Fuelwood and other Traditional Wood Usage In PNG, outside of the 10 % of land area under possible legal concession, there is much other wood produced, which is unaccounted for in any country statistical database, and which does not attract any taxation charges. FAO in 1976, with a then PNG population of some 2 million people, estimated that annual fuelwood usage alone would be some 3.7 million cubic metres. Other traditional uses of wood including village house building and canoe construction could easily account for another 500,000 cubic metres of wood annually,
Photo left Cloudy Bay Timber Area 2005. Photo credit Dick McCarthy.
Markham Valley fuel wood A. mangium. Photo credit Dick McCarthy 1995.
Construction of Lakatoi Papa Lea Lea north of Port Moresby. – double hulled sailing watercraft Hiri Trade. Photo Credit Dick McCarthy 2009.
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