Court bans logging on island’s sacred sites
13/5/08
The Kavieng District Court has banned logging on Tatau Island in New Ireland province. The ban came last week after two clans on the island complained that logging was threatening some of their sacred sites, including their burial grounds and their source of food. They claimed that logging was also endangering their environment, their river and marine life. The landowners of Tatau Island belong to Damok and Barbar clans.Restrained from logging are Tavak Investment Ltd, a purported landowner company owned by John Same and his brother Joseph Panga, the Niugini Forest Planning and Management Ltd and Vanimo Jaya Ltd.
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