PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Forest Industry Grievances
After years of windfall profits and few if any controls on their
actions, the multinational timber industry PNG is deeply
threatened by government actions to rein in their excesses and
promote a more sustainable forestry industry (albeit it
industrial and still ecologically diminishing). The timber
industry has thrown down the gauntlet: they will only stop
exporting logs and do in-country processing if they are given
access to virtually all remaining potential production forests.
Additionally, they have shown they will use their considerable
political clout to block any efforts to reform the exploitative
timber arrangements currently in place.