The Wire

Greenpeace has sailed into the middle of a controversy over logging and land in Papua New Guinea. Activists from the environmental NGO have moored their large boat off the coast of East New Britain where a logging operation is taking place, and they’re determined to give the loggers a hard time. It was recently revealed that the logging company was paying the country’s police force to provide security at the site, where some traditional owners have been protesting.

Experts say that this is just one of many similar disputes across the country, where land is being leased to logging companies without the unanimous agreement of the traditional landowners.