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Comment on Will PNG really stop log exports in 2025? Part two by Gregg Amene
['Colin Filer', 'Andrew Anton Mako', 'Stephen Howes', 'Michael Kabuni', 'Henry Ivarature', 'Kingtau Mambon']
Comments for Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Under the terms of the 1991 Forestry Act, the majority of log exports, and most of the total log harvest, should now be coming from concessions based on Forest Management Agreements (FMAs), which are agreements whereby customary landowners transfer their timber harvesting rights to the state so that the state can pass them on to a logging company. The second reason why FMA concessions account for such a small proportion of current log exports is that more than half of these exports have been coming from old concessions that were granted before the current Forestry Act came into effect in 1992.