Posted on 09/04/2008 5:37:52 AM PDT by Abathar
PORT MORESBY (AFP) - Environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday that its activists had boarded a logging ship in Papua New Guinea to prevent it exporting timber to China.
Greenpeace Australia Pacific said four activists climbed on a loading crane aboard the ship Harbour Gemini at Paia Inlet on PNG's southwest coast to stop logs being loaded.
Greenpeace argues the ship is being operated by Malaysian-owned logging company Rimbunan Hijau, which it accuses of breaking PNG's forestry laws.
"We need to urgently protect these ancient forests to save our climate," Greenpeace campaigner Sam Moko said in a statement.
"Greenpeace is asking the Papua New Guinea government to establish a moratorium on any new large-scale logging concessions or extensions."
The activists travelled to PNG on the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza, which was involved in a campaign harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean early this year.
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Some of the tribesmen in Papua New Guinea still eat people, don’t they? Time for a local BBQ, maybe.
what’s up with the ship’s crew ...they let four envirowhackos take over their ship?
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