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Anuatu

Souths unhappy >ver logging

'ver 40 youth representatives of Vanuatu’s timber-rich rromango island have questioned the government, foreign unpanies and custom landowners for rushing into logging )erations without asking them for their say.

In a statement they say their island belongs to the people today and tomorrow and they are angry that neither they >r the women have been consulted in previous and current

?ging developments on Erromango.

The group criticised their elders and the government for unging into business without first evaluating maximum nefit to the landowners, and taking appropriate measures to reguard the island’s vegetation and environment for future nerations.

They have also questioned the usefulness of the government irning against the destruction of sacred or “taboo” places on romango after the logging operations had started.