Green Light/Hunstein Range History
Outline:
HR- Hunstein RangeGLT - Green Light TrustPNG - Papua New GuineaESP - East Sepik ProvinceLOA - Landowner AssociationESCOW - East Sepik Council of WomenBAHINEMOS - the people of Wagu, Igai, Gahom and InaruBERINEMOS - the people of Bitara, Kagiru and BegapukiPLEASE NOTE: All GLT (Green Light Trust) visits and patrols to the HR(Hunstein Range) have been either fully or partially financed by the travellers themselves. The royalties mentioned below are an annual 'thank you' or 'bekim' from GLT to the 6 HR villages with whom we have built the global kinship link. This 'thank you' is for the generous way the HR people have always looked after us and for the stories, pictures and learning about the forest and culture that they have given us.
In the last 3 years:
2009
- Seventeenth HR patrol (Serah Nerius & Simon Swale, GLT partners) to help prepare for the 2010 visit to UK. Patrol filmed by Christie Constantine of Virgin Unite.
2010
- PNG visit to UK of 5 HR delegates: Maui Wapio of Wagu, Raymond John of Bitara, Vero Wipu of Kagiru and Pamila Wahiyu of Yigai with Matthew Kaku Yafei returning as guide and visit leader
- Submit comments to RMA (Rainforest Management Alliance) on the PDD for their proposed REDD+ Carbon Trading project in the April Salumei area of ESP
2011
- Continue communications with RMA and also PNGFA, on the REDD+project for the Sepik
- Guide finalising of 2010 film, 'Footprints in the Forest'
- Form 'Rainforest Guardians' with partner agencies to explore helping forest dwellers prepare for REDD+ projects in PNG and worldwide
- Eighteenth HR patrol (Nigel Hughes) to see approval for film; ascertain level of carbon understanding; agree formal ambassadorship for GLT in future HR projects
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