’s Asia Pacific Unit is working hard to achieve social and environmental justice in our region, focusing on two of our closest neighbours, Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea. The Asia Pacific Unit supports partner organisations in these countries in their struggles to balance development with protection of their natural resources.
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A forest in the Riau Province of Sumatra in Indonesia which was illegally logged and then burnt for oil palm plantation. Image: WALHI (Indonesian Environmental Forum)
Illegal logging undermines good governance and development efforts in several of Australia’s closest neighbours, especially Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. more »
Climate change is a human rights issue
Island life in the Carterets. Image by Pip Starr
Carteret Islands leader Ursula Rakova visited Melbourne this week to raise awareness about her people’s forced relocation to mainland Bougainville because of the worsening impacts of climate change. more »
Protecting forests as part of the global climate change effort
Tropical rainforests are important ecologically, socially, culturally, economically & in the fight against climate change. PNG photo: Lee Tan
Sir Nicholas Stern, the United Nations and the Australian and Indonesian governments are right to be worried about greenhouse gas emissions produced by the clearing of forests. more »
PNG Minister intervenes to stop oil palm mill
Untreated effluent from oil palm processing being pumped directly into a waterway
ACF and our partners in PNG have warmly welcomed the clear statement from PNG’s Agriculture Minister that a proposed oil palm processing mill should not be built near Kokoda in Oro Province. more »
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