PACIFIC: Call for Australia to ban illegal timber imports
Updated
The Australian Conservation Foundation has renewed its call for Australia to ban imports of illegally logged timber from the Asia Pacific region. The call comes in the wake of Papua New Guinea's new cabinet line-up. Prime MInister Sir Michael Somare has appointed Belden Namah Forestry Minister. Mr Namah is part owner of a land parcel which was granted a logging licence by the government earlier this year raising concerns of a conflict of interest.
Presenter: Barbara Heggen
Speakers: Anne Kajir, Executive Director of Papua New Guinea's Environmental Law Centre; Lee Tan, Australian Conservation Foundation
