Activists continue to halt logging ship loading in PNG
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Greenpeace activists are still preventing an Asian export ship from loading logs bound for China at a remote port on the Papua New Guinea south coast.
Our correspondent in PNG, Steve Marshall, reports four Greenpeace activists are still on top of the ships loading crane while other Greenpeace personnel painted anti-forestry slogans on logging barges.
The environmentalists closed down log loading operations yesterday with the help of local land owners who say the logging company is destroying their land.
Greenpeace says the logging operation belongs to Malaysian company Rimbunan Hijau- Rimbunan Hijau management rejects this.
The PNG Forest Industry Association can not confirm what company actually owns the logging operation.
