The indigenous population in th
is region is opposing logging interests. There is now a large military build-up in the area to suppress this resistance. In 2001 there were 57 forest concession-holders in operation around the country and untold other forest ventures operating illegally. About 75% of West Papua is forest – now under threat from these logging operations. The rainforests within the combined West Papua/Papua New Guinea land mass are second in size only to those of the Amazon, making it ‘the lungs of Asia’.
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