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According to @guardian, #China is the major buyer of the world’s illegal timber, especially from Pacific nations like Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. https://t.co/fB5z9Wb0i1
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) June 1, 2021
More than 90% of wood exports from PNG, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu end up in China. Public information about who owns the wood on the ships is difficult to find.
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) June 1, 2021
Much of PNG’s exported timber – worth more than US$620m in 2019 – comes from special agricultural business leases, the controversial land leases which were declared illegal in 2016 but mostly continued to operate regardless.
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) June 1, 2021
“What we imported is all legal, we usually buy the timber from Malaysians in PNG and Solomon Islands. About the situation of [illegal logging] – I don’t know much about it.”
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) June 1, 2021
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“Dozens of China-backed & funded projects in Africa-many of them developed as part of BRI-hv faced opposition fr communities&environmentalists who accuse thr developers of destroying ecosystems in their pursuit of commodities like oil, metals and timber.” https://t.co/sJJT04yhdZ
— Sari Arho Havrén (@SariArhoHavren) May 30, 2021
https://t.co/rolq09g6Jv https://t.co/KsVtE5jjnr pic.twitter.com/vCtdEs95Au
— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) June 1, 2021
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