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Bua Urban Youth Network (BUYN). Picture: FACEBOOK The Bua Urban Youth Network (BUYN) hopes good sense prevails over issues between pine landowners and Fiji Pine Ltd. A meeting between the two parties held this week in Labasa has resulted in the company demanding to revoke harvesting licences of sawmillers in the North working on overplanted areas. The landowners have refused to release the 268.27 hectares of overplanted area. In a statement, the BUYN has described the situation as an added threat to the landowners. “BUYN would also like to call on UN agencies and development partners tha...

Serafina Silaitoga 19 January, 2021, 8:30 pm Sawmillers in Vanua Levu harvesting pine in overplanted areas may have their licences revoked after Fiji Pine Ltd, through their lawyers, demanded for such action. This was made known in a letter addressed to the Ministry of Forestry and handed out to landowners during a meeting in Labasa yesterday. The letter, from Young and Associates (Fiji Pine Ltd’s lawyers), stated they had been instructed that some sawmillers had started logging operations in the overplanted area of 268.27 hectares. “We are further instructed to demand, on our client�...