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Serafina Silaitoga 12 February, 2021, 10:30 pm Navuniyevu villager Sakiasi Delana, left, with families and pine landowners of Navuniyevu Village in Bua have pleaded with government to give them what's theirs. Picture: SERAFINA SILAITOGA PINE forest landowners have called on the Ministry of Forestry to reinstate licences granted to private sawmillers to allow them to harvest over-planted areas. They claim the ministry issued notices two weeks ago to nine sawmillers on Vanua Levu, ordering them not to harvest pine in the areas. Speaking on behalf of the nine mataqali in Navuniyevu Village, Bua,...

December 30, 2020 11:15 am Minister for Forestry Osea Naiqamu [right]. The Fijian government has secured four woodchip shipments to China. The announcement was made by Minister for Forestry Osea Naiqamu in Labasa this morning. He says this is happening after a lapse of four years and the first in Fiji’s history to secure not one but four shipments. Article continues after advertisement Speaking to forestry stakeholders in Labasa, Naiqamu said the government is doing its best to rejuvenate the sector. He says to secure the shipment is one thing, and it’s another for stakeholders to put the...