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Corruption Threat to Pacific Island Forests
2016-03-21 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The vast rainforests of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean are crucial for environmental sustainability, survival of indigenous peoples and the wider goal of containing climate change. But forest degradation, driven primarily by excessive commercial logging, most of which is illegal, is a perpetual threat. PNG is now the world's top exporter of tropical timber, estimated at 3.8 million cubic metres in 2014. But an estimated 90 per cent of the formal trade...
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